Haiku for Beginners - Group Online Course

About Karen and Alan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VS36AGVI6s

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We now have a new and brilliant course for beginners!

designed by Karen Hoy

Introducing... Haiku

https://www.callofthepage.org/learning/haiku-courses/introducing-haiku/

We hope to bring another beginners course later in the year.

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Previous course:

Haiku Beginners - Group Online Course

This is an entry level course, not only for people who are looking specifically to learn about writing haiku, but for those who are inspired to try this short form as a manageable way into starting creative writing.

With this course, we enjoy getting back to basics.

In the first assignment we will use short prose exercises to improve the brevity of our writing - a quality essential to haiku.  We will learn what to watch out for when reading haiku.  

For the second assignment we'll begin to write the brief snippets of words that make up a haiku.  

With the third and final assignment we will be ready to compose complete haiku.  Each assignment will have detailed feedback from the tutor.  The tutor's feedback is shared with all participants, so everybody learns from each other's work.

Participants should have at least three finished haiku by the end of the course, and ideas for continuing their writing.  

The course ends with an optional 20-minute phone or Skype chat with Alan to answer any outstanding questions about haiku in general or the student's work or next steps.

LEVEL:  beginners at haiku, or beginners at creative writing.

GROUP SIZE: up to 6.

START DATE:  Monday 17th October 2016, finishing 8 weeks later. 

FULL COST: £95 or US$125. 

EARLY BIRD COST: £80 or US$105 (if paying by Monday 26th September 2016).

BOOKING: by payment via PayPal to alan@withwords.org.uk
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BIOGRAPHY

Alan Summers MA (Bath Spa University)

Alan Summers, a Japan Times award-winning writer, is London born recently moved to Chippenham, in the South West of England. He has been teaching about haiku internationally, and its related genres, for over twenty years.

His work regularly appears in leading anthologies around the haiku genre:

Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years 

(W. W. Norton 2013)

Haiku 2014; Haiku 2015; and Haiku 2016 

Modern Haiku Press

The Disjunctive Dragonfly, a New Approach to English-Language Haiku 

(Red Moon Press 2012)

A Vast Sky, An Anthology of Contemporary World Haiku (Tancho Press 2015)

Journeys 2015 - An Anthology of International Haibun (prose form with haiku)

NHK World TV of Japan recently featured him in Europe meets Japan - Alan's Haiku Journey, and he has regularly appeared in Japanese newspapers:

http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/europe-meets-japan-alans-haiku-journey.html

Japanese newspaper quotes about Alan:

"Astonishingly moving haiku" 

YOMIURI SHIMBUN (Japan) January 2005

"Widely known haiku poet...as dry as vintage champagne"

YOMIURI SHIMBUN (14 million readers in Japan)

16th September 2002 (chosen while spending my birthday in Tokyo, Japan)

He is regularly asked to be a haiku competition judge:

The IAFOR Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award:

http://iaforhaikuaward.org/alan-summers-guest-judge

World Monuments Fund Haiku Contest:

http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/extended-judges-report-for-2013-world.html 

2015 World Haiku Competition

http://lyricalpassionpoetry.yolasite.com/2015-world-haiku-competition-open.php

And more recently The International Matsuo Bashō Award for haiku poets worldwide organised by The Italian Haiku Association.

Alan is a co-editor of five haiku-based anthologies, and four collections of haiku, and has been a co-founding editor of two haiku magazines.

He is the author of the forthcoming book

Writing Poetry: the haiku way (2017).

Also do check out our one-to-one individual feedback options too! 
http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/expert-one-to-one-individual-feedback.html

Europe meets Japan - Alan's Haiku Journey on Japanese Television NHK World

Great news! 
  
The video is now available on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VS36AGVI6s

Alan Summers writing while pretending there isn't a film crew in the tiny living room in Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England.

Europe meets Japan - Alan's Haiku Journey 
on Japanese Television NHK World

Broadcast times:

Monday, September 21   4:15/ 16:15/ 22:15 (UTC)

and corresponding local times on cable and satellite TV.

Alan Summers is a rare breed - one of very few professional British haiku poets. Although the tradition is rooted in Japan's literary history, Alan writes his poems in English. 

He takes inspiration from his daily life; from the picturesque surroundings of the English countryside to the busy streets of London. 

Hundreds of his haiku have been published and he has won several international competitions. With a pen and a notebook in his hand he is constantly trying to capture the passing moment.

Weblink:

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/tv/special09/index.html#0908

The guide to watch NHK World in different countries:
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/tv/howto/

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Call of the Page online internet courses run throughout the year include:  

haiku 
tanka
haibun and tanka stories
shahai (haiku with photography)

https://www.callofthepage.org/courses/

We also offer an 'early bird' rate for courses!





For further information, including schedule information and pricing, please email Karen: admin@callofthepage.org 





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Alan Summers is a Japan Times award-winning writer and Pushcart Prize nominated poet for haiku and haibun, as well as a Best Small Fictions nominated writer for haibun.   

His work regularly appears in leading anthologies around the haiku genre: 

Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years (W. W. Norton 2013); Earth in Sunrise: A Course for English-Language Haiku Study (Kumamoto University, Japan, textbook for teaching university-level English-language education) ed. Professor Richard Gilbert and David Ostman (Red Moon Press 2017); Haiku 2020 (Modern Haiku Press, 2021); Haiku 2014 (Modern Haiku Press); Haiku 2015 (Modern Haiku Press); The Disjunctive Dragonfly, a New Approach to English-Language Haiku (Red Moon Press 2012); Poetry as Consciousness - Haiku Forests, Space of Mind, and an Ethics of Freedom pub. Keibunsha, 2018, Japan).

"Astonishingly moving haiku" 

YOMIURI SHIMBUN (Japan) January 2005

"Widely known haiku poet...as dry as vintage champagne"

YOMIURI SHIMBUN (14 million readers in Japan) 

16th September 2002 (my birthday) 

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