recent or forthcoming books or chapbooks from authors featured in the autumn 2006 issue of kaleidowhirl  

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Rochelle Ratner has two recent poetry books: Balancing Acts from Marsh Hawk Press and Beggars at the Wall from Ikon, available through SPD.

Richard Stevenson's memoir, Riding on a Magpie Riff, is available from Black Moss. Stevenson also has three forthcoming collections: A Tidings of Magpies: Haiku, Senryu, and Tanka, with Spotted Cow in Edmonton; Bye Bye Blackbird, an elegiac sequence of jazz poems for/on the late great Miles Davis; and a new collection of haiku, senryu, tanka, and zappai called The Emerald Hour, which will be collaborative work with local photographer Ellen McArthur (both collections recently accepted from Ekstasis Editions).