anemones by C. X. Turner

“C. X. Turner can be counted upon to bring refreshing originality and invention to the haikai arts, weaving mesmerizing tapestries through charged words and evocative moments, while deploying rich symbology, histories, and archetype. In this powerful, eloquent chapbook of ten unforgettable poems, readers will find much to identify with in these tight, imagistic depictions, and they may well help us each to realize we are not alone in our struggles. No poet I can think of utilizes yugen and ma with quite the skill or panache as Turner does here, and elsewhere, so impressively.”

— Jerome Berglund

“If haiku is the art of capturing the ephemeral, C.X. Turner succeeds in a series of poems at turn meditative and surreal. There is throughout an accepting of the vicissitudes of life, and in so doing, seeing under its veil. A poet with a subtle hand, Turner’s work is always worth a read.”

— Pippa Phillips

About the Author:

C. X. Turner writes poems about dandelions, frozen fingers, and frogs. She is a social worker and observer of life, rediscovering her creativity and always making space on her bookshelves for more. She enjoys experimenting with Japanese short-forms and her poems and artwork have been published in over 100 journals and anthologies, with three poems Touchtone-nominated in 2022. Turner is part of the Wales Haiku Journal team and author of climbing frozen water (Origami Poems Project, 2023) and the upcoming publication Building Sandcastles, co-authored with James Welsh (Literary Revelations, 2023).