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Welcome to the online continuation of NOON: journal of the short poem. Published in hand-sewn, limited editions between 2004 and 2009, the journal aims to put some of the most interesting English-language haiku in conversation with other innovative short poetry. Since 2014, the issues have appeared online, with the journal’s style of presentation being retained as far as possible. The plan is to publish, every five years or so, a selection of poems from the online issues in printed book form.

Published in May 2019:

noon anthology cover

Also available:

An Open Parenthesis
Something Other Than Other
Before Music
Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years


There is a Zone whose even Years
No Solstice interrupt –
Whose Sun constructs perpetual Noon
Whose perfect Seasons wait –

Whose Summer set in Summer, till
The Centuries of June
And Centuries of August cease
And consciousness – is Noon –

Emily Dickinson