In honour of community, collaboration and spirit, six Vancouver writers took on traditional Japanese poetic forms such as haiku, hokku and renga, and created their own modern hybrids. The final product for the 2008 Powell Street Festival was a limited run of 120 slender, hand-stitched, illustrated chapbooks with ribbon bookmarks attached, complete with a dedication to the late Roy Kiyooka.

The "pH6" in the title implies a sense of balance to the book's unpredictable poetic pairings - inspiration and creativity, ritual and invention, life and death. The voices within make up an echo chamber across time and experience, the shadow of tradition always traceable.