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Thanks, Vida, that's very thoughtful of you to comment here. So pleased you're enjoying!  8) I hope you'll be inspired to find a partner and write some Yotsomunos, too.

Like Norman, I'm really chuffed to be part of this project.

- Lorin

Thanks, Don. I hope you'll enjoy it.  :D Let me know, after you've read it?

- Lorin

Darlington Richards are pleased to announce the launch of the Little Book of Yotsumonos.

Preview: http://darlingtonrichards.com/lboy_preview
Purchase: http://darlingtonrichards.com/lboy_buy



John Carley's recently-designed four-verse renku format is represented by 60 poems, wherein Carley collaborates with such well-known haikai poets as Hortensia Anderson, Lorin Ford, Carole MacRury, Sandra Simpson, William Sorlien and Sheila Windsor, together with an introduction to the form.

"I have always been impressed by John Carley's knowledge of Japanese linked verse... It is my sincere hope that this new form of linked verse will take root." —Nobuyuki Yuasa, Professor Emeritus, Hiroshima University, and translator of Basho's The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches (Penguin Classics, 1966).

"the Little Book of Yotsumonos opens up a world of poetic possibility, sourced by the old, both the Chinese and Japanese poetic traditions, yet fresh and original... I suspect few will be able to read this book without wanting to try and compose a yotsumono themselves." —Sonja Arntzen, Emeritus Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto, and translator of The Kagero Diary and Ikkyu and the Crazy Cloud Anthology.

Preview: http://darlingtonrichards.com/lboy_preview
Purchase: http://darlingtonrichards.com/lboy_buy


Norman & Moira
Darlington Richards Press
http://darlingtonrichards.com

Coming soon from Darlington Richards Press!

The Little Book of Yotsumonos
by John E. Carley with six other poets

Carley is well known for his ground-breaking and ongoing work in the practice and understanding of renga/renku outside of Japan. He has made valuable and topical contributions to current and previous issues of Journal of Renga & Renku as well as to various internet journals, and his Renku Reckoner website is a well-thumbed resource for poets working in the genre.

Darlington Richards Press
http://www.darlingtonrichards.com

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John E. Carley's partners-in-poems in The Little Book of Yotsomunos are Hortensia Anderson, Lorin Ford, Carole McRury, Sandra Simpson, William Sorlien and Sheila Windsor.

I believe this book will be valuable to anyone interested in contemporary haiku & related poems.

- Lorin

 :) well, I guess it can become as complicated as we want, but the basic thing, imo, is to keep one file  of one's unpublished haiku and another of one's published haiku.

- Lorin

It can be a grey area, but apart from the excellent advice to read submission guidelines carefully I feel the need to add the obvious: 'published' means published, whether somebody else publishes your work (eg journals, print or online) or you publish it yourself (in print or online). 'Published' means being made available to the public, it's as simple as that.

If you share your work with half a dozen friends in a coffee shop or 30 peers in a college classroom or post it for c & c on a private (membership only) website, such as THF forums which require you to be a member, Yahoo groups etc, that's not publishing it. If you share your work with all your facebook friends or post it on your blog which can be accessed by the public via an internet search engine, then you have published it.

Various journals have different requirements. If , after reading the submission guidelines thoroughly, you are still unsure in relation to any particular journal, include details of where you have first published your work or had it published and leave it up to that particular editor's discretion.

The same applies to competitions.

- Lorin

Hi Nu,
          Glad you're enjoying reading this issue.

Hi Jack and Andy, I'm glad you found ways of sorting out whatever the problem was.

Sometimes, it can just be a matter of clicking the 'refresh' button.

- Lorin

A Hundred Gourds 1:2 is now online

Issue 1:2 of A Hundred Gourds: a quarterly journal of haiku, haibun, haiga tanka and renku poetry is now online.

http://ahundredgourds.com

In this issue Ray Rasmussen introduces a feature on 'The Graphic Haibun of Linda Papanicolaou'. You'll find AHG's first renku section, as well as haiku, tanka, haiga and haibun, an essay on the 'New Junicho' renku, an interview with Peter Yovu and reviews of three haiku books.

In response to suggestions from our readers and for your ease in locating haiku, tanka and renku poems by author's name, AHG has now established an index of poets for these sections. This index has also been applied retrospectively to the AHG 1:1 haiku section.

A Hundred Gourds welcomes your submissions to the June Edition, Issue 1:3.

The deadline for all submissions to AHG 1:3 is March 15th.

--
Lorin Ford, haiku editor,
for the Editorial Team
A Hundred Gourds

Thanks, Nu and Don.

There's a lot of fine work published in AHG 1:1. Please enjoy reading it.

warm wishes,

Lorin

A Hundred Gourds 1:1 is now online

The first issue of A Hundred Gourds: a quarterly journal of haiku, haibun, haiga and tanka poetry is now online.

http://ahundredgourds.com

The Editorial Team of A Hundred Gourds extends warmest thanks to everyone who submitted their work for consideration for this, our inaugural issue. Thanks to your enthusiastic welcome, it's a bumper edition.

As well as haiku, tanka, haiga and haibun you'll find essays, interviews and a review in the Expositions section. There is also a memorial Feature dedicated to the late Janice M. Bostok, Australia's haiku pioneer.

Please join us in welcoming three new editors to the AHG team:

•   William Sorlien, of St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, is Renku Editor, already organising A Hundred Gourds' first renku section, which will be published in AHG 1:2.

•   Susan Constable, of Vancouver Island, Canada, is the new Tanka Editor. Susan's first tanka section will be published in AHG 1:2.

•   Mike Montreuil, of Ontario, Canada, is the new Haibun Editor. Mike's first haibun section will be published in AHG 1:3.

A Hundred Gourds welcomes your submissions to the New Years' editions.

•   Special notice for tanka & renku submissions to AHG 1:2 & 1:3

The submission period for tanka and renku only has been extended for the March issue, AHG 1:2. Submissions of tanka and renku received up to the 31st December will be considered for AHG 1:2. Tanka and renku submissions received between January 1st and March 15th will be considered for AHG 1:3. Please read the submissions guidelines page on the AHG website for further details.

The deadline for haiku, haibun, haiga and for the Expositions section of AHG 1:2 remains at December the 15th.

--
Lorin Ford, haiku editor,
for the Editorial Team
A Hundred Gourds

Dear Readers and Contributors,

The inaugural issue of A Hundred Gourds will be a big issue. We are on track for the publication date of December 1st.

Thank you to everyone who submitted work for A Hundred Gourds, 1:1.

As well as haiku, tanka, haibun and haiga, the December issue will contain a retrospective feature on Janice M. Bostok's haiku life, essays by John Carley, Jack Galmitz and Chen-ou Liu and interviews with two haiku poets whose names we're keeping as a surprise.

Submissions for A Hundred Gourds 1:2, the March issue, will remain open until the deadline of December 15th.

We welcome your submissions for AHG issue 1:2 any time up to and including December 15th. After that date, all submissions received will be held over for consideration for the June issue , A Hundred Gourds 1:3.

Further details about submissions to all of the editors are on the A Hundred Gourds temporary webpage, here:

http://ahundredgourds.haikuhut.com/


On December 1st, this same url will take you to the inaugural issue and the temporary webpage will be abandoned.


Lorin Ford, haiku editor
A Hundred Gourds
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