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5th January, 2013
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12th December, 2012
Editing arrangements for issue 48 take a familiar shape – Martin’s back to work on the email; Matthew is taking postal submissions and reviews; and Ian is taking haibun. We’ve had to raise subscription prices to cover a large increase in postage costs, and all details of the new rates are on the Subscriptions page.
7th February, 2010
The new version of the Presence website is now online. All the content is still here, in pretty much the same place, but it's had a major facelift—and been reengineered (using xHTML and external CSS, if you’re interested in such things), which should make it display properly in most browsers.
The graphic in the header is taken from one of Helen Robinson’s images for the Haiku Presence Exhibition.
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Stepping Stones
Stepping Stones: a way into haiku by Martin Lucas
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.
192pp, ISBN 978-0-9522397-9-6
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.
UK price: £12 plus £1.50 p&p
Europe: €19 plus €4 p&p (airmail)
USA: US$26 plus US$8 p&p (airmail)
(Euro and US$ orders payable in cash)
Order from:
Stanley Pelter,
Maple House, 5 School Lane,
Claypole,
Lincs, NG23 5BQ,
United Kingdom