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It was very sad to hear about the passing of André Surridge. I know he must have been a fine person because I spent thirteen months in Hull as renga poet-in-residence, and there's something very special about the city and its people.

I regularly come back to this haiku, not only because it touches on a single day, which is special in itself, but  because it's packed with layers. A close reader and an empathic one, will continue to be astonished at how much is really here.

As With Words became Call of the Page we've continued to use this as a powerful example of looking beyond the words and into the human condition.

Remembrance Day–
the child insists on a poppy
for her doll

André Surridge
Hamilton, New Zealand

1st With Words International Online Haiku Competition (2008)
Joint 3rd Prize

The 'Remembrance Day' haiku starts simply enough, but with a surprise in the 'phrase' part of the haiku. Many of us may think special memorial days are for 'last century's wars' but without preaching, only showing, this poem reminds me that wars are still very much with us. I found that the scene with the little girl insisting on a poppy for her doll was very potent.
https://withwords.org.uk/results.html#2008commentary

deepest condolences,

Alan Summers
www.callofthepage.org

Quote from: sandra on December 26, 2019, 05:37:50 PM
It is with regret that I inform you that New Zealand haiku and tanka poet Andre Surridge passed away on December 23.

A tribute page to him may be found here: https://poetrysociety.org.nz/affiliates/haiku-nz/haiku-happenings/

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AHA 2020 CONTEST CALL

SUBMISSIONS FOR THE ANNUAL UHTS AHA HAIKU/SENRYU CONTEST OPEN ON 1st JANUARY AND CLOSE ON 31st January 2020.

Please note that we have a new, shorter submission period.

For further details on how to submit check the contest guidelines here: https://unitedhaikuandtankasociety.com/contests
Please do "not" use the cattails submissions guidelines for contests.

RESULTS: The names of winners (only) will be notified by email and the winning poems will be published with the Judge's commentary in an upcoming issue of Seedpods, our e-newsletter.

To receive a copy of Seedpods, please join UHTS by contacting our Secretary, Iliyana Stoyanova at uhts_secretary@fastmail.co.uk, with the subject heading "UHTS MEMBERSHIP".

Marianna Monaco
UHTS CONTEST COORDINATOR
email: marianna.monaco@gmail.com
https://unitedhaikuandtankasociety.com/contest-submission-guidelines


As President of the United Haiku and Tanka Society I'll also be writing a report on the results with a special take on haiku and senryu.



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"The Seven Points of Haiku":

Enjoy 'looking into the eye of the #haiku' & not just 'around it'.

An example of opening lines with commentary can be seen at:
https://twitter.com/haikutec/status/1204352855035039745

Alan

extra note:

Finding an opening line is always an adventure! Whether the first line is a single line fragment, or the start of your two line 'phrase' section, or the first words of a monoku one line haiku or even a duostich.

Remember that if you create a collection of poems, that variety is good for the reader!

Do visit the World Haiku Series project and even give a like, and a comment!  8)

Hidenori Hiruta, of Akita, Japan, has created an ambitious project of show casing ten haiku from poets from around the world:

https://akitahaiku.com/category/world-haiku-series/


The World Haiku Series runs from December, 2019 until September, 2020.
The series is updated five times a week, so five haiku poets appear on the website every week.
Each haiku poet appears with ten haiku, bio, or photos with Japanese translation.


Hidenori Hiruta
President
Akita International Haiku Network, Japan
(Member of HAIKU INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Japan)

Alan & Karen at Call of the Page have a brand new course called One-Line Haiku starting mid-January in 2020!

One-Line Haiku
https://www.callofthepage.org/courses/haiku-courses/one-line-haiku-new/



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I hope many of you have joined the UHTS, which is free, and received the newsletter! :-)
There are great commentaries from the judges, and my President's Report which includes a special piece about the 'impulsiveness of the line' in tanka, which is as applicable to haiku.

My name is thankfully spelt correctly in the newsletter but sadly is misspelt in this post and others.

It's really important to get names correctly spelt, and it's a horrible feeling when our names are posted incorrectly.

I hope this case reminds us all to get everyone's name right. I'm been guilty in the past which horrifies me, so fingers crossed, no more mistakes from any of us! :-)

warm regards,

Alan SUMMERS
President, United Haiku and Tanka Society

Quote from: light pilgrim on November 06, 2019, 07:48:53 AM
UHTS "Fleeting Words" TANKA  2019 CONTEST RESULTS

Judged by:   Michael McClintock and Carole MacRury

Congratulations to the winners selected from 414 entries from the following countries:

Australia
Bulgaria
Canada
Croatia
Germany
India
Indonesia
Ireland
Italy
Nigeria
The Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Romania
South Africa
Ukraine
UK
USA




Names of the winning poets:

First Place: Robin Anna Smith, USA
Second Place: Pamela Babusci, USA
Third Place: Ignatius Fay, Canada



Honorable mentions: (unranked)

Kanchan Chatterjee, India
Nicholas Klacsanzky, Ukraine
Kathy Lippard Cobb, USA
Susan Burch, USA
Marilyn Ashbaugh, USA



Full results and the judges' commentary along with the UHTS President, Alan Summer's statement and commentary can be found in the November 2019 issue of Seedpods, our e-newsletter. To receive a copy of Seedpods, please join UHTS by contacting our Secretary, Iliyana Stoyanova at uhts_secretary@fastmail.co.uk, with the subject heading "UHTS MEMBERSHIP".

