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Messages - AlanSummers

#46
Journal Announcements / Re: Blo͞o Outlier Journal out!
September 02, 2022, 08:25:03 AM
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
#47
Journal Announcements / Re: Blo͞o Outlier Journal out!
September 02, 2022, 08:23:25 AM
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
#48
Journal Announcements / Re: Blo͞o Outlier Journal out!
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
#49
Journal Announcements / Blo͞o Outlier Journal out!
August 29, 2022, 11:55:07 AM
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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#50
Meetings and Other Gatherings / Avon Ginko (walk)
August 02, 2022, 01:07:16 PM
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/
#51
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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#52
Other Haiku News / Desert Rain
June 02, 2022, 12:12:52 PM
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
#53
Other Haiku News / Re: Don't read haiku!
May 01, 2022, 07:58:08 AM
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.
#55
Other Haiku News / Don't read haiku!
April 04, 2022, 10:28:26 AM
Rachna Singh in conversation with Alan Summers
https://www.thewiseowl.art/tete-a-tete-alan-summers
#56
Contests and Awards / aha haiku results!
March 07, 2022, 04:05:25 AM
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!
#57
Other Haiku News / Call of the Page supports Ukraine
February 24, 2022, 05:26:25 PM
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
#58
Other Haiku News / FREE event expanded!
January 31, 2022, 05:41:54 PM
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
#60
In-Depth Haiku: Free Discussion Area / Re: sine qua non
November 19, 2021, 01:21:03 PM
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.
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