16th, 17th, and 18th days of Alan Summers as virtual haiku poet in residence at Cornell University USA

Cornell University, Mann Library 
http://haiku.mannlib.cornell.edu/category/author/alam-summers/



snowing through the blizzard particles of me

Alan Summers



Publications credits: 
The Haiku Calendar 2012 (Snapshot Press); The Humours of Haiku (Iron Press 2012); The In-Between Season (With Words Haiku Pamphlet Series 2012)

Award credits:
Winner, The Haiku Calendar Competition 2011 (Snapshot Press)

Iron Press U.K. orders:
http://www.ironpress.co.uk/books/humours.html

International orders (top right alter currencies to US$ or Euros):
http://www.inpressbooks.co.uk/the-humours-of-haiku/












The In-Between Season (With Words Haiku Pamphlet Series 2012)

The pamphlet will be available as an eBook later in 2013
http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/in-between-season-haiku-pamphlet-will.html
http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/haiku-from-alan-summerss-recently.html








dandelion wind
mending bridges
in the mist

Alan Summers

Publications credits:
Blithe Spirit (British Haiku Society Journal Vol 22 No. 3 2012); Does Fish-God Know (YTBN Press 2012)


باد پر قاصدک
مرمت کردن پل
در غبار

bade por ghasdak
maremat kardan pol
dar ghobar

Farsi and romanised Farsi translations by Reza Aerabi





first quarter moon
dancing pinheads burst
into new angel DNA

Alan Summers

Publications credits:
Asahi Shimbun (Japan, 2012); Does Fish-God Know (YTBN Press 2012)





Does Fish-God Know:
http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/does-fish-god-know-haiku-collection-by.html
http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/new-book-review-of-does-fish-god-know.html
http://www.yettobenamedfreepress.org/p/does-fish-god-know.html

Second Day: Haiku poetry showcase by Alan Summers at Cornell University USA

Cornell University, Mann Library
Supporting learning and research in the life sciences, agriculture, human ecology and applied social sciences: http://mannlib.cornell.edu/

A month of haiku poems by Alan Summers
at Cornell University USA

Daily Haiku series created by Tom Clausen
http://haiku.mannlib.cornell.edu/

image©Alan Summers

the rain
almost a friend
this funeral

Alan Summers





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 (1999); Cornell University, Mann Library, U.S.A. "Daily Haiku" (Oct 2001); The Omnibus Anthology, haiku and senryu  (Hub Editions 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 (2010); Blogging Along Tobacco Road: Alan Summers - Three Questions (2010); Travelogue on World Haiku Festival 2002 , Part 2  (Akita International Haiku Network 2010);  The Temple Bell Stops: Contemporary Poems of Grief, Loss and Change (Modern English Tanka Press 2012); THFhaiku app for iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch (2011); The In-Between Season (With Words Pamphlet Series 2012)

Award credits:
Highly Commended, Haiku Collection Competition, (Snapshot Press 1998)
Joint 9th Best of Issue, Snapshot Five (1999)


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Haiku from Alan Summers's recently launched pamphlet The In-between Season (With Words Pamphlet Series)

colourwash
the first autumn rain seeps
through cartridge paper




         

The In-Between Season

With Words Pamphlet Series (2012)
www.withwords.org.uk


             Toshugu shrine pines
              I try to stay as still–
              mist and dew

              東照宮の 松静か 霧と露


Japanese trans. Hidenori Hiruta, Akita, Japan


My haiku pamphlet was launched at the Royal Crescent Hotel as part of the Quest Gallery talk and event, as a result of the highly successful Haiku at Quest Gallery workshops:

http://activateperformingarts.org.uk/classes/2012/5/30/haiku-course-quest-gallery-bath

http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/through-glass-darkly-haiku-at-quest.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/exhibition-of-the-week-michael-kenny-spirit-and-matter-quest-gallery-bath-7734217.html

Alan Summers is a Japan Times award-winning writer; a recipient of the Ritsumeikan University Peace Museum Award for haiku; Foundation Member, Australian Haiku Society; and General Secretary of the British Haiku Society (1998-2000).

Alan is a haikai literature editor for two online magazines, and the founder and lead tutor of With Words.


“astonishingly moving haiku”
   Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan (2005)



Other haiku poetry collections by Alan Summers:

sundog haiku journal: an australian year
(sunfast press 1997 reprinted 1998): archived at the California State Library - Main Catalog Call Number : HAIKU S852su 1997

Moonlighting
Intimations Pamphlet Series, British Haiku Society (1996)



colourwash
Publications credits: Haiku International #33 (Japan 1998)

Toshugu shrine pines
Publications credits: World Haiku Review Japan Article - Vending machines and cicadas (March 2003); Hermitage (2005); Travelogue on World Haiku Festival 2002 Part 1 (Akita International Haiku Network, Japan 2010)




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The In-Between Season haiku pamphlet will be launched at An Evening of Haiku with Tom Lowenstein and Alan Summers at the Royal Crescent Hotel

 














The In-Between Season

haiku/poetry

With Words Pamphlet Series

This pamphlet is dedicated to my wife, haiku poet and so much more,. Thank you for all the love and support over the years.

The pamphlet is also dedicated to:

Bill Higginson (1938-2008) 

Always greatly missed, and an inspiration, Bill (William J. Higginson) was considered to be the foremost American authority on haiku, as well as famous as the co-author of The Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku, and author of Haiku World: An International Poetry Almanac and The Haiku Seasons: Poetry of the Natural World.

The Haiku Handbook is one of the most widely-read English-language haiku books.

Janice Bostok (1942-2011)

The First Lady of Australian Haiku, and a hugely supportive friend and colleague in my early career.  She is still greatly missed by me.

Hidenori Hiruta

Founder, and Akita International Haiku Network Secretary General (Japan) who regularly translates my work into Japanese with a panache I will always treasure.

powdered snow–

a crow’s eyes above

the no parking sign

Alan Summers

Joint Winner, Haiku International Association 10th Anniversary Haiku Contest 1999 (Japan)

Publication credits: The Mie Times (Japan 1999); Haiku International magazine (Japan 1999)

Alan Summers is co-founder of Call of the Page that offers online courses in haiku; haibun; senryu; tanka; and shahai.

www.callofthepage.org

Details of our various types of courses:

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

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