'Puddock', a Facebook based journal — rolling submission period

[Seaview (Marion Clarke)]

Posted on Puddock Facebook page by Colin Stewart-Jones 27.07.24:

Scottish Haiku Society and Scottish Haiku Group

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
@highlight #puddock
Welcome to PUDDOCK multi-media haiku journal.
SUBMISSIONS are open and you can submit at any time to:
colinstewartjones@gmail.com  editor

Send up to twelve works of unpublished Haiku, Tanka, Haiga, Vispo, Haibun, Renku, Rengay, Kansho, Book Reviews, Essays, Films, Reels, Cartoons, Multi-media or any other haiku related pieces.

Any theme. Any style. Please bear in mind phone screen sizes and Facebook parameters and make sure fonts are legible when making any concrete poetry, haiga or multi-media.

Include your name and location; country and city or town with each submission.

Work seen on personal pages such as Facebook, Instagram et.c are deemed as unpublished.

Copyright ©️ remains with the authors
We ask you cite 'Puddock' as first publication.
You should keep a copy of all links to your poems for your publication record and bibliography and cite as such:

'PUDDOCK' multi-media haiku journal https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61559665289085
and then list the individual links to your work.

'Gean Tree Press' retains the copyright ©️ of the entirety of the journal and print publication rights.

'Puddock' is the Scottish Haiku Society journal and a Gean Tree Press publication.

For those who are curious about the name, PUDDOCK means frog 🐸 in the Scots language.

[Joshua St. Claire]

Do we know if they accept haiku from non-members and those not using Facebook?

Edit: Non-members and social media Luddites are welcome. Responses are lightning fast!

This seems like a really great journal.

[Seaview (Marion Clarke)]

PUDDOCK Poem Of The Month For July: Rehn Kovacic

stone turtle
running at the same pace
as the mountain

The stone turtle,  a symbol of long life and good fortune, sits in situ in the writers garden. Standing still, we are gently given a lesson on how to be patient and appreciate life at a slower pace.

Both turtle and mountain are held in our gaze and demand our focus. In an interesting reversal of Chinese classical poetry the haiku moves, no pun intended, from the micro to the macro; from the turtle to the mountain. One is reminded of Kobayashi Issa's:

O snail,
climb Mt. Fuji,
but slowly, slowly

Kovacic"s use of oxymoron with running adds a nice
touch of humour though there is also the sense of everything running along smoothly. There is clever juxtaposition of shape in the continuity of rounded stone and subtle use of assonance. A lovely symbiosis that speaks of the eternal.

colinstewARTjones: Editor.