Bøker av Helen May Williams

Lucid, linguistically dextrous, and woven through with Welsh phrases, and words and passages in French, this exquisitely observed sequence of haiku and haibun was written during lockdown, though only refers to Covid elliptically. There is nothing obvious here-instead there are connections-with nature, with relationships, with what is lost and what is saved.

Part novel, part biography, June creates a image of its central figure through diaries and letters.

Growing from a year-long commitment to write one haiku a day, Catstrawe ranges through family history and female relationships, the stimulation of travel and the inspiration to found in the immediate environment, politics and the world situation, and the experience of living with cancer. This is a book about living life to the full. -- Cinnamon Pr