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I find this distasteful and disgraceful

all FORMER editors of NftG have my personal email

anyone of you could easily have contacted me
you still send me notices of when you new mags come out!

btw there has been no breach of contract by me .. I simply moved the site from one domain to another
I could no longer afford to host 2

and all books which Gean Tree Press has copyright for must be properly cited and credited when used for any purpose
Alan is right my work is meant to be read online and not passed around...

btw for the record I have no control of The British Library

Also for the record I founded Gean Tree Press and Notes from the Gean ..look up "gean" and see if it is an Australian word or a Scottish one...

and also for the record, much to my subsequent regret, I did invite Lorin Ford to be my haiku editor
but all she founded was dischord, which can obviously be seen by the departure, in less than a year, of the original Gean Team she took with her to gourds...

Lorin be careful with your aspersions

I not only hold copyright to Gean Tree Press but I have also filed all correspondences for and future use

col

thank you chase :)

Dear Readers,

Notes from the Gean Literary Review is now soliciting essays, articles, book reviews, analysis of individual poems and any other resources or material that may be of interest to our readers which does not fit within the remit of Notes from the Gean monthly haiku journal.

Please consult our submissions page
http://www.geantreepress.com/Submissions.html

Submissions to geaneditor

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  I attended a reading by Prof Alan Spence tonight in Aberdeen:
  
  Tuesday 20th August, 7pm, Waterstone's, Union Bridge.
  ALAN SPENCE will read from his acclaimed new novel Night Boat, set in 18th Century Japan. Just published, it has already received stunning reviews. Alan is an award-winning poet and playwright, novelist and short story writer. He is the University's Professor in Creative Writing and founded the annual WORD Festival. Night Boat is Waterstone's Scottish Book of the Month. Admission is free and doors open at 6.30pm
  
  My review copy of his new book Night Boat (which tells the story of Zen master Hakuin) is coming soon and I will be interviewing Prof Spence for Notes from the Gean Literary Review which will be out in November.
  
  col
  

NFTG 022 august issue is up
lots of fine work in there come on in and read
flip book here:
http://www.geantreepress.com/Current_Issue.html

PDF is on the archives page


col :)

Dear Readers,

My birthday is on August 2nd.
So as a present to you all (and myself) the deadline for submissions to
Notes from the Gean monthly haiku journal will be extended for one day:

We are particularly interested in modern art forms, sequences, art for our cover, micro-poetry, multimedia, and cartoons as well as the usual haikai genres

all submissions for all genres to geaneditor

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  If you are not familiar with Notes from the Gean
  please consult our current issue and submissions page
  
  http://www.geantreepress.com/Current_Issue.html
  
  http://www.geantreepress.com/Submissions.html
  
  thank you all and cheers
  col

The Gean Tree Press website is now archived by the British Library

http://www.geantreepress.com/

021 Notes from the Gean's July issue is up
http://www.geantreepress.com/Current_Issue.html

Notes from the Gean monthly haiku journal submissions:

Subs are closed for Notes from the Gean's July issue. Thanks to all who responded to the call and to all who helped spread the word. We are now accepting works for August.

http://www.geantreepress.com/Submissions.html

cheers
col

Friends, Poets and Journeymen Lend me your verse.
Call for submissions

Hi all some figures for you: Notes from the Gean has over 400 members on its Facebook page; the Gean Tree Press page has 200 likes; and there are over 300 in our email contacts—yet subs are down 80% on previous months.
We seem to have the "members" but very few are sending in poetry submissions.
A monthly publication does rely more on the support of its submitters/readers than a quarterly and we need your support if we are to continue. You are obviously out there. Australia, for example, where are you? I have pissed off a few Aussies in my time, but an entire continent? Why is Gean getting no subs from Australia?
Gean encourages new writers and talent is not elitist in any way but Gean is a small volume and will remain so, (no more than 50 pages) however, we do not want to simply publish the same names all the time.
If you are in any of our groups or contacts list and read this I would encourage you to send in some submissions and help keep Gean thriving.

geaneditor

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  Mission Statement:
  
  We seek to encourage excellence, experimentation and education within haiku and its related genres. We believe this is best accomplished by example and not imitation. Our aim is for authenticity above all else. We therefore solicit your finest examples of haiku, tanka, haiga, haibun, renga/renku and micro-poetry so that we may "hear" your voices speak.
  
  
  
  Philosophy:
  
  Within English-language haiku (ELH) the debate is becoming increasingly polarised; with both editors and writers advocating either this style of writing or that. It is my belief that whilst we owe a massive debt to Japan, ELH should and must now grow into full maturity and no longer look over its shoulder. We could all continue to write pretty images about cherry trees or we could reach deeper into our own experience and produce works which are both authentic and relevant for a wider reading public and our literary peers. I believe that if we do not do this then we are all in danger of settling for a formulaic comfort zone in ELH and it will not develop into the fullness of what it can be.
  
  As a writer I try to give voice to my own experience and as an editor I aim to allow other writers the same opportunity. It is not my job to proscribe any style or restrict writers, but rather give them a platform for their voice to be heard and let the writers take ELH to wherever it may go.
  
  Colin Stewart Jones
  Editor
  
  http://www.geantreepress.com/Submissions.html

Dietmar Tauchner

is the European editor, alan

if you message me i will pass on his email

cheers
col :)

Yes!!!

take your time bren

you'll enjoy it all the more for that.

col

Aye feedback is always good and welcomed :)

col

coming very soon from Marlene Mountain and Gean Tree Press
the first in what I hope to become a regular series of books by different poets
Hindsight Foresight

020 Notes from the Gean monthly haiku journal, June issue is out now

subs are welcomed for our July issue

http://www.geantreepress.com/Current_Issue.html



cheers
col