Travels with Myself: Haiku from the Road

By Joachim Matschoss

The haiku that punctuate Joachim Matschoss' travels work as luminous mile-markers, cryptic road signs and legends on maps that trail off into myth and legend.

Matschoss understands that the language of intimacy between humans extends to interactions with landscape, history, animals and weather. These haiku find the sum of their many parts in a palpable immediacy and longing.

-Anthony Lawrence

Matschoss devotes himself to an ancient art form that captures the moment before it escapes, and he does it with humour, insight, whimsy, a keen ear, and a sharp eye. In publishing so many haiku, he shares his unique take on the world. Reading them, you may be inspired to create and share yours.

-Arnold Zable

Travels with Myself is a perfect title for this brilliant Haiku collection by theatre-maker, poet and playwright, Joachim Matschoss. A busy life is hauled back again and again to quiet moments - to pictures in rich words.

-Irish poet, Terry McDonagh

What is never lost in Travels with Myself is the primacy of experience and the direct way of finding its expression. These haiku are clear-eyed, meditative and full of surprises.

-Frank Rullow

This book is a phantasmagoria of words beautifully crafted to engage the senses of the reader. As one turns each page, words fall into place, and the journey begins through the neon-lit streets of the poet's mind. He entices us into his reality festooned with irony, futility and an acceptance of life with all its surprises. Truly a travel book for those that rarely leave or have never left home even when they travel.

-Mark Ulyseas

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1643244019
• ISBN13: 9781643244013
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Notion Press, Inc
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"