It’s official! My first poetry collection, Fractures, is on its way from Tapsalteerie Towers to the printers and you can pre-order it through the website here. It’s a collection of haiku and haiku-like poems (basically I play fast-and-loose with the official haiku ‘rules’) that stand alone but also bounce off each other to create a fragmentedContinue reading “Fractures Unleashed!”
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Kyourai’s Hut
I’ve been pretty busy on the writing front recently, unfortunately none of it is in any state to discuss here. Until it is, here’s the latest issue of Eastlit magazine, which contains a rare poem by me. It was initially inspired by visiting the home of haiku poet Kyourai in Kyoto, then grew from there.Continue reading “Kyourai’s Hut”
China
About two years ago I went to China for three weeks. I spent the first week in and around Shanghai with my wife then, when she had to return to Japan for work, I met up with my friend Robert and we visited Beijing, Xi’an and Nanjing before I returned to Shanghai and flew home.Continue reading “China”