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LAST TRAIN HOME is an international collection of haiku and related poetry about trains and train travel. Edited by award-winning Canadian poet and children's book author Jacqueline Pearce, the anthology features close to 600 haiku, tanka, rengay, and haiku sequences by 193 poets from 22 different countries. REVIEWS For those of us who love them, trains are a perfect subject for a poetry anthology. The many styles of freight and passenger cars roll and rumble through our lives, connecting the long past with meaningful stops along the way to here and now. A combination of sociability and solitude, train travel is poetry itself. Last Train Home is a procession of loving glimpses of the world from a moving platform. We are moved. This anthology, containing nearly 600 poems from 193 of the best contemporary writers of English-language haiku and tanka, reflects the railroad realities of twenty-two countries. The reader is offered vicarious views of this simultaneously old fashioned and of the moment means of transportation across five continents. steam train whistle the aroma of Grandpa’s pipe tobacco -Leanne Mumford prairie darkness— what a child's breath reveals on the train window -Chad Lee Robinson night train— flat cars hauling moonlight -Keith Polette - John Stevenson, Managing Editor, The Heron’s Nest Exciting, wonderful, transportive. Amazing haiku adventures on the Last Train Home. Acclaimed poet and children’s book author, Jacqueline (Jacquie) Pearce, has woven together haiku, tanka and rengay capturing unforgettable train encounters from across the globe. The best train poets share their haiku moments. Whether emerging from a train tunnel, listening to the rumble of passing boxcars, having encounters with strangers or seeing reflections in a train window, this anthology captures extraordinary moments made simple through the art of haiku. A must buy for anyone