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Hi Carol,

It's really designed so that people can dip in and out, read a feature or a guest haiku spot etc...

That's why it's become a hybrid publication in that it's both a journal's edition, but also an anthology of natural history haiku to visit off and on through the year into next too!

Alan

Quote from: flowerfox on September 01, 2022, 05:51:08 AM
Hello Alan

I had thoughts of reading all the verses before posting, its a huge read, and will take some time to do so.

It is an absolute delight to read.

Thank you

Carol

Thank you Lorraine!

Also, inspired by our last Call of the Page shahai course, I'm bringing out a shahai journal!

I'll release submission details later in the year, with a new email address.

Alan

Quote from: Lorraine Pester on September 01, 2022, 05:13:05 AM

Quote from: AlanSummers on September 01, 2022, 04:55:54 AM
Thanks Marion,

It became a hybrid of journal issue and an anthology of natural history haiku.  Someone is keen to publish it as a standalone book too!

warm regards,
Alan

Quote from: Seaview (Marion Clarke) on August 31, 2022, 02:37:33 AM
From what I've read so far this is an excellent, bumper issue of Blo͞o Outlier Journal!

Well done, Alan. I look forward to browsing through it over the autumn months and beyond.

marion

hi Alan,

i'm trying to imagine it as a book with all those wonderful links.

exciting times!

beautiful issue. over and so beyond what i expected!

lorraine

Thanks Marion,

It became a hybrid of journal issue and an anthology of natural history haiku.  Someone is keen to publish it as a standalone book too!

warm regards,
Alan

Quote from: Seaview (Marion Clarke) on August 31, 2022, 02:37:33 AM
From what I've read so far this is an excellent, bumper issue of Blo͞o Outlier Journal!

Well done, Alan. I look forward to browsing through it over the autumn months and beyond.

marion

Now out!

Blo͞o Outlier Journal issue 3 
the natural history haiku edition 
Summer 2022
ed. Alan Summers   

dedicated to Gene Murtha

https://tinyurl.com/BlooOutlier3


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An Avon Ginko

A "ginko" is a traditional activity in Japan, and is the term for going on a walk, in a group, specifically to write poetry.

Come and write short poems with us, on a walk along the Chippenham Avon and its environs. There'll be plenty of time to stop, stare, and take notes along a maximum of 2.5 miles distance.

We'll then sit down outside (under outside cover according to weather) to finish three-line Japanese-style "haiku", or other short poems.

A hot or cold drink will be included in the ticket price. At all points there will be plenty of one-to-one guidance,  from published poets and experienced tutors Alan Summers and Karen Hoy of Call of the Page.

Seasons are important in Japanese poetry. We will be leading a summer, autumn, winter, and spring walking writing workshop.

You can book for the first one, a summer ginko, below. Anticipate dragonflies, swans, lily pads, and willow trees.

We have a free bursary place and a half-price place on each ginko. Please contact us for details of qualifying for these.

As well as affordability and income level we take into consideration social benefit, for instance if you are bereaved, or are requiring "social prescribing".

https://www.callofthepage.org/events/avon-ginko-workshops/

The 2nd Modern Kigo Project Competition
'SPRING Season' 2022 WINNERS

JUDGES' COMMENTS:
(Réka Nyitrai & Alan Peat)

https://haikubasecamp.wordpress.com/2022/06/16/the-2nd-modern-kigo-project-competition/



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Desert Rain

Haiku Nook: An Anthology

ed. Jacob Salzer & Nook editorial staff
May 2022

Dedicated to haiku poet Martha Magenta (1949-2020) &
the 600+ million people who don't have access to clean water:
https://jsalzer.wixsite.com/desertrain

Thank you!

I'm getting more and more poets new or or newish to try the deconstruct method.

warm regards,
Alan

Quote from: Seaview (Marion Clarke) on May 01, 2022, 03:36:47 AM
Very interesting. I enjoyed reading this interview, Alan. Thank you for sharing.

