Haiku and Tanka online workshops by Alan Summers

Hi, I'm Alan Summers, and our online haiku and tanka workshops are designed for those considering learning a new skill; a new adventure; for self-development; wanting to go further into haiku or tanka poetry; or consolidating their start into all types of poetry by trying haiku or tanka first.  

You might also be interested in haibun or tanka stories (prose with haiku or tanka)?

Check out our most recent online classes for:
https://www.callofthepage.org/learning/ 

Or email Karen at: admin@callofthepage.org for the latest news and courses.

Check out our past online classes for haiku and tanka:  http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/call-of-page-online-courses-passion-of.html

Tanka are five line love poems, with a turn not unlike the longer Sonnet.

Haiku are usually three very short line poems, that rely on evoking emotions through concrete images.

There is a lot more to these two genres than the simple description, and many themes and approaches are allowed in these poems, to match your own style.

There is something for everybody.

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Whether for bookings or for further information, please do not hesitate to contact Karen who will be delighted to give you answers to your questions.

Karen's email: admin@callofthepage.org

Alan Summers, is a Japan Times award-winning writer, and recipient of a Ritsumeikan University of Kyoto Peace Museum Award for haiku.

He has a Masters Degree in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University; and is a past General Secretary of the British Haiku Society.

Alan is an experienced workshop leader, and editor, in haiku and other haikai literature disciplines, and appeared in literary festivals, and readings, all over Britain. 

"Astonishingly moving haiku"  YOMIURI SHIMBUN (Japan) January 2005


As well as being published in over 75 anthologies, and translated into 15 languages, Alan has his own work in collections, and co-edited a number of anthologies himself.

Haiku Collections:

“Does Fish-God Know” (YTBN Press 2012)
“A must-have book for any haiku fan.”
Tracey Kelly, Chicago/Bath musician and journalist
 
“Thank you for writing such a vital work.”
Paul David Mena, author of Tenement Landscapes (New York) published by Happa-no-Kofu (The Leaf-Miner Press) just after September 11 2001
 
“The In-Between Season”
With Words Pamphlet Series (2012)
 
“Sundog Haiku Journal: an Australian Year”
(Sunfast Press 1997 reprinted 1998) California State Library - Main Catalog Call Number: HAIKU S852su 1997
 
“Moonlighting”
British Haiku Society Intimations Pamphlet Series (1996)

Anthology Co-Editor:
Parade of Life: Poems inspired by Japanese Prints ISBN: 09539234-2-8  (Poetry Can/Bristol Museum and Art Gallery/Japan21 2002); The Poetic Image - Haiku and Photography (Birmingham Words/ National Academy of Writing Pamphlet 2006); Fifty-Seven Damn Good Haiku by a Bunch of Our Friends published by Press Here ISBN 978-1-878798-31-2  (2010 USA); Four Virtual Haiku Poets (YTBN Press 2012); C.2.2. anthology of short verse and haiku (YTBN Press 2013).

Parade of Life Co-editors: Paul Conneally; Alan Summers; and Kate Newham

Quotes from workshop participants:

This was the first online class I have ever taken and I have thoroughly enjoyed it! Thanks for providing the opportunity and for making it affordable. I learned so much and integrated a lot of what I learned.

Alan is a fantastic teacher, as you already know. I would love to take another course with Alan.  

A B (March 2013)

"You have a very gentle and encouraging way with the students – and you have been generous with your time in giving them deep and positive comments!" Isabelle, Ireland

"...you are one of the poets I have been most interested in. I love your haiku style."  Keiko, Yokohama, JAPAN


"You have a remarkable talent for touching and enriching people’s lives."     Mark, London 2009

"Alan is able to work with people who have no experience of poetry to encourage them to try it.  He watches and listens with patience and respect and offers guidance that is flexible enough to empower the workshop participants but firm enough to support them."

Rachel, Bristol (2010)

"Very many thanks again for all your constant and splendid help, support and patience.  I am well aware of the fact that I wouldn't be having such an amazing journey with my haiku if wasn't for you.

