A Commonplace Book (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781780378008)

Maitreyabandhu was born Ian Johnson in 1961, in Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire. He was ordained into the Triratna Buddhist Order in 1990 and since then he has lived and worked at the London Buddhist Centre, teaching Buddhism and meditation. He has written three books on Buddhism, Thicker than Blood: Friendship on the Buddhist Path (2001), Life with Full Attention: a Practical Course in Mindfulness (2009) and The Journey and the Guide, all from Windhorse Publications. Maitreyabandhu has won the Keats-Shelley Prize, the Basil Bunting Award, the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize, and the Ledbury Festival Poetry Competition. His first pamphlet The Bond won the Poetry Business Book and Pamphlet Competition (2010) and was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award. Vita Brevis, his second pamphlet, won the iOTA Shots Award (2011). His first book-length collection, The Crumb Road, was published by Bloodaxe in 2013 and was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. His second collection, Yarn, followed in 2015. His third Bloodaxe title, After Cézanne, an illustrated meditation on the life and work of the painter, was published in 2019. His fourth book of poetry, A Commonplace Book, was published by Bloodaxe in 2026 in the UK and 2027 in the US.