The idea is to write a haiku that reviews a book you loved, hated or haven’t read yet. The winning entries of the Everybody's a Critic Haiku contest were written in April 2007, during B.C. Book and Magazine Week, at Pulpfiction Books in Vancouver.

cop out to collar

a whisky priest down south

the pope’s not amused

(The Power and the Glory)

I have a crush on

your mom, is a book on his

shelf I haven’t read

(Poem for a Discriminating Reader)

Am I bad as that?

Dan Brown reads the Code reviews

Concludes: I suck

(The Da Vinci Code)

He is so alone

the goat does not add to the tale

He dies of boredom

(The Little Prince)

Love for eighteen years

Four kids later and no ring

She wasn’t so smart

(By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept)

Sitting in my hut

Nothing but the city gone

God, I’m really high

(Desolation Angels - Kerouac)

Africa and sweat

Cigarettes after nightmares

Foreigner at home

(Scribbling the Cat)

two tramps and a clown

wait for No Show in the dark

They loved it in France!

(Waiting for Godot)

The winners made their appearance in the print version of issue 65.

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