Area 17: British haiku multi-events, including haiku, renga, renku, haibun, and haiga art at the Stripe Studio, University of Winchester with Notes from the Gean haiku journal on the road, plus The Kigo Lab

image by http://www.designengine.co.uk/johnstripe

Stripe Studio

Dr Mark Rutter: http://www.winchester.ac.uk/ACADEMICDEPARTMENTS/ENGLISHCREATIVEWRITINGANDAMERICANSTUDIES/PEOPLEPROFILES/Pages/MarkRutter.aspx

There is going to be a haiku/renga weekend at the University of Winchester on Sat 4th and Sun 5th of August, sponsored by the University and hosted by Mark Rutter and the poets of Notes From the Gean on the Road: Alan Summers, Alison Williams, Colin Stewart Jones, and Andy Pomphrey.

There will be haiga (haiku and image) and linked verse workshops and a ginko (haiku walk) in the Winchester watermeadows, where Keats wrote ‘To Autumn.’ All events except the ginko will be held in Stripe Studio 2, in the Stripe Building, University of Winchester.

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:http://www.winchester.ac.uk/ACADEMICDEPARTMENTS/ENGLISHCREATIVEWRITINGANDAMERICANSTUDIES/NEWSANDEVENTS/Pages/NewsandEvents.aspx

:http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/university-of-winchester-and-notes-from.html

:http://www.geantreepress.com/

Alan Summers

With Words, the Haiku Journal, and The Kigo Lab

With Words: http://www.withwords.org.uk

About The Kigo Lab: http://www.multiversesjournal.com/the-thin-white-expanse.html

http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/haiku-from-alan-summerss-recently.html

Colin Stewart Jones

Editor in Chief, Notes from the Gean haiku magazine, and proprietor of Gean Tree Press.

http://www.notesfromthegean.com/editors.html

http://www.geantreepress.com

http://www.geantreepress.com/search?q=basho

" A powerful collection—innovative, sublime, raw, beautiful. Great work..." -- George Swede.
Colin Stewart Jones will be launching his haibun collection with a short talk about the energy and disciplines of fusing haiku poetry with haiku-taut prose.

Andy Pomphrey
http://yahforyou.com/artstudios/andy-pomphrey/