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 
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