For the Seasons, 9781923106567
Paperback
Rediscovered haikus reveal nature’s beauty and transience through delicate observations.

For the Seasons

Haikus

$26.40

  • Paperback

    118 pages

  • Release Date

    1 February 2026

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Summary

Beverley Farmer is one of our finest prose writers, but her new book, For the Seasons: Haikus, is likely to make her reputation as a poet too. The manuscript of For the Seasons, composed over twenty-five years ago, was rediscovered by the critic and scholar Lyn Jacobs after Farmer’s death in 2018. The collection has never been published in full before. It joins the three prose works by Farmer Giramondo has now brought back into print: the novels Alone and The Se…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781923106567
ISBN-10:1923106562
Author:Beverley Farmer
Publisher:Giramondo Publishing Co
Imprint:Giramondo Publishing Co
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:118
Release Date:1 February 2026
Weight:160g
Dimensions:15mm x 210mm x 149mm
About The Author

Beverley Farmer

Beverley Farmer (1941–2018) was the author of four collections of short stories, including Milk, which won the NSW Premier’s Award for Fiction; the novels Alone, The Seal Woman and The House in the Light, which was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award; and the writer’s notebook, A Body of Water. Giramondo first published The Bone House, Farmer’s collection of essays on the life of the body and the life of the mind in 2005, and This Water: Five Tales in 2017: it was longlisted for the Stella Prize.

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