© 2011 Allan Brown

Allan Brown's first publication, in May, 1962, was of two haiku in the Canadian journal Mountain. He has published two book-length collections of haiku — What Day Is It? (Far Field Press, 2004) and a penny in the grass (Ekstasis Editions, 2006).He is a member of Haiku Canada and the pacifi-kana haiku group, as well as the Federation of B.C. Writers and the League of Canadian Poets.

Allan Brown: "blackberries brings together a selection of haiku I have composed since I went for a walk in the woods in the summer of 1958 and met some blackberries, and wrote them a poem — or maybe they wrote a poem for me."