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Venice Haiku by Mike Wilkin

Here's a 'haiku review' of a lovely little book published by Iron Press: Delicate pages Redolent of gondolas - Venice glimpsed by lovers.

The only thing I’ve read lately is the lunch menu at the local sandwich shop. Work has welded me to the Machine. You know the one. You are staring into it. Starved of novels, I’ve been stumbling around the cyber-desert…

Intoxicating night with millionaire poet Felix Dennis

"The poetry was as intoxicating as the liquor... If Felix and his crew drop anchor in a port near you I'd say, "Go! Partake! Enjoy the abundance!"

My Name is Mina by David Almond

Have you met Mina? She loves words and birds and William Blake. She hates cages and she doesn’t go to school. Not any more anyway… My Name is Mina is her journal. It’s a young writer’s notebook – as gloriously…

Momo by Michael Ende

Momo is a little girl with a peculiar talent for listening. Friends flock to tell her their troubles, share their stories and play with her. Until the men in grey appear, and suddenly no one has the time. Only Momo…