Praise and Poems
Helen has another strength in her humour: you will find the most hilarious story, set in haibun form, that highlights cultural differences, via tales of the most dramatic American legends being confused with British TV series The Prisoner, set in a small Welsh village. The mood changes with her ‘Summer is a Hospital’ which reveals the vulnerability in Helen’s formative years, with killer lines: bikini-line nerves… with some fumbling kid… to check into Summer. Strangely this is her most comfortable place as a writer: letting us know she’s been there too; and made mistakes alongside the best of us: that we’re simply not alone in doing this.
Alan Summers, (Embassy of Japan’s roving Japan-UK haiku poet-in-residence)
Helen can do it all.
Saša Važić (Simply Haiku, co-owner and co-editor)
We all have our ‘armour’ but Buckingham has raised her visor to allow us a glimpse into her life. Pain or pleasure — whatever you find in Armadillo Basket —it is all part of Buckingham and the hard outer protects the softer inner. With this collection she is certainly ‘Moving On Up’.
Colin Stewart Jones (Notes from the Gean, Managing Editor)
Review
Prune Juice review by Liam Wilkinson, Aug 2011
Award
Honourable Mention in the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Award 2011:
pink dusk–
a cherry petal hovers
over the cow pat
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