As you probably know by now, I use every corner of my life as a way of reflection of my psychological personal development - haiku in itself is great for this, but working with you has just elevated the experience a 100 fold.  I can not put into words how much this has meant to me, so as I tried to say on the phone the haiku is almost secondary, but of course both mean a lot to me.  Your support over the last couple of years or so have just been such an amazing gift to me - bless you."  FT 2011-2012

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British haiku multi-events, including haiku, renga, renku, haibun, and haiga art at the Stripe Studio, University of Winchester with Notes from the Gean haiku journal on the road, plus The Kigo Lab

 

image by http://www.designengine.co.uk/johnstripe

 Stripe Studio

Dr Mark Rutter: http://www.winchester.ac.uk/ACADEMICDEPARTMENTS/ENGLISHCREATIVEWRITINGANDAMERICANSTUDIES/PEOPLEPROFILES/Pages/MarkRutter.aspx

There is going to be a haiku/renga weekend at the University of Winchester on Sat 4th and Sun 5th of August, sponsored by the University and hosted by Mark Rutter and the poets of Notes From the Gean on the Road: Alan Summers, Alison Williams, Colin Stewart Jones, and Andy Pomphrey.

There will be haiga (haiku and image) and linked verse workshops and a ginko (haiku walk) in the Winchester watermeadows, where Keats wrote ‘To Autumn.’  All events except the ginko will be held in Stripe Studio 2, in the Stripe Building, University of Winchester.

   

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:http://www.winchester.ac.uk/ACADEMICDEPARTMENTS/ENGLISHCREATIVEWRITINGANDAMERICANSTUDIES/NEWSANDEVENTS/Pages/NewsandEvents.aspx

:http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/university-of-winchester-and-notes-from.html

:http://www.geantreepress.com/

  

Alan Summers

With Words, the Haiku Journal, and The Kigo Lab

With Words: http://www.withwords.org.uk

About The Kigo Lab: http://www.multiversesjournal.com/the-thin-white-expanse.html

http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/haiku-from-alan-summerss-recently.html

Colin Stewart Jones 

Editor in Chief, Notes from the Gean haiku magazine, and proprietor of Gean Tree Press.

http://www.notesfromthegean.com/editors.html

http://www.geantreepress.com

http://www.geantreepress.com/search?q=basho

 " A powerful collection—innovative, sublime, raw, beautiful. Great work..." -- George Swede.
Colin Stewart Jones will be launching his haibun collection with a short talk about the energy and disciplines of fusing haiku poetry with haiku-taut prose.

Andy Pomphrey
http://yahforyou.com/artstudios/andy-pomphrey/ 

Alison Williams
Notes from the Gean haiku editor
http://notesfromthegean.com/nftg/editors/41-editors/2-alison-williams.html
 
Karen Hoy
http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/karen-hoy-appears-in-major-new-haiku.html

And much more happening at the Stripe Studio:

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tanka workshops and tanka from Alan Summers at 140 And Counting on iTunes

a small death
the cracked shell
of a snail
now this delay
at the train station



Alan Summers
Previously published:
Mosaic Anthology (Bath Spa University 2009); Blithe Spirit vol. 20 no. 4 December 2010; The Strand Book Of International Poets 2010 (Strand Publishing 2010) ISBN: 9781907340062; Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka Vol. 3 (MET Press 2010)  ISBN 978-1-935398-27-1; 140 And Counting (Upper Rubber Boot Books 2011) ISBN 978-1-937794-04-0


sometimes
before falling in love
with my wife
again and again
the cries of swifts

Alan Summers
Previously published:
Blithe Spirit (Vol. 20 No. 3 2010, British Haiku Society)
140 And Counting (Seven by Twenty magazine pub. Upper Rubber Boot Books)

140 And Counting is a collection of the best twitter literature from the first two years of the journal Seven by Twenty’s history, on relationships, nature, work, animals, seasons, science fiction and fantasy, and mortality: 141 clever little allotments of literature by 119 authors in 1 exquisite ebook! Plucky underdog online journal Seven by Twenty is an online magazine using Twitter as its publishing platform, for readers at home and on mobile devices, which started publishing weekdaily in July 2009. Seven by Twenty specializes in literary and speculative writing that fits in a tweet – they mostly publish haiku and related forms (like scifaiku and senryu), and cinquains and American sentences, and very, very, very short stories.

iTunes Preview:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/140-and-counting/id495503391?mt=11 

• $4.99
• Available on iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Published:Dec 10, 2011
• Publisher: Upper Rubber Boot Books
• Seller: Joanne Elizabeth Merriam
• Print Length: 162 Pages
• Language: English
• Requirements: This book requires iBooks 1.3.1 or later and iOS 4.3.3 or later. Books can only be viewed using iBooks on an iPad, iPhone (3G or later), or iPod touch (2nd generation or later).

