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I guess one of the reasons I loved haiku was that it wasn't about the names, but more that there was a growing body of work from a global perspective.

My first introduction to haiku was Local Seasonings, from Brisbane and highly respected Queensland and Australian poet Ross Clark:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Clark

Title   Local Seasonings: A Haiku Journal
http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C221651
Volume 1 of Sweetwater poets. Blue series
Authors   Ross Clark, American Haiku Archives
Publisher   SweetWater Press, 1993
Length   20 pages

I appreciated the inclusivity of those haiku, and the fun when I caught Ross Clark's book launch where he performed the haiku, and they were performed completely differently from the manner in which I'd read them to myself.   I was hooked from then on.

Popping into a small branch library in Ipswich, Queensland I was amazed to come across two copies of a book called The Haiku Handbook.  I immediately borrowed the book and read it cover to cover twice over three days, and again before I took it back.

The next big book was stumbling across one of the earlier Haiku Anthologies, the one that featured Janice Bostok's work (The Haiku Anthology, edited Cor van den Heuvel).

As much as I admire single author's work, it's the overall atmosphere of reading haiku day after day (regardless of whom it's by) that thrills me.  But I still delight in being caught offguard by a single haiku, reminding me that, despite its brevity, it can still take your breath away, and resonate long after.

I could give a long list of names starting from Janice Bostok and Ross Clark, but it's really the entire body of work (in English) that is my favorite English-language haiku poet.

warm regards,

Alan

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For those of you who might not know how to download a pdf version of the magazine, I've included some images to help at my blog: http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/now-out-lakeview-international-journal.html


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Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts Vol.1., No.2., August 2013
http://issuu.com/lijla/docs/lijlaaugust2013

A journal that features creative work by internationally acclaimed and emerging writers/artists like Peter Daniels, Vanessa Gebbie, John MacKenna, Jonathan Taylor, Ashley Stokes, Gopikrishnan Kottoor, Murali Sivaramakrishnan, Nabina Das, Kevin Kadwallender, Archana Mishra, Gina Gibson and many more.

There is also a special feature that focuses on haiku and related poetic forms, guest edited very effectively by our advisory board member Alan Summers.

Runner Up in the Best Magazine category of Saboteur Awards 2013, London. We got a reader comment that goes 'Lakeview is a breath of fresh air, no clichés and obvious choices. Here to stay.' It is indeed a great achievement to get an international recognition soon after the publication of the first issue of our journal.

Jose Varghese
Chief Editor
August 2013

Jose Varghese is Assistant Professor of English at Sacred Heart College in Kochi, India. His collection of poems 'Silver Painted Gandhi and Other Poems' was listed in Grace Cavalieri's Best Reading for Fall 2009, in Montserrat Review.

His stories are accepted for publication in The Salt Anthology of New Writing 2013, UK and Unthology, UK, and a poem by him is accepted for the Red Squirrel Anthology 10RED, UK. He has done a Faber Writing Course in London under Marcel Theroux and Hanif Kureishi and writes for Thresholds: Home of the International Short Story Forum, Chichester University, UK.

He is invited for the 13th International Conference on the Short Story in English to be held at Vienna in July 2014. He was the winner in River Muse 2013 Spring Poetry Contest, USA, and a runner up in the Salt Prize (UK) 2012. His forthcoming book Silent Woman and Other Stories is slated for publication in 2013.




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From our Editor-in-chief:

Jose Varghese
Sorry for the slight delay in uploading the second issue of Lakeview. But it is a jumbo edition with around 400 pages, and will be online tonight.

This was announced four hours ago today, Monday 2nd September 2013.

Dear Bob,

There's two questions here, I'd guess, one about punctuation in the English-language writing world as a whole, and rules or quirks picked up by individual haiku poetry writers, whether right or wrong.

It's best to know the general guidelines to correct grammar and then utilise that knowledge within your own haiku writing.

Sometimes we use punctuation as a visual feature, utilising some of its grammatical character, but also veering close to the concrete poetry nature.

I use both N-dashes and M—dashes, but there is contradictory advice on their uses, Oxford usage suggests M—dash is for brackets only.

It's an interesting question because I wonder how many of us are using grammar similar to the methods of other poetries outside haikai literature.

