New for summer 2025: A Handful of Wasps A pocket-sized book of haiku that follow the ever-changing seasons of an English year …
‘Read individually, the haikus are sharp, self-contained snapshots; together, they form a sustained meditation on time, and the interplay between human perception and the natural world. By refusing to sentimentalise nature or impose moral coherence, Henson creates a different kind of intimacy – one grounded in patience and acceptance…. Meaning lies not in what nature offers, but in how carefully we notice it. Henson’s poems ask us only to observe, to bear witness to what goes by.’ (Lucy Winrow: London Grip)
And Stuart’s most recent full collection
Beautiful Monsters
A new collection in celebration of all things crazy, worn out, glorious… From Rory Gallagher’s road-ravaged Strat to a rhinoceros in Martial’s Colosseum. Little Monsters like Rimbaud, big beasts like Baudelaire. A whiff of honeysuckle, signs in a supermarket, a book left on a poet’s grave, an elephant, a dancing bear… order at:https://www.centralbooks.com/beautiful-monsters.html reviewed here by Thomas Ovans Also from Shoestring Press…
2022 Michael Marks Illustrator’s Award Winner
A pamphlet of poems sent at Christmas, illustrated by Bill Sanderson. Slim enough to be posted in place of a card, Twelve Days would make an ideal seasonal gift. Read review by Carla Scarano in London Grip. and now SOLD OUT from Shoestring Press… (a few copies still available from the author)
40 New Poems and selections from 6 earlier books…
and…
FEAST OF FOOLS A collaborative venture with artist Bill Sanderson featuring fourteen images and poems based on medieval misericords. (See review by D A Prince in London Grip)