For anyone interested in online lessons and workshops the tanka journal way please do contact us at: admin@callofthepage.org



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University of Winchester and Notes from the Gean haiku journal present a haiku; haiga; and renku weekend

Haiku/Renga Weekend

There is going to be a haiku/renga weekend at the University of Winchester on Sat 4th and Sun 5th of August, sponsored by the University and hosted by Mark Rutter and the poets of Notes From the Gean on the Road: Alan Summers, Alison Williams, Colin Stewart Jones, and Andy Pomphrey.

There will be haiga (haiku and image) and linked verse workshops and a ginko (haiku walk) in the Winchester watermeadows, where Keats wrote ‘To Autumn.’  All events except the ginko will be held in Stripe Studio 2, in the Stripe Building, University of Winchester.

• Saturday August 4th: 10am: We will meet in Stripe Studio 2, followed by a ginko in the Winchester water meadows (bring camera as well as writing pad, pen, etc).

• Sunday August 5th: 10am: Stripe Studio 2: morning: haiga workshop; afternoon: renga workshop.

Anyone interested in taking part can contact Mark Rutter at mark.rutter@winchester.ac.uk or  flyingsaucers@btinternet.com.

All events are free and all are welcome.

A number of us are British Haiku Society members, and with the extra opportunity of talking to Notes from the Gean haiku journal Editor in Chief, and owner of the Geantree Press, Colin Stewart Jones, from Aberdeen, Scotland, and previous British Haiku Society haiku magazine editor Mark Rutter, this is really a rare chance for anyone wanting to know more about haiku publications, and the art of haiga, haiku, renga/renku, and haibun prose.

 
University of Winchester weblink:
http://www.winchester.ac.uk/ACADEMICDEPARTMENTS/ENGLISHCREATIVEWRITINGANDAMERICANSTUDIES/NEWSANDEVENTS/Pages/NewsandEvents.aspx

The Winchester Watermeadows haiku walk will be a stunning opportunity to walk where Keats wrote 'To Autumn' and also take part in a traditional Japanese custom in haiku poetry.


Saturday August 4th: 10am: We first meet in Stripe Studio 2, followed by a ginko in the Winchester water meadows (bring camera as well as writing pad, pen, etc).

http://www.lymington.org/placestovisit/winchester.html

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haiga artist Kuniharu Shimizu of Tokyo selects a haiku by Alan Summers for his artwork

Kuniharu Shimizu said:

" I like the contrast of the subject matters, big truck in the artwork, and a can of coke in the verse. However the sizes differ, both are man-made things, expressing their existence in their own ways."

Please feel free to add a comment or two both on this blog, and at Kuniharu Shimizu's website:
http://seehaikuhere.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/haiga-865-alan-summers-haiku.html

Donna Fleischer says:
 
"What an imaginative pairing. The gleam of the industrial world of machines and metal, and cans of cherry cola, with room for a morning star.
 
Posting this at my blog word pond, with delight! Thank you both!"

Donna's Word Pond link:
https://donnafleischer.wordpress.com/2013/03/12/area-17-eleventh-and-twelfth-days-haiku-poetry-showcase-by-alan-summers-at-cornell-university-usa/

About Donna: https://donnafleischer.wordpress.com/about/

Donna Fleischer

In December 2011, Fiera Lingue published seven new poems, honoring Donna among “those poets I evaluate as representative of our times” (Anny Ballardini, editor).

Her recently published poems include: "The Red Photogram", in Visions, Voices, and Verses, an anthology of poems of ekphrasis (Exiles Press and The New Britain Museum of American Art, 2012).

Donna has also been the assistant editor of bottle rockets, a journal of the small poem, and of bottle rockets press anthologies and serial volumes (2007 to 2013): http://www.bottlerocketspress.com

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Become well-versed in Haiku - A Skills³ workshop by Alan Summers for Wiltshire College

Skills³ is a new range of skills' experiences from Wiltshire College.

 

The haiku course led by Japan Times award-winning writer Alan Summers:

http://www.skills3.co.uk/experiences/detail.aspx?ref=CHAIKU&year=12%2F13

Buy before 17 Aug 2012 and save £5.00

Become well-versed in Haiku 

Trowbridge Campus 

Thursdays starting 1st Oct 2012    

7-9pm     4 sessions 

Click onto this link to read more, enquiries, or to book onto the course:

http://www.skills3.co.uk/experiences/detail.aspx?ref=CHAIKU&year=12%2F13 

Who is this course/experience for ?

