Poetry Journal cover art, and Alan Summers haiku shortlisted for the Museum of Haiku Literature Award, British Haiku Society, Blithe Spirit; and appearances in Haiku Society of America journal Frogpond, Asahi Shimbun, and Presence magazine

It's a wonderful experience for a poet to be published in journals that produce both fine editing, selection of poems,  and striking cover art.

Aubrie Cox is the new incoming editor of Frogpond, the journal of the Haiku Society of America, starting with vol. 39 : 1 Winter issue 2016 (printed Spring 2016).  

She suggested poets take a snapshot of the magazine in various surroundings.  What better than when two iconic British icons are involved!  That of bluebells, and a robin.


It was only fitting that today, when I received my copy of Frogpond, where my crow haiku was published, that another bird, a robin, came visiting.  The European Robin is a Winter/Christmas image in the U.K. and other parts of Europe.   

The robin haiku is unpublished, produced in honour of Frogpond being visited by this most friendly and iconic of birds in Britain.

Bluebells and Frogpond.

Such superb artwork for the cover of Frogpond by Christopher Patchel, that comes even more alive in outdoor photographs that I am reminded of this haiku in another publication, that of Presence magazine:

Presence magazine cover art and design by Ian Turner.

Another example of fine cover artwork is by Andrew Brown for the British Haiku Society journal Blithe Spirit.

An incredible delight and surprise was the fact that I was shortlisted for the Museum of Haiku Literature Award by esteemed artist/poet Debbie Strange via the British Haiku Society journal Blithe Spirit (Editor Dave Serjeant):

Commentary by Debbie Strange:

I am also honoured to be published by the Asahi Shimbun of Japan:

The haikai journals with web links:

Frogpond is the Haiku Society of America's journal edited by Aubrie Cox with Assistant Editor Jim Warner, artwork by Christopher Patchel: 

http://www.hsa-haiku.org/frogpond/aboutfrogpond.html

Presence is the U.K.'s largest independent journal of haiku literature with fine editors:

http://haikupresence.org/contribute

http://haikupresence.org/home

http://haiku-presence.50webs.com/guide/subscribe.html#_=_

Blithe Spirit is the journal of the British Haiku Society:

http://britishhaikusociety.org.uk/journal/

http://britishhaikusociety.org.uk/membership-new/

Asahi Shimbun, Japan, has a regular haiku column in English edited by David McMurray since April 1995, first for the Asahi Evening News: http://www.asahi.com/ajw/special/haiku/

More about one line haiku:

http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/all-those-red-apples-travelling.html

http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/alan-summers-one-line-haiku-in-premier.html

Robinsong:

http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/modern-haiku-alan-summers-robinsong.html

How Robins Became the Birds of Christmas

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/how-robins-became-the-birds-of-christmas/

A Selection of haiku by Alan Summers

Crows at an art exhibition, Kings Place, London photograph through window glass by Alan Summers

a scarecrow’s journey

even the leaves become

butterfly dreams

Publication Credit:

Scope (FAWQ  magazine July 2015 vol. 61 no. 6)

wildflowers adding a little evening to the daylight

Publication Credit:  Presence #52 (2015)

700,000 olive trees remember the butterfly

Publication Credit: 

Bones - journal for contemporary haiku issue 7 July 15th 2015

dandelion fluff

I lose count of my time

on this earth

Publication Credit:  Brass Bell July 2015 Showcase

Unforgiving rain I write my next epitaph in a dream

Publication Credit: Asahi Shimbun (Japan, July 31)

we learn to adjust

the clocks of our hands

borrowed moon

Publication Credit: 

sequence: Bones - journal for contemporary haiku no. 7 July 15th 2015

cobweb moon

a man’s opening lines

fill with mortar

Publication Credit: 

sequence: Bones - journal for contemporary haiku issue 7 July 15th 2015

conjugating verbs

across a battlefield

matins moon

Publication Credit: 

sequence: Bones - journal for contemporary haiku issue 7 July 15th 2015

Minnelli's films

the spirits of long lost actors

across a dance floor

Publication Credit: Asahi Shimbun (Japan, August 21st 2015)

the sound dome of bees

how many shades of color

can a human see

Selected by Isamu Hashimoto

Publication Credit: Mainichi Shimbun (Japan, July 7, 2015)

The colour rain

runs through our blood types

in wood and iron

Publication Credit: Asahi Shimbun (Japan, July 2015)

family home

the grain of the wood

enters his hands

Publication Credit: 

Prune Juice, Journal of Senryu, Kyoka, Haibun & Haiga, Issue Sixteen: July, 2015

mistfall

the swansongs

of orb spiders

Publication Credit:

Scope (FAWQ  magazine July 2015 vol. 61 no. 6)

quickening its rain

through the eye of a needle

the dragonfly’s glint

Publication Credit:

Scope (FAWQ  magazine July 2015 vol. 61 no. 6)

stray casuality

my tears reflected

as bandages

Publication Credit:

Ekphrastic haiku for Art Installation by Fairley Barnes and Call for Haiku Response

garden chores

I dig another timezone

from the backyard

Publication Credit:  Mainichi Shimbun (Japan, March 31st 2015)

corn moon

the jackdaw shifts

its iris

Publication Credit:  

Asahi Shimbun (International Haiku Day April 17th 2015); EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration 2015, The Year of Light 

Note:

Image taken by Alan Summers through the window

Image taken by Alan Summers through the window

Pangolin London exhibited a varied selection of works at the Kings Place building that celebrated the skills of modern British and contemporary sculptors.

pangolinlondon.com