From the haikukai circles of British Columbia's internment camps to the seminal Canadian anthologies edited by George Swede, Dorothy Howard and André Duhaime, and Marshall Hryciuk, to the avant-garde elements of Gregory Betts’s Haikube, and Gary Barwin and derek beaulieu's frogments in the frag pool, Terry Ann Carter has given haiku a wide sweep in the pages of Haiku in Canada. Featuring over 175 poets, including translated poems from French Canada, her labour over a decade has resulted in a tour de force of history and poetry.

Terry Ann Carter was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and moved to Canada in 1965. After earning degrees in English and Music, and a graduate degree in Education, she taught language arts from kindergarden to college. Her first book of poems (Waiting for Julia, Third Eye Press, 1999) chronicled the Chernobyl disaster. Her second collection, Transplanted, was published by Borealis Press, 2006. An international award winning haikuist, Carter partcipated in the Basho Festival, Ueno, Japan, and served Haiku Canada as Vice President for four years. A collection of small poems, such green, (pendas poets, 2005) and road trip: more latte than turquoise from ottawa to santa fe,(counting coup press new mexico) were published in limited hand made editions and exhibited in International Book Art Fairs. In the summer of 2005, Carter was an instructor at the Teachers' Training Program, Dongzhou International Education Exchange Center, Haimen City, China. Carter was the Random Acts of Poetry poet for Ottawa 2005/2006/2007.

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Terry Ann Carter’s book is a revelation. I can only slap my forehead and cry, “Why didn’t we have something like this earlier!” Fun and involving, a potpourri of carefully researched history, key documents and poems, and personal memoir, Haiku in Canada is must-read for everyone interested in the evolution of North American haiku.
~ Charles Trumbull former president of the Haiku Society of America former editor of Modern Haiku