Published 21st June 2025–from Shoestring Press A delightful pocket-sized book of haiku–illustrated by Bill Sanderson–which follows the ever-changing seasons in the countryside around Stuart’s house. Transcribed from a field notebook, the 72 haiku trace the passage of a year as it moves through the pattern of what the Japanese call kō. Animals, birds, insects, human activity… the life of the landscape under the microscope of this traditional form. A Handful of Wasps was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Environmental Poet of the Year Award 2023-2024. ISBN 978-1-915553-61-4 36pp £8 (Please note: that following the sad death of John Lucas and the closure of Shoestring Press, copies of A Handful of Wasps are no longer available to order from Central Books. It’s hoped they may be shortly available through Amazon. In the meantime they may be ordered directly from the author using this link. ) 
One reader takes the Wasps for a walk on the wild side–in Greenland
