Henry Beissel is a poet, playwright, fiction writer, translator and editor with over 30 books published, 20 of them collections of poetry that include his epic Seasons of Blood, the lyrical Stones to Harvest, and his celebration of Canada, Cantos North, reprinted for our 150th anniversary last year in a bilingual edition with a brilliant French translation by Arlette Francière. His most recent publication is a book of 364 haiku (plus 1 tanka), What if Zen Gardens... (Guernica), an astonishing collection from the poet who is considered "a master of the long poem."