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SEEDPODS
December 2017
Welcome to Seedpods
The e-newsletter of the United Haiku and Tanka Society

In this edition:
- Results for the UHTS 'Fleeting Words' Tanka competition
- News from Alan Summers -- UHTS president
- Submission Period for the April 2018 issue of cattails
- Reminder --  "Samurai" Haibun Contest
http://mailchi.mp/7fe6a2d397dd/vxk05gv8em?e=bfce4e6055


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Actually I was Second Place, against very tough competition. ;-)

I enjoyed leaving likes and comments while the competition was running too!

warm regards,
Alan

Quote from: Seaview on November 20, 2017, 04:00:27 PM
Well done to all. Congrats on being placed runner up, Alan.

marion

AHS Spring Haiga Kukai: Non Seasonal Results with comments by judge Ron Moss
https://australianhaikusociety.org/2017/10/22/ahs-spring-haiga-kukai-non-seasonal-results-with-comments-by-judge-ron-moss/

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AHS Spring Haiga Kukai: Seasonal Results with comments by judge Ron Moss
https://australianhaikusociety.org/2017/10/22/ahs-spring-haiga-kukai-seasonal-results-with-comments-by-judge-ron-moss/

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The Moon is Broken: Juxtaposition in haiku - previously published in the Fellowship of Australian Writers journal a few years back is now extended and updated. It can be viewed at:
http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/the-moon-is-broken-juxtaposition-in.html

warmest regards

Alan Summers

The results of the Fleeting Words Tanka Contest will be published in the November issue of SEEDPODS, the United Haiku and Tanka Society e-newsletter.

It's free to join the UHTS if anyone who isn't a UHTS member would love to catch the results:
http://unitedhaikuandtankasociety.com/join

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SUBMISSIONS FOR THE ANNUAL UHTS SAMURAI HAIBUN CONTEST ARE OPEN.
The Submission Period and Deadline are 1st September - 15th December.
For further details on how to submit please check the contest guidelines here:
http://unitedhaikuandtankasociety.com/contest-submission-guidelines

Please do "not" use the cattails submissions guidelines for contests.


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

Hi!

The pdf link should be downloadable across devices, both PC and Apple, Android etc...

Website:
http://www.cattailsjournal.com/welcome.html

Click onto "current issue":
http://www.cattailsjournal.com/currentissue.html

Which gives the PDF link:
http://www.cattailsjournal.com/issues/cattails_final_Oct2017.pdf

Please let me know if you cannot download the link, and I'll notify Mike.

warm regards,

Alan

Quote from: flowerfox on October 15, 2017, 12:02:49 PM
Can this PDF be downloaded onto a PC or is only it to be viewed with the link provided on this forum?

Enjoy the October 2017 issue of Cattails:
http://www.cattailsjournal.com/issues/cattails_final_Oct2017.pdf

warm regards,

Alan

Alan Summers
President, UHTS

We are pleased to announce the publication of Ekphrasis: Between Image and Word by Maria Pierides and Stella Pierides.
Fruit Dove Press https://fruitdovepress.com/ekphrasis-from-image-to-word-2/

Ekphrasis: Between Image and Word presents 24 new paintings by Maria Pierides – and a response to each of these paintings in haiku by Stella Pierides.


From the back cover:

Stay awhile, travel the paintings, hear the echoes in between, and tell your own story too.
Alan Summers
President, United Haiku and Tanka Society and co-founder, Call of the Page


I highly recommend this book. Take time to look carefully at the paintings whilst letting the words float in your consciousness.
Robert Lamoon, Visual Storyteller and Curator

From Welsh Country Magazine:
Maria Pierides' work is inspired by her surrounding landscape, cultural identity, history, myth, time – and poetry. Maria's visual abstractions are the outcome of conversations with the artist's being in a particular place at a given time, shortcuts of her lived experience in colour, in texture, in paint. The collaboration with Stella Pierides, who responds to the paintings with haiku, adds layers of meaning that expand in ever widening circles and offer new and unexpected inroads to the paintings. Between image and word; between substance, imagination, and reflection; and between the past and the present, a world resonates, inviting us to engage with the whole of our being.

For copies please email pieridesmaria@me.com
or fill out the Contact form below

UK: £18.00, incl. P&P
Europe: €20.00, incl. P&P
USA: $24.00, inl. P&P


Fruit Dove Press http://www.fruitdovepress.com

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renounce at A Hundred Gourds 4:2 March 2015:
http://ahundredgourds.com/ahg42/renku02.html

Enjoy! :-)

Alan

Quote from: flowerfox on October 06, 2017, 10:36:22 AM
Just to ask if someone could provide a link to -

A hundred Gourds 4:2 March 2015.

I would like to read more about Rasika

Thanks

Great!

Although haibun is fully booked this year, and already someone has paid to be on next year's course, we do have two spaces left on haiku, one on senryu...

But we are as excited about this year, and next year, as course participants are really making a difference.

e.g.

At the Vancouver Cherry Blossom competition, for instance, we have ten participants in the results!
http://www.vcbf.ca/haiku-invitational/winning-haiku/2017-winning-haiku

It's nigh on impossible, after hundreds of thousand of haikai verses over centuries, there is something still fresh to say.

warm regards,
Alan

Quote from: justlikeyou on September 22, 2017, 02:30:50 PM

Quote from: AlanSummers on September 22, 2017, 12:03:53 PM
You can also email us to be on the list for our next news:
admin@callofthepage.org

Done! Thank you kind Sir. :-)

Hi Rick,  :)

The second link just takes you to the overview of what courses we are offering:
https://www.callofthepage.org/learning/online-courses/

You'll see straight under online courses, four genres to click and choose.

Haibun is sold out, but we are doing another one in January. The other courses have either one or two spaces left.

e.g.

haiku:
https://www.callofthepage.org/learning/online-courses/haiku-courses/

But we will run these courses again in the new year.

I've updated the second link as all our current courses are now available. Many thanks for the prompt.

You can also email us to be on the list for our next news:
admin@callofthepage.org

warmest regards,

Alan

Quote from: justlikeyou on September 22, 2017, 11:21:51 AM

Quote from: AlanSummers on September 22, 2017, 10:41:13 AM
Wow, the haibun course sold out fast!  Karen has now put up the next one, starting in January 2018:
https://www.callofthepage.org/learning/online-courses/haibun-courses/


Spaces still available for haiku and tanka, though senryu is nearly booked up.
https://www.callofthepage.org/learning/online-courses/

Second link not working :-)

Will you being doing other classes Feb or Mar?

Wow, the haibun course sold out fast!  Karen has now put up the next one, starting in January 2018:
https://www.callofthepage.org/learning/online-courses/haibun-courses/


Spaces still available for haiku and tanka, though senryu is nearly booked up.
https://www.callofthepage.org/learning/online-courses/

Karen and myself over at Call of the Page are delighted to announce that our popular online courses have started again!

Currently the haiku and senryu courses are available to view:

haiku:
https://www.callofthepage.org/learning/online-courses/haiku-courses/

senryu:
https://www.callofthepage.org/learning/online-courses/senryu-courses/


All the courses, from haibun, tanka, haiku, and senryu will be going up:
https://www.callofthepage.org/learning/online-courses/

all the very best,

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