Janice Bostok is undoubtedly one of the greatest English-speaking haijin – haiku masters – in the Western world. She is also one of the earliest Australian practitioners of haiku and its related forms – tanka, renga and haibun. With some fifteen books to her credit, her work has also been published and cited widely in the Americas, Europe and Japan. A long-standing member of the Brisbane-based Paper Wasp haiku group and co-editor of Paper Wasp: a journal of Australian haiku, Janice has