A selection of
haiku across the years from Alan Summers
bright breeze
a sighted person fingers
the statue’s eyes
Publications credits: City: Bristol Today in Poems and Pictures
(Paralalia 2004); tinywords.com (USA 2007); Moonset Vol. 3 Issue 2 (Moonset
Literary newspaper llc. USA 2007)
City: Bristol Today in Poems and Pictures:
Old Man’s Beard a cyclist
wobbles the length of it
(one line haiku)
Publications credits: a handful
of stones (celebrating the extraordinary in the ordinary - the
official small stone e-zine 2011); A
Blackbird Sings, a small stone anthology ISBN 978-0-9571584-2-9
ed. Fiona Robyn & Kaspalita
Thompson (Woodsmoke Press 2012)
sunheat -
also parted in death
a ladybird’s wings
Publications credits: Blithe Spirit
vol. 8. no.3 (British Haiku
Society Journal 1998); Does
Fish-God Know (Yet To Be Named Press 2012
ISBN-10: 1479211044)
Old Curiosity Shop -
lacquered dolls
out in the mid-day sun
Publications credits: Shamrock,
Haiku Journal of the Irish Haiku Society (Ireland 2007)
white sails...
a wind has also shaped
the tree
Publications credits:
Azami issues #21 #22 & 27 (Japan 1994 & 1995); Mainichi Shimbun (Japan
2005); a procession of ripples (USA 2006); tinywords.com (USA 2006);
Aesthetics, (Bath Spa University, Summer 2007)
an attic window sill
a wasp curls
into its own dust
Publications credits: Woodpecker Special Issue, Extra Shuttle Issue ISSN
1384-6094 (Holland 1997);
Snapshots Four (1998); First
Australian Online Haiku Anthology (1999); Haiku International 2000 Anthology,
Japan ISBN 4-8161-0675-8 (2000); HaikuOz Information Kit (2001); The Omnibus
Anthology, Haiku and Senryu, Hub Editions ISBN 1-903746-09-4 (2001); Cornell
University, Mann Library, U.S. "Daily Haiku" poet (October 2001);
tinywords.com (2002); Yomiuri Shimbun, Japanese newspaper (for my birthday, September
16th 2002); The New Haiku (Snapshot Press 2002); Raku Teapot: Haiku Book and
CD pub. USA Raku Teapot Press in association with White Owl Publishing Book:
ISBN 1-891691-03-1 CD: ISBN
1-891691-04-X (2003); First Australian Haiku Anthology, Paper Wasp ISBN 0
9577925 9 X (2003); Yomiuri Shimbun Go-Shichi-Go Language Lab
(Japan 2005); Swot, arts & literature magazine, Bath Spa University (2007);
Travelogue on World Haiku Festival 2002 , Part 2 (Akita International Haiku Network Japan 2010); The Haiku
Foundation USA haiku 2012 iTunes app
Award credit:
Highly Commended, Haiku Collection Competition, Snapshot
Press (1998)
Joint 7th Best of Issue, Snapshot Five (1999)
Education:
HaikuOz Information Kit, the Australian Haiku Society’s
Getting Started With Haiku (2001)
over the nettles
where I know I just can’t go
orange-tip butterfly
Publications credits:
Presence issue 42 (2010)
almost lost
in the shimmer of water
several ducklings
Publications credits: Blithe Spirit vol.6 no.1 (British Haiku Society Journal 1996);
"English/Japanese Haiku" article by Nobuyuki Yuasa read and
translated for the Baiko Women's College (Japan 1996) by Nobuyuki Yuasa: mizu haete hikari ni kasumu
kogamo kana; "English/Japanese Haiku" by Nobuyuki Yuasa
article (Blithe Spirit, British Haiku Society Journal vol.8 no.3 1998); First
Australian online Anthology 1999; HI #42, Haiku International Association
(Japan 2001); See Haiku Here (Japan 2001); tinywords.com (USA 2001); Flowers on a
Shoe String (Institute of Physics
2002); Wild Flowers, New Leaves, Ami-Net International Press (2002); Raku
Teapot: Haiku Book and CD pub. USA
Raku Teapot Press/White Owl Publishing
(2003); First Australian Haiku Anthology, Paper Wasp ISBN 0 9577925 9 X (2003); Haiku Pathway Katikati,
Katikati Open-Air Art Inc. ISBN 0-476-00060-2 (2003); Yomiuri Shimbun (Japan 2004);
See Haiku Here (Japan 2009); "water" haiga eBook series, ed.
