Drinking with Li Bai: 100 Haiku from China and India

Author: Drumheller, Doc
Publication date: 14/06/2022
Imprint: Cold Hub Press
Pages: 136
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780473619985

Drinking With Li Bai features one hundred haiku composed by New Zealand poet Doc Drumheller while he was visiting Enshi, Guangzhou, Guizhou, Suiyang, Shengze, Shanghai, and Beijing in China, and Odisha, Bhubaneswar, Kolkata, New Delhi, Varanasi, Agra, Bodh Gaya, and Allahabad in India. On his travels Doc Drumheller has represented the Waimakariri District as a Cultural Ambassador to Enshi in a Sister City Cultural Exchange. He was appointed New Zealand Director of the Silk Road Poetry Project, and has represented New Zealand at international poetry festivals in China and India. Haiku from this collection were selected for Orongohau Best New Zealand Poems 2018 and 2020.