dreaming of assam is Volume 16 of Poems for Inner Rooms and the sub-title for this book is malayan diar y. If word images of a childhood with innocence, sense of wonderment, but tinged with long distance absence appeal to you and you wish to share its potent, timeless and faraway magic, then this volume is for you. This book takes me home again and again in spirit. Here is one example from this volume :- listening to the teacups being cleared away twenty years ago This book of 92 poems belongs to a collection of life journals written as contemporary haiku and tanka. These are poems for inner rooms. They take poetry into the realm of spirit and are touched by zen, loss, joy, the surreal, temps perdu, the erotic, humour, truth, the everyday, and the sublime. All the six senses are here. The book has been edited to be experienced two ways. It can be read as a storybook and as an anthology of individual poems. ai li ‘s poems have been widely published in the UK, USA, and Japan. One of her six word haiku has been included in Haiku in English - The First Hundred Years which features work by Jack Kerouac, Ezra Pound, Allen Ginsberg, E E Cummings and many others, and is published in hardback by WW Norton & Co, New York 2013. She has also created several original linked forms akin to renku aka renga. She lives quietly and mindfully in London and writes in a Rousseau inspired dream yard watched over by three old stone buddhas. ai li is the editor and publisher of the Cherita , a monthly journal which is available in paperback and kindle on Amazon, and the founding editor and publisher of still, moving into breath and dew-on-line .