This unique anthology has tapped a well of international contemporaneous writing hitherto under-researched as a collective. Contributing authors emanate from a wide variety of ethnic origins, and live in the United Kingdom, America, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Antipodes. Acting as a launch pad for over a hundred poems, haiku and tanka, it offers the authors and poets a showcase for their work and to bring it to a wider audience. This book brims with diversity and celebrates the variety of vibrant, contemporary poetical thought word and deed. The second book in the series The Strand Book of International Poets 2010 follows the 2009 publication The Strand Book of Memorable Maxims. Forthcoming title in this series: The Strand Book Of International Short Stories 2010.