Marianna Monaco
UHTS CONTEST COORDINATOR
email: marianna.monaco@gmail.com

ANOTHER TRIP AROUND THE SUN: 365 Days of Haiku for Children Young and Old
edited by Jessica Malone Latham
http://www.brooksbookshaiku.com/Latham-AnotherTrip.html


From the Editor's Preface:

Though each poem in this collection may not be a direct reflection of childhood, it is my wish that each poem ignites a discussion or creates a spark of curiosity. For when we live with curiousity and openness, the miracle of the present moment comes through.

My vision for this collection is for these poems to be read each day throughout the year. Read them with your child or grandchild, gift them to a friend whose children no longer live at home to spark memories from the past, or spontaneously sift through the book on a cloud-drift day. Spend time savoring each poem, share memories, or write poems together inspired by that day's haiku.

~ Jessica Malone Latham

Here's the message that Karen put together for anyone who sent in unpublished poems. And thanks again!



From Karen:

Please note that you are free to send out your poems to other places - as the museum only offered to "possibly" put some on their website, we decided therefore it was only fair to ask for "non-exclusive" use of peoples' poems.

I'll be putting up pictures on the website as soon as I can, I'm sorry it's been so busy here, we got about three times as many poems as we were expecting!

A huge folder of poems was taken for the people at the event to look through, and we passed it around, and yours would have been part of this. It was wonderful to have them to show people. Thank you for sending them! The choosing of the poems by the museum is a longer term project, but we will be excited to let people know if they do go ahead and put them on the museum website.

There are no photos of the file contents, it was too thick, but as I say there will be pics of the event!


All the best for now!

Karen
https://www.callofthepage.org/about-1/

We have been further commissioned on this project!

At present we have collated all the haiku and legal permissions for the museum and are now working on a long list of poems only for the museum to select from.

There is also another exciting aspect of the project which will be announced at the end of the year.

In the meantime 65 pages of poems were printed out for the live workshop audience and museum team to enjoy and appreciate, and use as guidance.

Next step is the long list being shortened by the museum.

A Call of the Page newsletter will be released with an update in a week or two.

warm regards,
Alan & Karen
https://www.callofthepage.org/contact/newsletter-sign-up/

Another great haikai journal is now nominating work for the Pushcart Prize!

After two major disasters just before my birthday today, along came two big surprises!

First of all I was thrilled to have a haiku selected for commentaries:
https://haikucommentary.wordpress.com/2019/09/15/alan-summers-riverlight/

And then I receive an email to tell me I'm nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and it's for haibun, and one that was totally rewritten, almost from scratch! More power to revision!
https://www.humankindjournal.org/contrib_alan_summers/issue-14-alan-summers


Plus even better!
FIVE former or regular haiku & haibun participants on Call of the Page online courses also won awards including TWO Pushcart Prize nominations for haibun. I wish I could tell you what personal challenges they've gone through, and continue to go through, with both health, and other issues.  Thank you Human/Kind journal!!!

What a birthday already! :-)

So if you haven't checked out Human/Kind please visit, please consider leaving a lovely comment on someone's poetry page too!

And check out the submissions, as the editors are great, and they look for candidates for the Pushcart Prize, Red Moon anthologies nominations, and also Touchstone nominations!

Alan

I love to write from direct experience and keep them as they are, without over-tampering. It's a thrill when an actual experience can go into a haiku relatively as it happened!

I am also influenced by art, colour, and history, and some aspects of this, plus a nod to two famous haiku poets, which about this piece called The After Party:
https://weirdlaburnum.wordpress.com/2019/09/15/the-after-party/


Poets are always influenced by other poets, and sometimes we want to acknowledge that in a poem. What better way than to add 'after ...' as I've done here with two well-known haiku poets, as well as the artists Edward Hopper ('Nighthawks'); and Michael Te Rakato Parekowhai's He Korero Purakau mo Te Awanui o Te Motu: story of a New Zealand river: https://crosseyedpianist.com/2018/12/04/a-grand-artwork-is-a-comment-on-cultural-cross-currents/

warm regards,
Alan

p.s.

Basically, other than experiential work, I constantly explore and re-explore certain artists, certain themes.

We had a full house! People of all ages (some I encouraged to submit to Lori A Minor's publications as they were now in the 'modern dating scene').

We even had someone from Mainland China! :-) Now that was awesome, talk about distance!

Karen Garvey, the Bristol Museum(s) Events Officer put photos up in real time last night, so catch them at:

https://twitter.com/bristolmuseum

I cannot get over how much hard work went into this event by Kate Newnam, Senior Curator, and Karen Garvey, and the museum crew.

We even had one person from the British Haiku Society attend, which was lovely!

Alan

Thank you for your contributions of haiku and tanka, you know who you are!  :)

The deadline, due to popularity, has been EXTENDED to Sunday 8th September 2019!  :)

Alan & Karen

Lots of great haiku from all over the world but we could do with more tanka too!  ;)

The poem portal will be open at least until Sunday September 1st.
ALL poems will be printed out by the museum for the September 5th evening event!

Alan

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Haiku: The one breath poetry evening event (with bar) at the Bristol Museum and City Gallery offers an opportunity for those both overseas, and anyone unable to make the physical event.

An opportunity for poets...
There is also an opportunity to submit haiku, senryu or tanka poetry online, based on (or matched to) Bristol Museum & Art Gallery's prints, from wherever in the world you are logging on. We are looking for poems to use as examples during the event, and some may also be selected for possible publication on the museum's website.

Details about the opportunity:
https://www.callofthepage.org/events/haiku-at-bristol-museum/

Look forward to entries!  :)

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