Circling the SunsetMaurice Tasnier's highly original haiku are located in places such as doctors' waiting rooms, or draughty churches, as well as the form's more traditional natural world settings. Sometimes the short poems are sexy, sometimes humorous, and always observant, further emphasising how far the haiku form has developed over recent years in the UK. The author, who lives in Somerset, has won several awards, and his haiku have been translated into seven

Everyone laughed—me too—

Douglas Thompson explores the vagaries around a father's death and new to Dream Catcher

Publishing it

George Szirtes (with Veronika Krasnova): From the Introduction to Six poems

Jack Hamesh was here again

Poetry came to him as a scrabble board of acne mists and algae guns

Pawlo Tychyna

songs of exile and songs against exile

the retreat of campaigning field- hands from the bosses’ bully boys

behold - spread out

was commissioned by Royal Mail to produce four series of stamps (now available from Post & Go machines) featuring British birds

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