Colin's latest publication is a book of haiku and short prose pieces. It is available from Colin for £5 per copy plus postage. Please email Colin to buy a copy.

Since reading Jack Kerouac's Dharma Bums in the 1960s Colin has been fascinated by Japanese haiku and the enthusiastic adoption of this simple and uplifting form by writers in the West. The Roundness Of Joy is a selection of Colin's haiku written mostly in recent times. Here is an example presented in a film by Richard –