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KOKAKO is an annual poetry magazine for haiku, renga, senryu and related forms as well as other kinds of poetry and is edited by Patricia Prime and Bernard Gadd. Out of the spinning mass of haiku and other forms, the following pieces by Catherine Mair, Karen Peterson Butterworth, LeRoy Gorman and John Kinory are of apparent note on an initial reading but, of course, further readings would undoubtedly have highlighted others:

	daybreak
	a teaspoon clicks
	in a coffee mug

		granddad and grandson —
		the same front teeth
		missing

	loosening winter coats
	an elderly couple
	at the cemetery gate

		a lone cyclist
		vanishes into fog
		halfway across the bridge
We also have the winning entries in KOKAKO NEW ZEALAND HAIKU CONTEST, 2003, including this haiku by Tony Beyer, probably the most succinct, evocative and effective piece in the whole magazine:
	first love
	the secret her face
	tells everyone
Out of the section specifically grouped together as not being haiku and related genre, there is good work from Andrew Detheridge, Jan FitzGerald and Barbara Strang amongst others. The issue finishes off with a few reviews and information about the magazine's current competitions.

reviewer: Alan Hardy.