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The inaugural issue Leaf-Fall edited by Akira Yagami has just been released!

Five haiku poets are featured including Sandra Simpson; Lucy Whitehead; and John McManus!


Akira Yagami has a very limited number of physical copies left for sale.
£6 to UK and Irish residents and £8 to anyone overseas.

All enquiries and orders can be sent to this email address:
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It's a lovely little haiku publication!

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Thank you Lorraine!

I've been posting a few comments on other people's work on the website, as Robin loves us the dialog that can come out. If any piece talks to you, do let the author know, and they might even reply back. :-)

warm regards,
Alan

p.s.
Not just my work, and I do appreciate the comment.  :)

Quote from: Lorraine Pester on June 01, 2019, 08:33:01 PM
Hi Alan,

Enjoying your Human/Kind pieces. I especially like 'the cul de sac of shadows'

Human/Kind journal 1.6 (June 2019) is now out:
https://www.humankindjournal.org

It was a total surprise, and an honour.

I'm delighted that my ongoing Yellow series continues.

Giallo is a term for Italian crime fiction, but I've also written on other types of yellow including saffron and its harvesting.

warm regards,
Alan

Quote from: Seaview on May 29, 2019, 03:23:29 AM
Well done on being in this set of fine work, Alan.

marion

It's incredibly sad, and I know so many people with chronic illnesses and got to know more via Karen's involvement. I can't talk about one as it's so horribly heartbreaking on so many levels, including great injustice on a monstrous scale.

I figure that the lovely Rachel planned to end the posts after a certain time. It's very rare to publish a posthumous collection, as I know with the case of the lovely Linda Lamas, but it's actually incredibly rewarding.

It would be wonderful if a publisher was approached by her surviving family one day.

Alan

Quote from: Seaview on May 29, 2019, 03:26:49 AM
I see Rachel's blog is no longer posting her work. Sad, but inevitable. I really miss her regular posts and comments here on The Foundation and our online chats.

marion

FIVE HAIKU
CURATED BY MICHAEL O'BRIEN
https://neutralspaces.co/mixtapes/

Sometimes I write "in a fugue" and can't explain. Here's my go at explaining or doing some deconstructions:  https://weirdlaburnum.wordpress.com/2019/05/19/229/#comment-51

warm regards,
Alan

Thanks!  :)

But I've never been in any box.  ;)

Quote from: Lorraine Pester on May 20, 2019, 01:27:01 PM
Alan,

Good to see you're out of the box again  8)

After writing a number of nature-based haiku I've let my more unusual side reappear with a selection of work at new magazine weird laburnum: Weird haiku. Modern haiku. New haiku. Western haiku. Gendai haiku. Short form. Minimalism. And beyond.
https://weirdlaburnum.wordpress.com/2019/05/19/229/

Dare to enjoy!  8)

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And do leave a comment about what you think.  :)

The May 2019 issue of Human/kind!
Delighted to have a monobun in this issue!!!  8)

Catch another brilliant issue of haiku, tanka, haibun (and monobun), shahai and haiga and terrific artwork, and more!

HUMAN/KIND
Journal of Topical and Contemporary Japanese Short-forms and Art
Issue 1.5 May 2019
https://www.humankindjournal.org/issue-1-5.html


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Spring and Summer opportunities!

Want to know more about photography and haiku?
https://www.callofthepage.org/learning/haiga-shahai-courses/
And happy to include tanka too!  :)

Want to further improve your tanka?

We have intermediate and advanced courses:
https://www.callofthepage.org/learning/tanka-courses/

Tanka - Shape and Sound
This is an advanced course, suitable for those who already have at least a small body of work of tanka.
Technical sound analysis includes visuals of soundwaves, from former sound recordist and consultant Karen Hoy (who was tanka editor for the Blithe Spirit haikai journal, British Haiku Society).
Optional short overall feedback on the new writing work is included from writing tutor Alan Summers.
https://www.callofthepage.org/learning/tanka-courses/tanka-shape-and-sound/

The haiku courses tend to sell out quickly!
We now have two types of intermediate courses

Intermediate Haiku (Shorter)
https://www.callofthepage.org/learning/haiku-courses/intermediate-haiku-shorter-course/

Intermediate Haiku Course (Longer Course)
https://www.callofthepage.org/learning/haiku-courses/intermediate-haiku-longer-course/

This is now our second "Introducing... Haiku"
It proved so successful, and fast-tracked people to write fresh, original, and powerful haiku, that we've brought it back! We've even had someone who was an established haiku poet taking this course as a refresher.
https://www.callofthepage.org/learning/haiku-courses/introducing-haiku/

Karen Hoy & Alan Summers

Highly recommended competition!!!

Raquel D Bailey is the person behind Lyrical Passion and all its projects and contests. Area 17 is planning to have a guest blogger spot on Raquel later this year, fingers crossed!

And Call of the Page will be running special tanka courses, so nothing will be wasted if you enter and don't win! :-)

warm regards,
Alan
President, United Haiku and Tanka Society
co-founder, Call of the Page

Quote from: FoundingEditor on April 26, 2019, 12:18:42 PM
Happy National Poetry Month!