Kuniharu Shimizu (Japan, 2010); Haiku Pathway Katikati, Katikati Open-Air Art
Inc. (10th Anniversary Edition 2010); The In-Between Season (With Words
Pamphlet Series 2012)
Haiku
Park Credit:
Haiku
Pathway, Katikati, North Island,
New Zealand
handcarved into a river boulder
2000
http://area17.blogspot.com/2007/08/new-katikati-haiku-pathway-guidebook-is.html
http://members.dodo.com.au/janbos/katikati.html
the wind sways
a woven hat brim
once grass
Publications credits: Albatross, Contantza Haiku Society, Romania Issue
vol III no. 1 Spring-Summer/No. 2 Autumn-Winter 1994; Moonlighting, British
Haiku Society Profile (1996); sundog, an australian year (sunfast press 1997
2nd print 1998); California State Library USA
Haibun credit: The Crow Walk haibun HAIKU HIKE (World Walks) Part
of Crossover UK's 2006 'Renewability' project (2006)
woodfire
flickering in the silence
corralled horses
Publications credits: Modern Haiku vol. xxvi no. 3 (USA 1995); Moonlighting (Intimations Pamphlet Series British Haiku Society Profile,
1996); sundog haiku journal: an australian year (sunfast press 1997 reprinted 1998); California State
Library USA - 1997; First Australian Haiku online Anthology (1999); First
Australian Anthology (Paper Wasp 2000); Haiku Dreaming (Australia 2006); The
Crow Walk haibun (HAIKU HIKE, World Walks, Crossover UK 'Renewability' project
2006)); Stepping Stones: a way into haiku ISBN 978-0-9522397-9-6 (British Haiku Society 2007)
the rain
almost a friend
this funeral
Publications credits: Azami #28 (Japan 1995); Snapshots 4 (1998); First
Australian online Anthology (October 1999): Blithe Spirit article On minimalism
and other things DJ Peel Vol 9
No.3 (British Haiku Society Journal 1999); tempslibre (Belgium 2001); Cornell
University, Mann Library, U.S.A. "Daily Haiku" (Oct 2001); The
Omnibus Anthology, haiku and senryu
(Hub Haiku series 2001); Hidden (British Haiku Society Anthology 2002);
The New Haiku (Snapshot Press, 2002); First Australian Haiku Anthology (2003);
Birmingham Words Magazine Issue 3 (Autumn 2004); seven magazine feature: “Three
lines of simple beauty” (2006);
tempslibre (Belgium 2010); Blogging Along Tobacco Road: Alan Summers - Three Questions
(2010); Travelogue on World Haiku Festival 2002 , Part 2 (Akita International Haiku Network,
Japan 2010); The Temple Bell
Stops: Contemporary Poems of Grief, Loss and Change (Modern English Tanka Press
USA 2012); The Haiku Foundation USA haiku app for iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch
(2011); The In-Between Season (With Words Pamphlet Series 2012)
Award credit:
Highly Commended, Haiku Collection Competition, (Snapshot
Press 1998)
Joint 9th Best of Issue, Snapshot Five (1999)
all my mistakes
each click of the pen
the robin moves
Publications credits: Presence #24 (2004); "D'un ciel a l'autre" Anthologie de haiku de
l'Union Europeenne, (Edition de l'Association francaise de haiku 2006); Seven
By Twenty twitter-length fiction and poetry magazine (2011)
Oxford Street
the sweet chestnut vendor’s
blackened fingers
Publications credits:
Snapshot Press Haiku Calendar 2011
Award credit: Runner
up, Snapshot Press Haiku Calendar 2010
vigilante movie
