Recent haiku poetry collections by Alan Summers

Three recent ebook collections by Alan Summers, with a few examples of monoku, monostich, and duostich verses:

Forbidden Syllables: 
https://bonesjournal.com/books/Alan_Summers-Forbidden-Syllables-bones-ed.pdf
Glint: https://proletaria730964817.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/glint.pdf
Comfort of Crows: 
https://www.velvetduskpublishing.com/uploads/3/7/5/9/37595991/the_comfort_of_crows_ebook.pdf

FORBIDDEN Syllables, released by Bones Library, 

is a collection of monoku & monostich.

the murmur of people through failed glass

late night television spills its whisky tumbler

Forbidden Syllables (Bones Library May 2020)

https://bonesjournal.com/books/Alan_Summers-Forbidden-Syllables-bones-ed.pdf

Glint:

foreclosure the family home hides its bricks 

pollen count a person denied a home

Glint by Alan Summers

published by:

Proletaria   politics philosophy phenomena  (February 2020)

https://proletaria730964817.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/glint.pdf

Comfort of Crows
Alan Summers & Hifsa Ashraf:

  A wonderful collaborative collection!

a dreaming forest busy as Hitchcock

Alan Summers

Perseids weaving dreams out of the blue 

Hifsa Ashraf

The Comfort of Crows 

Hifsa Ashraf and Alan Summers 

(Velvet Dusk Publishing, December 2019)

https://www.velvetduskpublishing.com/uploads/3/7/5/9/37595991/the_comfort_of_crows_ebook.pdf 

https://tinyurl.com/ComfortOfCrows

A deep bow to the three publishers!

Bones Library https://bonesjournal.com/essays/index.html 

Proletaria https://proletaria.org 

Velvet Dusk Publishing https://www.velvetduskpublishing.com

Alan Summers is a double Japan Times award winning writer, filmed by NHK Television (Japan) for “Europe meets Japan - Alan's Haiku Journey”; a Pushcart Prize nominated poet for haiku and haibun, and Best Small Fictions nominated for haibun. 

He is President of the United Haiku & Tanka Society, a previous General Secretary of the British Haiku Society (1998 until 2000) and Editor Emeritus for the multi-award-winning Red Moon Anthologies (USA) for best haikai literature from 2000 until 2005.

He has seven Haiku Collections: 

Does Fish-God Know 

(YTBN Press 2012) 

The In-Between Season  

(With Words Pamphlet Series 2012)

Sundog Haiku Journal: an Australian Year 

(Sunfast Press 1997)

Moonlighting  

British Haiku Society Intimations Pamphlet Series (1996)

Comfort of Crows (Alan Summers & Hifsa Ashraf) 

Velvet Dusk Publishing (2019)

Glint 

(Proletria 2020)

Forbidden Syllables 

(Bones Library 2020)

Alan is co-founder, and full-time Lead Tutor, for haikai-based Call of the Page: www.callofthepage.org