The deadline for the 2019 World Tanka Poetry Contest at Lyrical Passion Poetry E-zine has been extended to June 1st.

GUIDELINES: Only unpublished high quality tanka poems not submitted for publication or to any other contest, will be accepted. The appearance of poems in online discussion lists, twitter, facebook or personal websites is considered publication and will not qualify. Please type "World Tanka" in subject line of your email to avoid deletion.

The theme for this year's competition is "Love". Enter by email only. Please type poems in the body of your email. (Please no email attachments or postal submissions will be accepted). All attachments to email will be deleted.


Email: lpezinesubmissions@gmail.com

Contest opens: March 1, 2019 - June 1, 2019.

Theme: "Love".

Entries must be emailed no later than the deadline: June 1, 2019 at 11:59 EST to qualify. International submissions always welcome. Entries received after the deadline will not be accepted. Winners and Honorable Mentions will be posted on the website. All rights revert to the authors after publication.

Contest Entry Fee: $3.00 US/ tanka poem or $10.00 US/ set of 5 poems. Each set of 5 poems receives the discounted price. For example, if you have submitted 3 poems, enter $9.00 US as the total cost in the paypal "price per item" box. If submitting 12 poems then your total cost would be $26.00 US. Only online & Paypal payments will be accepted.

Happy Poetry Writing!

Top Prizes – Grand Prize: $250.00 (US) & Certificate, 2nd Prize: $125.00, 3rd Prize: $50.00

I still remember the ginko with Martin Lucas that was a downpour from start to finish yet oddly we stayed out longer than any ginko I've known. This was despite a park wildlife centre cafe just a couple of minutes away where we could have retired to sooner, with hot drinks, and discussion.

Plus I've enjoyed going out in snow blizzards for haiku and renga walks when working in Hull. :-)

Karen is beavering away designing new courses right now, but we are keen to put up the 'different kind of ginko' before too long. And also do get your Slimbridge verses together, and any that are not going to be submitted to journals, we'd be interested in seeing. :-)

In Chippenham we are very lucky as the train station is right by the park, down a one way side road. But we also have offroad parking spaces for two good sized cars or utes, and a meadow just 2-3 minutes slow stroll away that leads into other green areas. :-)

Alan

Quote from: flowerfox on April 25, 2019, 12:49:08 AM
The weather can never be too good, Alan :) both class events have been great, we've all been very fortunate the weather was with us, although an atmospheric day could add to the experience.

A ginko with a difference, I'll be looking for the post.

Thanks Carol!

We were certainly blown away by the sheer window frontage of the workshop room, and not only see but hear and feel so many birds, and even our backs turned or heads down the fleeting shadows gave us even more.

re haiga (and also shahai) watch this space.  ;)

We have another ginko in the works, but it will be quite different!  8)

Also we intend to run a ginko or two from Chippenham as it has one of the longest river walks in England, plus we are only two minutes from one end, and the train station is only two minutes from the park that runs into the meadow behind our house, yet we are very much in an urban town if walking  in another direction, all good! :-)

warm regards,
Alan

Quote from: flowerfox on April 24, 2019, 02:01:03 AM
It certainly was awesome. Walking into the workshop room was an amazing experience, all those birds/sounds, with a backdrop of beautiful countryside and the hills in the distance.
There was mention of Sir Peter's house being opened as a museum. The gallery of windows overlooking the lakes would give an inspiring view for artists and poets alike, I'm thinking haiga workshop, if the house opens to the public. Just to see his paintings and to read his words would be brilliant day out.

Quote from: AlanSummers on April 08, 2019, 05:00:01 AM
Dear Carol,

On behalf of Karen and myself, thank you! It was an incredible day, and fantastic that you could lend your farming seasons experience and more for our American ginko colleague too!

The spirit of Wales was embraced both on that day, and the day we got back, after a very long day of bus rides as the trains were not working! :-)

Thank you so much for being there, and such an integral part of the day, and for your friendship and kindness, and giving so much to the walk and the workshop.

To be overlooking Sir Peter Scott's house and surrounded by his vision made true, and also his paintings, was awesome wasn't it! :-)

warm regards,
Alan
https://www.callofthepage.org

Quote from: flowerfox on April 06, 2019, 01:38:02 PM
The workshop at Slimbridge was, and will remain, a memorable day.
Our hosts Karen and Alan made us feel at ease and encouraged us to pass constructive comments on
the haiku presented, not only at the workshop, at this outstanding venue, but those who submitted, for the event, from other parts of the world, online.
What an experience.
Many thanks to those present at the workshop, and the unseen people who were with us in the spirit of haiku.

Low Bow  :)

Thanks Marion, Carol,

It was a wonderful time, and the weather was almost too good. :-)

It was also great that one of our overseas course participants could be included in feedback, and that others from the newsletter could send in examples of haiku (and tanka), that we wrote up onto the flipchart.

Alan

Quote from: flowerfox on April 24, 2019, 01:46:50 AM

Quote from: Seaview on April 23, 2019, 12:51:10 AM
Sounds like a wonderful afternoon!

I certainly was, hopefully there'll be another.