A selection of haiku short verse poems around BIRDSONG and the SOUND OF BIRDS

BIRDSONG and the SOUND OF BIRDS -
A Series of haiku around birds and birdlife 

sunflower heart

the chiffchaff sings

its name

Alan Summers

tinywords 13.2 2013  (ISSN 2157-5010)

eJournal/eMagazine San Mateo, CA : D.F. Tweney : El Camino Press

http://tinywords.com/2013/09/13/13405/

Chiffchaff song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_C2Z9PWEaM
http://www.bto.org/about-birds/bird-id/willow-warbler-chiffchaff


Chiffchaff/Common Chiffchaff:
http://www.garden-birds.co.uk/birds/chiffchaff.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Chiffchaff
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Chiffchaff

roll of the apple…

I decide to let birdsong

back out of the box

Alan Summers

Under the Basho Vol 1.1 Autumn 2013

http://www.underthebasho.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=70&Itemid=90

an up-too-late moon

the blackbird whispers its song

as I stumble home

Alan Summers

Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum (Japan 2013)

this small ache and all the rain too robinsong

Alan Summers

Publications credits: Modern Haiku vol. 44.1 winter/spring 2013

         cool morning

birdsong

light on a distant cloud

Alan Summers

Publications credits: Modern Haiku, (1999); Azami Haiku in English Commemorative Issue  (Japan 2000); Birmingham Words Magazine Issue 3 (Autumn 2004); Birdsong - a haiku sequence  Together They Stood, Poetry Now (2004); Haiku Friends Vol. 3 ed. Masaharu Hirata (Japan  2009)

down side streets -

gulls turning the sky

in and out

Alan Summers

Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years. Ed. Jim Kacian, Allan Burns & Philip Rowland (W. W. Norton & Company 2013) http://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?ID=4294972241; The Disjunctive Dragonfly, a New Approach to English-Language Haiku by Richard Gilbert (Red Moon Press 2012) [Elemental Animsim p80] http://www.redmoonpress.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=32&products_id=179

cumulus clouds

a clattering of jackdaws

rearrange their pattern

Alan Summers

Publications credits: Blithe Spirit  vol. 20 no. 3 (2010)

note:

An archaic collective noun for a group of Jackdaws is a "clattering."

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Jackdaw

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackdaw

First recorded in John Lydgate's Debate between the Horse, Goose and Sheep, c.1430, as "A clatering of chowhis", and then in Juliana Berners Book of St. Albans, c.1480, as "a Clateryng of choughes."

A "clattering" of Jackdaws:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thekrankis/4375039089/

Other names for Jackdaws include caddesse, cawdaw, caddy, chauk, college-bird (from dialectal college "cathedral"), jackerdaw, jacko, ka-wattie, chimney-sweep bird, from their nesting propensities, and sea-crow, from their frequenting coasts. ..or just plain "Jack"

talkwildlife.com: http://www.talkwildlife.com/photo/a-clattering-of-jackdaws

four rosellas distant sounds to blue

Alan Summers

Publications credits: Azami #34 (Japan 1996)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosella

through an open window

a kookaburra laugh

enters

Alan Summers

Publications credits: Frogpond (Haiku Society of America journal, Summer 1994); Scope Feature (FAWQ, Australia, 1994); Micropress magazine; Micropress: best poems Ed. Kate O'Neill, Micropress NZ (1997; Moonlighting; sundog haiku journal: an australian year  (sunfast press 1997 reprinted 1998);   California State Library - Main Catalog Call Number : HAIKU S852su 1997

Kookaburra calls:   

http://www.soundboard.com/sb/KooKaburra_sound_clips

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feJZ7heOK2I

Seven Sisters the call of owls either side

Alan Summers

Publications credits: Blithe Spirit (British Haiku Society journal, March 2012)

train whistle
a blackbird hops
along its notes

Alan Summers

Publications credits:

Presence #47 (2012): The Haiku Foundation Per Diem (September 2012): The Elements

V to U

a parliament of rooks

shift their flight

Alan Summers

Publications credits: Icebox, Hailstone Haiku Group, Japan (2010)

Selected by Hisashi Miyazaki

fading last note

torresian crow sounds

the darkening sky

Alan Summers

Publications credits: Paper Wasp (Australia 1997); Azami (Japan 1998); Blithe Spirit, (June 2004); Shamrock Haiku Journal, Irish Haiku Society, Spring 2006; Sketchbook, A Journal  for Eastern & Western Short Forms Nov. 2007; Haiku Hike; THFhaiku app for iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch (2011)

Calls: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=079uBwOi2w8

Torresian Crow: http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=5786

http://www.graemechapman.com.au/library/viewphotos.php?c=85

the names of rain

a blackbird’s subsong

into dusk

Publications credits: Haiku News Vol. 1 No. 35 (September 2012); featured poet at Cornell University USA (Cornell University, Mann Library haiku showcase March 2013.)

haiku news: http://www.wayfarergallery.net/haikunews/?p=4018

http://www.wayfarergallery.net/haikunews/?tag=alan-summers

subsong soundtrack: http://tinyurl.com/blackbirdsubsong

 

A Blackbird in the rain...

Al.

Alan Summers, a Japan Times award-winning writer, regularly runs online classes and workshops on haiku, and related genres such as tanka, haibun, and tanka prose.  

For further information, please don't hestitate to contact Call of the Page Course Director Karen Hoy, who will only be too delighted to send you information about these intriguing short verse poetry genres.

Karen's email: admin@callofthepage.org

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Now out! Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts Vol.1., No.2., August 2013 plus Special Feature on haiku, tanka, and haibun

“A Brilliant Journal. Truly International.” 
- Hanif Kureishi

New Issuu updates on Lakeview Journal second issue: 

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Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts Vol.1., No.2., August 2013 

http://issuu.com/lijla/docs/lijlaaugust2013 
n.b. To know how to download the magazine see further below.

A journal that features creative work by internationally acclaimed and emerging writers/artists like Peter Daniels, Vanessa Gebbie, John MacKenna, Jonathan Taylor, Ashley Stokes, Gopikrishnan Kottoor, Murali Sivaramakrishnan, Nabina Das, Kevin Kadwallender, Archana Mishra, Gina Gibson and many more.

There is also a special feature that focuses on haiku and related poetic forms, guest edited very effectively by our advisory board member Alan Summers.

Runner Up in the Best Magazine category of Saboteur Awards 2013, London. We got a reader comment that goes ‘Lakeview is a breath of fresh air, no clichés and obvious choices. Here to stay.’ It is indeed a great achievement to get an international recognition soon after the publication of the first issue of our journal.

Jose Varghese
Chief Editor
August 2013

Jose Varghese's work can be found at: http://www.saltpublishing.com/shop/proddetail.php?prod=9781844719198

He will be appearing at The 13th International Conference on the Short Story in English, (15*)16 to 19 July, 2014, Vienna, Austria: http://www.shortstoryconference.org/jose-varghese

To download the magazine from Issuu.

There is no need to register with Facebook, there is an 'or' choice: 

Once you have confirmed your registration by clicking onto a confirmation email, it will direct you to start your preferences in publications.  You get to a second screen page where top left is a search finder icon of a magnifying glass.  Type in Lakeview Journal, and voilà! :-)

 First, click onto the lower right box with two arrows in different directions (which is highlighted in white).

Then go to top right where the box with an arrow is, and click that, which gives you this:

 

Click onto download and hey presto a pdf version of the magazine!  

I do recommend registering with Issuu as there are other fine magazines of various genres that you can download too.

warm regards,

Alan

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NOW FULLY BOOKED! Two places left on the Haiku Online Course starting October 1st

The Haiku Journal©Alan Summers

Fully Booked. The October 1st group. 

Due to demand we have created a November haiku class which is filling up fast.

You can email karen@withwords.org.uk for details 



Weblink: 
http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/fully-booked-tanka-course-but-still.html



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Online editions:  
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