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21st November 2009

The Autumn 2009 issue of CZH is here, with another of my haiku.

I have also had word that four of my poems (A plain woman in a black beret, The Teddy Bears are coming, Why I don't own a pen, and Railway Poetry) have been selected for issue 51 of Obsessed With Pipework - the "quarterly magazine of highwire poetry to surprise and delight" - published by Flarestack.

I'm expecting news fairly soon abou… Continue

Well, thought to hell with it and entered the opening chapter competition with UK Authors - Kangaroo Land has been changed and updated a lot since the summer.

New Synopsis:

A quirky travel tale in the genre of Stephen Clarke and Bill Bryson.

Hope quits England for six months and with an oversized backpack heads to Sydney. Unfortunately, her initial stay is with hip-swinging Tatum who has unique capabilities of transforming herself into the most irritating, whining person ever.

Keen to experi… Continue

I have in my hands the back copies of Canadian Zen Haiku in which several of my haiku and senryu appear - four in the Autumn 2008 issue, six in the Summer 2009 issue. They are in English...

village children
picking the low plums -
the high fruit rots

French...

un seul jour sans soleil
déjà laissent tomber les pavots
leurs couleurs

and Scots...

a fleein' edder
hings ower the burn's lip -
afeart o' bauchles