In Memoriam

Bill Wyatt
1942— 2016

Bill Wyatt was born during World War II in England. A student of Soto Zen, he lived the monastic life in the early 1970s at Throssel Hole Priory in Northumberland before returning to his work as a gardener.

Bill was active in small press literary circles, publishing Wind Blown Cloud (1969), Poems from the Third Planet (1976), Cottage Haiku (n.d.) and other limited edition books.

Before I was born
washing jade in muddy water
I knew nothing else
B. W.

Bill Wyatt at Haibun Today

Ancestral Voices on Kos
Cicada Immortals
Dragon's Breath & Mountain Madness
Homeless in the Universe
Memory Lozenges
Spring Ephemerals

Washing Jade in Muddy Water—an interview

Books:
Poems from the Third Planet (1976)
Cottage Haiku
Wind Blown Cloud (1969)