The Modern Kigo project: SPRING KIGO 2022 contest
(Judges: Alan Peat, Réka Nyitrai)

web link:
https://haikubasecamp.wordpress.com/2022/04/19/the-modern-kigo-project-spring-kigo-2022-contest/

AMP version:
https://haikubasecamp.wordpress.com/2022/04/19/the-modern-kigo-project-spring-kigo-2022-contest/amp/

Rachna Singh in conversation with Alan Summers
https://www.thewiseowl.art/tete-a-tete-alan-summers

The United Haiku and Tanka Society aha Haiku contest results are announced:
http://theunitedhaikuandtankasociety.com/aha-Guidelines/RESULTS/?fbclid=IwAR3nBkO0p-IOqq7H7_SRSVDTVME-WKg3lFla_iNfUBSmfGfKcjyc8LrJUes

Congratulations to everyone who is placed, and to all the poets sending around 1000 haiku that made this contest so successful and rewarding!

Call of the Page supports the sovereignty of Ukraine and feels for the innocent Russian people, and all those also those countries threatened by the new Soviet Union ambitions.

Call of the Page
https://www.callofthepage.org

Yay! Originally a sold out event, due to popular demand, the zoom audience capacity has been expanded! This is also a FREE event!

Photography and Haiku Poetry with Alan Summers and Karen Hoy

DATE AND TIME
Wednesday March 30th 2022
7pm - 8.30pm UK time
FREE
Virtual Meeting

https://rps.org/events/regions/east-midlands/2022/march/photography-and-haiku-poetry-with-alan-summers-and-karen-hoy/?fbclid=IwAR1dn88vjXglkGXKfwZ3wZvQRHCYK2muS6VwGE-g-2jd0X6t64IDBefMWH8

3rd Morioka International Haiku Contest (2021)
Judges: Toru Kiuchi, Michael Dylan Welch
https://morioka-haiku.jp/wp/wp-content/themes/morioka-haiku_jp/pdf/3rd-award.pdf

more commentaries
https://morioka-haiku.jp/en/wp-content/themes/morioka-haiku_en/pdf/3rd-award-en.pdf

Quote from: Lorraine Pester on January 07, 2022, 08:59:54 AM

Quote from: Seaview (Marion Clarke) on September 01, 2021, 06:49:02 AM
https://morioka-haiku.jp/en/wp-content/themes/morioka-haiku_en/pdf/3rd-award-


Judges
Michael Dylan Welch
Toru Kiuchi

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lorraine

Hi Billy,
Ah Shearsman, so possible we know certain poets in common re London, Bradford on Avon, City of Bath etc...

You said, about the quoted poems:
"In their own way, I think they are juxtaposing, but they may not be haiku. The first sets virus and bird together to produce an image; in the second the idea of a peter pandemic is a kind of metaphor, as pandemics of people don't literally exist.

For me they both lack one basic aspect of any poem, which is to do with the sounds they make. There's no real music, for me t least."

Both are about viruses, one is Avian Flu, and the other one is Covid-19 and family. The second one might refer to the infamous British Health Minister (for various reasons) who was called Peter Pandemic:
https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1282441/Charlie-Brooker-Antiviral-Wipe-Matt-Hancock-Peter-Pandemic-joke-BBC-video

Haiku is a peculiar bird, to continue with the bird theme, and is a genre but has form (pun intended) and an invisible form more potent than its perceived external form. Also, is haiku poetry, or prose, or in-between, or its own thing entirely? I'm talking about non-Japanese haikai of course, which often has its own musical shape.

Both haiku would fit easily into other types of poetry, to my mind, and even provide lyrical support to a song or two. But haiku are or derived from starting stanzas, so they are deliberate in their incompleteness, where the rest used to be within the following verse and despite losing linear narrative, would continue as ghost rhythm throughout the rest of the renga or renku poem.

Alan

Quote from: Billy Mills on November 19, 2021, 07:55:10 AM

Quote from: Dmitri on November 19, 2021, 07:47:27 AM
Billy Mills says: For me, one thing that all good haiku do is to produce an analogy by means of juxtaposition, two or more (usually two) disparate things brought together that open the readers mind in some way.

So, for you, would you say the following two examples, since they do not provide a juxtaposition of two disparate things, are not haiku? And please note, I am not disputing the merit of each piece. Buit just trying to be clear, and further the conversation.



from her chair by the window she says the virus is a bird
                                     Johnannes Bjerg

exit wendy from the peter pandemic
                        Lorin Ford

In their own way, I think they are juxtaposing, but they may not be haiku. The first sets virus and bird together to produce an image; in the second the idea of a peter pandemic is a kind of metaphor, as pandemics of people don't literally exist.

For me they both lack one basic aspect of any poem, which is to do with the sounds they make. There's no real music, for me t least.