Ellipses were very popular back in the old century as were N-dashes, but it became monotonous on a visual level, because haiku are such incredibly short poems.

I feel variety in haiku is essential, especially if you consider a collection at some point in the future.

warm regards,

Alan

Quote from: bobjects on August 29, 2013, 09:17:42 PM
Sorry if this reveals me as an extreme newbie, but are there guidelines regarding ellipses vs. dashes for use as a cut?

    Thanks!
    Bob

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Many thanks Don,

I just went through the sequence of choice, and I'm still pleased with what Tom and myself achieved with the selection.

Haiku poetry showcase by Alan Summers at Cornell University USA:
http://tinyurl.com/CornellUniversityAlanSummers

warmest regards,

Alan

Quote from: Don Baird on June 30, 2013, 04:54:47 PM
Congratulations, Alan!  This will be a pleasant, creative journey, I'm sure.

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Welcome Paula!   :)

I don't know if you went to the Haiku North America 2013 event on the Queen Mary in Los Angeles at all?   Roberta is indeed a fine haiku writer, and has a keen sense of humor and great company.  I haven't met John Stevenson in person, but a big fan of his work.  Here's a review of one of his haiku collections:  http://www.haijinx.org/IV-1/reviews/liveagain.html

Roberta's website can be found at: http://www.robertabeary.com/

I wonder if you might like Fay Aoyagi and Peter Yovu?

Fay:
http://www.modernhaiku.org/bookreviews/Aoyagi2004.html
http://www.modernhaiku.org/essays/Lanoue-FayAoyagiHaiku.html
http://simplyhaiku.com/SHv4n1/haiku/Aoyagi.html

Peter Yovu:
http://www.poetrysociety.org.nz/node/426
http://www.poetrysociety.org.nz/node/400
http://www.modernhaiku.org/bookreviews/Yovu2010.html

Quote from: PaulaB on August 25, 2013, 07:47:51 AM
Roberta Beary if I have to pick one. But I really like the John Stevenson that was posted.

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Coming soon...Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts Vol.1. No.2 August 2013.

Preview of the cover:
http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/coming-soonlakeview-international.html



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The Sword of Cliché: Choosing a Topic
by David Grayson
http://www.hsa-haiku.org/frogpond/2011-issue34-1/essay.html




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I've just included an extended Judge's Report at my Area 17 blog:
http://area17.blogspot.com

warm regards,

Alan



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There are already two possible new pieces in the pipeline from guest bloggers on the theme of 'place' being inspired by Amos White's post.

If anyone else is interested in place and identity, please contact me via: alan@withwords.org.uk

warm regards,

Alan

Dear Bob,

What a tragic loss, so many people die or become paraplegic when diving into pools, manmade or natural, without checking, just trusting.

Thanks for sharing his verse.

warmest regards,

Alan

Quote from: Bob Martin on August 14, 2013, 08:00:39 PM
In junior high a classmate of mine, Danny Callaghan, a roughian and class clown, claims to have written this haiku for an English class. He died in college, performing a one-and-a-half forward flip while drunk into a pool he did not realize had been emptied. I still can't believe he wrote it, although I hope he did. I haven't been able to find it online.

     Death is beautiful,
     Else why does summer die so,
     Garbed in flaming gold?

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Sense of Place and Identity a new series, starts at Area 17.

If anyone else is interested in being part of this series please do email me, with a subject line of Sense of Place and Identity at: alan@withwords.org.uk

Amos White is our first Guest Blogger with Haiku Poetry and the Sense of Place:
http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/amos-white-guest-blogger-haiku-poetry.html

warm regards,

Alan


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ha wa ha wa mo/fuyu no kozue wo/naku karasu

"leaves, leaves"
cry out the crows
from winter treetops

Yokoi Yayu - 1702-1783

English version: The Art of Haiku: Its History Through Poems and Paintings by Japanese Masters,  Stephen Addiss (Author)

Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc (2012)
ISBN-10: 1590308867
ISBN-13: 978-1590308868


A Hokku and Haiga Master
His grandfather was a student of the Teimon school of hokku.

The poet his grandfather studied under was Kitamura Kigin (1624-1705). Kigin being the hokku master of Basho.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yokoi_Yay%C5%AB