my elbow
heavy on your knee
Publications credits: Symmetry
Pebbles (2011); The Humours of Haiku (Iron Press 2012 ISBN 978-0-956572-54-7);
Does Fish-God Know (Yet To Be Named Press 2012 ISBN-10: 1479211044)
open window
the cat dozes
half in half out
Publications credits:
Presence 3 (1996); Woodpecker, Extra
Shuttle Issue (Holland 1997); Iron
Book of British Haiku, (Iron Press 1998, Third print 2000 ISBN-10: 0906228670 / ISBN-13:
978-0906228678); tinywords.com (USA 2001); The Haiku Calendar 2002 (Snapshot
Press); Raku Teapot: Haiku Book/CD (USA Raku Teapot Press/White Owl Publishing
2003)
Award credits:
Runner-up, The Haiku Calendar Competition 2001 (Snapshot
Press)
late deadline
keeping owl hours
with the mice
Publications credits:
haijinx volume IV, issue 1 (USA 2011)
snowing
through the blizzard
particles of me
Publications credits:
The Haiku Calendar 2012 (Snapshot Press); The Humours of
Haiku (Iron Press 2012 ISBN 978-0-956572-54-7
)
Award credits:
Winner,
The Haiku Calendar Competition 2011 (Snapshot Press)
netsuke...
the hare with amber eyes
jumps back in again
the hare with amber eyes
jumps back in again
Publications credits:
Mainichi Shimbun (Japan 2011)
Award Credits: Honourable
Mention, Best of Mainichi 2011 (Japan)
bouncing rain
I force the hotel window
a little wider
I force the hotel window
a little wider
Publications credits:
Blithe Spirit (British Haiku
Society Journal 2012); Does Fish-God Know
(Yet To Be Named Press 2012 ISBN-10: 1479211044)
fading stars
a hedgehog haphazards
its way back home
a hedgehog haphazards
its way back home
Publications credits:
The Heron’s Nest (USA 2012)
thunder snow
the wind-shifting scent
of fox
the wind-shifting scent
of fox
Publications credits:
Fox Dreams (USA 2012 ed. Aubrie Cox)
dandelion wind
mending bridges
in the mist
Publications credits: Blithe Spirit (British Haiku Society
Journal Vol 22 No. 3 2012); Does
Fish-God Know (Yet To Be Named Press 2012 ISBN-10: 1479211044)
dandelion wind haiku by Alan Summers translated into Farsi:
باد پر قاصدک
مرمت کردن پل
در غبار
مرمت کردن پل
در غبار
bade por ghasdak
maremat kardan pol
dar ghobar
Farsi translation by Reza
Aerabi
rain on the river–
when does white become
its darkest colour
Publications credits:
Haiku News (online
newspaper written in the Japanese poetic form of haiku: the personal is the
political is the poetical 2012)
sleep disorder
the gas station lights
keep me company
Publications credits:
Blithe Spirit (British Haiku Society Journal 2012)
toy suns
the winter-dark rain
smashes the city
Publications credits:
Blithe Spirit (British Haiku Society Journal 2012); Does Fish-God Know (Yet To Be Named
Press 2012 ISBN-10: 1479211044)
green clouds
the scarecrow worries
a loose thread
the scarecrow worries
a loose thread
Publication Credits:
Asahi Shimbun (Japan 2012)
drifting rain
my hundred autumn rooms
to be alone
Publication Credits:
Mainichi Shimbun (Japan 2012)
cloud mountain
she screams her daughter's name
into the month of march
she screams her daughter's name
into the month of march
Publication Credits: British
Haiku Society Member’s Anthology, Air (2012)
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