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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

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

Gean Tree Press books



off the press: would that that'd never been be : Brendan Slater
with foreword by Sheila Windsor

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

enjoy!

Gean Tree Press books:




Hot off the press: nothing but the wind by John Carley
with afterword by Michael Dylan Welch

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

enjoy!

Dear Poets,

There are just four days left to send in you finest haikai works for inclusion in our May issue of Notes from the Gean: monthly haiku journal's May issue

PLEASE SEND ANY SUBMISSION IN A SEPARATE EMAIL
IMAGES SHOULD BE 150 dpi

Subs close on the 1st of the month, full details here: http://www.geantreepress.com/Submissions.html

Please check out our current issue or archives to see what we are about.

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

We publish all haikai genres but are always particularly interested in multimedia, hearing new voices and would also love to see more people have a go at creating cartoons (let your funny side loose) and we always welcome images for our covers.

We also publish free to read e-books:
Don Baird's L.A. Thru a Lens came out last week;
and my publisher has kindly allowed me to put up my first book, A Seal Snorts Out The Moon, for free
http://www.geantreepress.com/Books.html

2 new books will be out very soon: one book of haibun by Ed Markowski; and a book of haiga by John Carley

Slainte and thank you for your continued support.

col


Colin Stewart Jones: Editor
Notes from the Gean: Haiku Monthly

www.geantreepress.com

Submissions are invited for Notes from the Gean monthly haiku journal. For inclusion in our March issue subs should be in hand by March 1st.

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

thank you,
col :)

My New Book! Catch 41
with a great preface by Jack Galmitz and blurbs by Susan Shand and Violette Rose-Jones

Read it here for free! http://www.yettobenamedfreepress.org/

Dear Readers,

Just a reminder that submissions are still open for our February issue of Notes from the Gean monthly haiku journal.
To be considered for this issue submissions must be in by February 1st. Follow this link for details:

http://www.geantreepress.com/subs

We are also looking for academic pieces, scholarly essays, commentaries, reviews etc
for the Notes from the Gean Literary Supplement

Gean Tree Press has published two e-books this week and we would love to publish more:
Our books are free to read and we charge no reading fee to the author.

http://www.geantreepress.com/books

If you have a complete manuscript or an idea for a book why not send me an email.

Thank you for your time and consideration
I look forward to reading more of your work

Col :)

http://www.geantreepress.com/books



stunning new collection by Jack Galmitz

an exploration of musicality in poetry

Hi folks
Notes from the Gean haiku monthly's
January issue is up

www.geantreepress.com

I have also been updating the archives
and added a facility to view the mag as a PDF

http://www.geantreepress.com/archives

cheers
and enjoy!

col :)

I am currently working my way through the Notes from the Gean archives and converting them to the flip format as there are many broken links.
To view the flip mags click on the image on the shelf.

I have also added the option to view Notes from the Gean as a PDF on our new archives page. The PDFs can be accessed by clicking on the link under each cover (below the shelf) on the archives page.

The choice is yours!

http://www.geantreepress.com/archives

col

Hi folks

Susan has put up her first post
on the Haiku Matters blog

comments and contributions are welcome

http://www.geantreepress.com/apps/blog/

col :)

Gean Tree Press is proud to bring you Pho to n
free e-book for your Christmas reading

Pho to n
by Fujiwara Akiko
Translated by Waku Miller



http://www.geantreepress.com/books

Fujiwara Akiko is a native of Kyoto, where she was born in 1974. She received the prestigious Rekitei Shin'ei Prize in 2005 for her first volume of poetry, Otozureru Koe (Visitor Voice) (Tokyo: Shoshi Yamada, 2005).

Fujiwara is also a past recipient of the annual prize from Gendaishi Techo (Contemporary Poetry Journal) for the best reader submissions of the year.
She presently lives and works in Tokyo. Pho to n, originally published in Japanese in 2007 (Tokyo: Shichosha), was Fujiwara's second volume of poetry. She will publish a third in January 2013 as an other mimicry (Tokyo: Shoshi Yamada).




Colin Stewart Jones: Editor
Notes from the Gean: Haiku Monthly

www.geantreepress.com