The following have been a source of inspiration, some the lesser, some greater:
- Autumn Wind Haiku, Selected Poems of Kobayashi Issa, Lewis Mackenzie
- Basho, The Complete Haiku, Matsuo Basho, Jane Reichold (translator)
- Because Of The Rain, A Collection Of Korean Zen Poems, Companions For The Journey, White Pine Press
- Book Of Tea, The, Kakuko Okakura
- Clouds Should Know Me By Now (The), Buddhist Poet Monks of China, Red Pine and Mike O’Connor (editors.), Wisdom Publications
- Haiku – the British Museum, David Cobb (editor).
- Haiku Animals – the British Museum, Mavis Pilbeam (editor).
- Haiku Garden, A, Stephen Adiss with Fumiko & Akira Yamamoto
- Haiku Journey, A, Matsuo Basho, Dorothy Britton (translator)
- Haiku Master Buson, Companions For The Journey, White Pine Press
- Heaven My Blanket, Earth My Pillow, Poems from the Sung Dynasty, China, Yang Wan Li, Companions For The Journey, White Pine Press
- Hsin Hsin Ming, Verses On The Faith-Mind, SengTs’an, Third Zen Patriarch, Richard B. Clarke (translator)
- Mountain Tasting, Zen Haiku Of Santoka Taneda
- Narrow Road To The Deep North and Other Travel Sketches, The, Matsuo Basho, Noboyuki Yuasa (translator)
- Narrow Road To Oku, The, Matsuo Basho
- One Robe, One Bowl, The Zen Poetry of Ryokan, John Stevens (translator)
- Pilgrim Of The Clouds, Poems And Essays From Ming China, Yuan Hung-tao, Jonathan Chavers (translator)
- Poems of the Late Tang, Penguin Classics, Betty Radice and Robert Baldick, after E. V. Rieu (editors)
- Road To Heaven, Encounters With Chinese Hermits, Bill Porter, 1993
- Selected Poems Of Tu Fu, Tu Fu, David Hinton (translated)
- Shape of Light, The, James Wright, Companions For The Journey, White Pine Press
- Simmering Away, Songs From The Kanginshu, Yasuhiko Moriguchi and David Jenkins (translators), Companions For The Journey, White Pine Press
- Spring Of My Life and Selected Haiku, Kobayashi Issa, Sam Hamill (translator)
- When I Find You Again It Will Be In Mountains, Selected Poems of Chia Tao, Mike O’Connor (translator)
- White Crane – Love Songs of the Sixth Dalai Lama, Companions For The Journey, White Pine Press
The list is non-exhaustive, presented in alphabetical order:
