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| original photo & this image of umbrellas©Alan Summers 2016 |
Modern haiku by Alan Summers during 2016.
mulled wine
my mother's voices
move within me
Alan Summers
Asahi Shimbun (2016, Japan)
the forest under stars taking blankets
[Fraser Island, Queensland, Australia]
Alan Summers
Poetry & Place anthology issue 1 2016
ed. Ashley Capes and Brooke Linford (Close-Up Books, 2016)
juniper the tether end of larksong
[The Lake District, Cumbria, England, U.K.]
Alan Summers
Poetry & Place anthology issue 1 2016
ed. Ashley Capes and Brooke Linford (Close-Up Books, 2016)
the mountain ash birdsong lichens
[The Lake District, Cumbria, England, U.K.]
Alan Summers
Blithe Spirit 26.1 (March 2016)
See one line haiku in English:
http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/all-those-red-apples-travelling.html
http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/all-those-red-apples-travelling.html
house clearance
room by room by room
my mother disappears
Alan Summers
Blithe Spirit 26.1 (March 2016)
Shortlisted for the Museum of Haiku Literature, Japan
Winner, The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Award for 2016
Winner, The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Award for 2016
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| photo of tickets for Alan Summers & Karen Hoy©Alan Summers 2015 |
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| photo by Alan Summers, van Gogh Museum 2015 |
moonlighting crows in other colors
Alan Summers
Frogpond (39:1 Journal of the Haiku Society of America) Winter Issue 2016
Anthology Credit: 2016 HSA Member Anthology
http://www.hsa-haiku.org/frogpond/index.html
Anthology Credit: 2016 HSA Member Anthology
http://www.hsa-haiku.org/frogpond/index.html
http://www.hsa-haiku.org/member-anthol.htm
Note:
Ekphastic haiku inspired by visits to the van Gogh museum, and the crows in the many art works created around the wheat fields:
a ripple through fields
whistling down the wind
the train on its way
Alan Summers
Blithe Spirit 26.2 (May 2016)
the rain in our fingers return journey
Alan Summers
Blithe Spirit 26.2 (May 2016)
the blue guitar
how many snails
dream of race
Alan Summers
Frozen Butterfly video journal. issue 4
deep into winter
the sun measured
in kettle clicks
Alan Summers
Presence issue #55 (2016)
my father's war
a story of the dark
collecting its own
Alan Summers
Presence issue #55 2016
Easter Sunday
a For Sale sign leans
into birdsong
Alan Summers
tinywords issue 16. 1 (2016)
sun off stubble a train in its landscape
Alan Summers
secret garden
a clue to everything
lies with the crows
Alan Summers
Mainichi Shimbun (Japan) July 2016
meadow borders the river clouds
Alan Summers
Presence #56 October 2016 issn 1366-5367
broken boats
the coastline tagged
with shearwaters
Alan Summers
Presence #56 October 2016 issn 1366-5367
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| original photo and this image©Alan Summers |
skittish clouds
the lightning tree
grows a crow
Alan Summers
Presence #56 October 2016 issn 1366-5367
pink season
a train picks up speed
into floating petals
Alan Summers
Blithe Spirit 26.4 winter issue 2016
Vol 26 No. 4 November 2016
sun-scarred desert
a rough tongued cat
scans the yard
Alan Summers
Blithe Spirit 26.4 winter issue 2016
Vol 26 No. 4 November 2016
Ullswater
conversations drift out
of reflections
Lake District, Cumbria, England, U.K.
Alan Summers
Blithe Spirit 26.4 winter issue 2016
Vol 26 No. 4 November 2016
wind-loaded snow
the shapes foxed
by morning
Alan Summers
British Haiku Society 2016 Members’ Anthology Beginning ISBN 978-1-906333-05-8
Karen Hoy, British Haiku Society 2016 Members’ Anthology Beginning ISBN 978-1-906333-05-8
a drone’s hum
the Hunter’s moon
clears cloud
Alan Summers
otata 11 (November 2016)
blood moon
the wind whips
up a fox
Alan Summers
otata 11 (November 2016)
wolf rain my taste maps a cloud
Alan Summers
otata 11 (November 2016)
dark fields
tightly the vee of birds
into pockets of forest
Alan Summers
the darkness
seeps out of leaves
resting spiders
Alan Summers
NHK World NHK Haiku Masters (Japan, November 2016)
new home
she promises me the world
in a lilac tree
Alan Summers
Hedgerow #99
selected haiku from the Homecomings sequence: https://hedgerowpoems.wordpress.com/2016/12/09/99/
selected haiku from the Homecomings sequence: https://hedgerowpoems.wordpress.com/2016/12/09/99/
travelling by rail
a super moon kept inside
all the skyscrapers
Alan Summers
Hedgerow #99
selected haiku from the Homecomings sequence: https://hedgerowpoems.wordpress.com/2016/12/09/99/
commuter town
a long wait for the lights
to change to Christmas
Alan Summers
Hedgerow #99
selected haiku from the Homecomings sequence: https://hedgerowpoems.wordpress.com/2016/12/09/99/
Also see my interview by the Sonic Boom magazine talking about “the
stiletto of poetry”
and the white paintings of haiku:
INTERVIEW WITH ALAN SUMMERS
SONIC BOOM
for writing that explodes...
Free PDF version of Sonic Boom:
http://media.wix.com/ugd/61020d_87ad491fe433421b87e2a87033aca1ad.pdf
http://media.wix.com/ugd/61020d_87ad491fe433421b87e2a87033aca1ad.pdf
Free PDF version of Sonic Boom:
More about White Paintings and " the action of light and shadow on the white surfaces":
ONLINE COURSES in haiku; haibun; tanka story; and standalone tanka and more:
Alan Summers provides individual feedback on haiku and related genres.
As part of the organisation Call of the Page, Alan Summers is the lead online tutor for haiku; haibun; tanka; tanka story aka tanka prose; and other related genres.
As part of the organisation Call of the Page, Alan Summers is the lead online tutor for haiku; haibun; tanka; tanka story aka tanka prose; and other related genres.
For further information contact Karen at:
Japan Times award-winning writer Alan Summers is the new incoming President of The Haiku and Tanka Society, and a founding editor of two ground-breaking online haiku magazines.
He appears in many leading haiku and tanka anthologies and journals.
His book Writing Poetry: the haiku way is due late Summer 2017.
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