The Loose End Of The Night by Paul Grant

IRON Press continues its tradition of publishing the best contemporary haiku with this vividly written first collection from Milton Keynes poet Paul Grant

Paul Grant’s haiku, often declining the form’s more traditional subject matters, have a distinctly urban flavour, further emphasising how the Japanese verse form is being effortlessly absorbed into our own literature.

Arriving late
Greeted by
An empty bench

Lip-syncing
The Friday night
Commercials

Two joggers
Trying to outrun
Death

Haiku is now taught in the majority of schools and is a form young people readily take to and emulate.

IRON Press is the country’s leading independent publisher of haiku. IRON Press haiku books come complete with point-of-sale dump bin and full colour A3 promotion poster.

Reviews of The Loose End Of The Night

	07 August 2008
Reviewed by customer: Richard Turner
Great modern western haiku/senyru. Often captures a moment with great clarity and the distills an idea to it's bare minimum with great effect. Displays wit, humour, compassion, and updates the form for the modern age. Richard Turner
	30 August 2006
Reviewed by customer: Michael Sullivan
i came upon this book by chance and im glad i did.the haiku are simple, easy and give small moments a sense of something bigger.a few miss the mark but as a whole this is a very fine first effort. Michael Sullivan
	13 August 2006
Reviewed by customer: charlene jones
This book is an amazing piece of modern poetry, some of the haikus really grasp todays youthful outlook on modern society. I would definitely recommend this book to poetry enthusiasts, and also to people who don't want to opt for complicated repetitive poems. charlene jones

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