The purpose of this page is simply to outline additions and other changes to the web site content. It replaces our former practice of posting rather sparse details of changes at the foot of the home page. So this is the one to bookmark if you intend to visit the Presence website regularly. The most recent site update details will always be here - and any previous update(s) too wherever there has been a relatively short time gap between them.
Recent updates:
02 Nov 2009: Please be advised that due to the industrial action taking place within Royal Mail at the present time, resulting in significant delays in mail deliveries, we are extending the in-hand deadline for this year's Haiku Presence Award to 30 Nov 2009.
11 Jul 2009: We seem to have lost touch with Michael Dylan Welch, his former website address now being home to a different user. So we have removed the existing link and hope to replace it with that of his new website before too long.
We have also been made aware that the Presence site can seemingly only be viewed in full and as intended through Internet Explorer running under most versions of Windows. Other browsers now only display a 'broken' and partial set of pages. We are currently trying to discover why this has happened and suspect it may be that the site pages need some re-writing in a later version of html code. Please bear with us in this matter.
Copies of the exciting and well-received book by Presence editor and publisher Martin Lucas are still available for purchase. Please see the details immediately below.
Stepping Stones:
a way into haiku
Martin Lucas
Available now
Following in the footsteps of R.H. Blyth’s famous commentaries on Japanese haiku, this unique British
anthology combines appreciation, analysis and imagination, initiating the “unfolding process of discovery”
that takes us deeper into the meaning of haiku.
Features 366 haiku and senryu by 71 poets, each with a short paragraph of commentary.
“There is only one word for Stepping Stones – Excellent!
What shows through, I think, is your love of haiku.”
- Pamela Brown, letter to the author.
192 pp., ISBN 978-0-9522397-9-6.
UK Price: £12 + £1·50 p&p
Europe: 19€ + 4€ p&p (airmail)
USA: US$26 + US$8 p&p (airmail)
(Euro & US$ orders payable in cash.)
Order from: Stanley Pelter, Maple House, 5 School Lane, Claypole, Lincs. NG23 5BQ, UK