Haiku of the Dead by David Nell


Haiku of the Dead
Title : Haiku of the Dead
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ISBN : 1495262286
ISBN-10 : 9781495262289
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 48
Publication : First published January 20, 2014

Poetry to eat your brains. "Haiku of the Dead" is an anthology that pieces together a warm-hearted story of guts and gore. Told through the imagistic language of haiku, every flesh-ripping moment of the zombie apocalypse is covered, from dawn to demise. Thirty-five narrators take readers through infested streets and graveyards from the points of view of both survivors and the undead, with haiku from authors around the world.

Haiku of the Dead Reviews

  • K.R. Smith

    As a disclaimer, I have mention that I am one of the contributors to this anthology.

    I also have to mention that I'm not really into zombies, but the challenge of writing a haiku about them interested me.

    The book is rather short of content - I think it would have been better to have more entries, but the anthologist can only work with what they receive, so perhaps there were not a lot of submissions. There were a number of good ones, but there were also several that did not follow the 5-7-5 pattern requested, and some of them were a bit forced. I did notice that, as another reviewer mentioned, the haiku were arranged in a way that hinted at a story - or at least a time line, so the anthologist did do a bit more work here than it might appear.

    If you really have a thing for zombies, pick it up (too bad there's not a cheaper Kindle version). Perhaps they'll drop the price a little, too.