PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Henry Beston (1888-1968) was an American writer and naturalist, best known as the author of The Outermost House (1928). He also wrote Herbs and The Earth (1935), The St. Lawrence (1942), Northern Farm: A Chronicle of Maine (1948), and several books for children. Allan Burns earned a Ph.D. in English literature at Penn State University and taught at university level for a number of years before moving into the nonprofit sector. He has edited many books, including Phoebe Snetsinger's Birding on Borrowed Time (2003) and three major anthologies of haiku: Montage (2010), Haiku in English (2013), and Where the River Goes (2013). His own collections of haiku include Distant Virga (2011) and Earthlings (2015), and he has published many articles and reviews. A longtime vegan and animal rights activist, he works as a senior editor for the Foundation to Support Animal Protection and lives in the Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico.
