Venice HaikuNorth East poet Michael Wilkin, previously published in the Bloodaxe collection Ten North East Poets: An Anthology (1980), is a regular visitor to Venice. Over the years he has penned these vivid haiku, 51 in total, seeing the watery city in a new light. The book is a distinctive A7 in size, beautifully produced on textured paper, with one haiku per page. Aboard a leaping Vaporetto The road to Venice Splashes in our faces. Today the rain pocked canals

Drought trans

That Hughes still holds the reader’s attention until the final shattering revelation is a tribute to his skill

And you can forget the winter

new movements in art and literature

and the ways that more can be done with jazz composition are demonstrated with particular reference to the music of Charles Mingus and Gil Evans

and her second novel was one of five shortlisted in the National Lit

Tüzföld (Fire-earth) appeared in 1972 with an introduction by Sándor Weöres

Little hearts

two brutal wars and the controversial histories of two very special works of art

in its divergent

Scotellaro

of a corpse feeding on dirt