This course is for everyone, whether new or familiar with the haiku genre. It’s both for those wishing to increase their confidence in creative writing, and those wishing to further their general written skills. This course is also ideal for those who enjoy trying something different, and new, in a relaxed, friendly, fun, supportive and inclusive atmosphere.

What will you experience ?

The following topics will be covered during the haiku course:

• The origin, background, and history of haiku through Classical, Modern, and Contemporary Japan.
• The various styles of haiku inside and outside Japan.
• A number of tools and techniques to understand, and write, contemporary haiku.
• How to keep a Haiku Journal.
• How to edit and strengthen your haiku drafts with confidence using a self-critical and analytical eye.
• What haiku editors and publishers are looking for in online and print journals, and competitions to send your haiku to (if you are interested in seeing your haiku published).
• Depending on course length we will also cover forms related to haiku such as tanka and renga. 

 

 

 

Practical - hands-on, exciting and rewarding quality skills' experiences.
  


Flexible - delivered at convenient times for the chance to learn in locations all over Wiltshire at a time to suit you.

 
     Fast - Acquire new skills or develop a new interest in just a few hours or days.
     You never know where they could take you to next!

Who are Skills³?

All the experiences offered through Skills³ will be delivered by professional and highly experienced tutors.  Skills³ is supported by the expertise of Wiltshire College. The county of Wiltshire's leading provider of adult training and learning.

Why Skills³? 

Practical, Flexible, Fast experience days for you and your friends to enjoy; whether you’re looking to improve on existing skills or you simply want to have some fun, Skills3 have an experience day waiting for you!

 

Alan Summers has a Masters Degree in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University; he is a past General Secretary of the British Haiku Society; and a Japan Times award-winning writer for haiku and renga.  His haiku are translated into 15 languages, including Japanese, Russian, French, as well as British Sign Language.

He is an experienced workshop leader, who enjoys creating a friendly, lively, and inclusive atmosphere, and isn't that the best way to learn after all?

 
Alan's poetry has been published and anthologized worldwide.  His pamphlet The In-Between Season was launched in Bath at the Royal Crescent Hotel, in July, and a collection is forthcoming Winter 2012/Spring 2013.

He is also regularly published in Japan, including Japanese newspaper publications: Yomiuri Shimbun; Asahi Shimbun; Mainichi Shimbun; The Japan Times; and The Mie Times. 

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Basho Has Left the Building: a unique collection of haibun by Colin Stewart Jones (Gean Tree Press)

Basho Has Left the Building by Colin Stewart Jones - purchase and read the ebook online now from ePub Bud!

Basho Has Left the Building is a collection of haibun and graphic haibun by Colin Stewart Jones with an  introduction by Jane Reichhold and back page blurb by Penny Harter:
 

This is a strong collection of haibun, exhibiting gritty power as Jones explores innovative formats, ranging from stream-of-consciousness to incorporating original art which often functions as visual haiku to accompany the prose. His subjects include thought-provoking political and historical commentary; relived childhood memories; expressions of personal despair, frustration, and confusion; and even tender and sorrowful love poems. His prose descriptions often read like prose-poems, and the incorporated haiku startle with their absolute rightness. I highly recommend Basho Has Left the Building. In these haibun, Colin Stewart Jones has left Basho’s neighborhood as he takes us into the 21st century of haibun.

—Penny Harter, co-author (with William J. Higginson) of The Haiku Handbook, and of Recycling Starlight, The Night Marsh, and the forthcoming prizewinning e-book of haibun, One Bowl.


Basho Has Left the Building can be viewed in a flip book format on PC, Mac, and most tablet devices.  To purchase a copy just click onto the following link:
http://www.epubbud.com/book.php?g=5UHN88YD#.T_3rb46nec0.blogger

What people are saying about "Basho . . . . ."

"A wonderful read and the design is superb!" -- Vida Tzetzka Ilieva

"A powerful collection—innovative, sublime, raw, beautiful. Great work..." -- George Swede

"Great work! A breath of fresh air. I hope this breaks out of the JSF niche market and hits the mainstream." -- Brendan Slater

"There's something bitingly fresh and clear about everything emanating from Colin Stewart Jones, and this fine work is no exception. I am splashed by his unexpected 'take' on things, his insight that makes me gasp at an inner level, and so to smile... I haven't finished reading 'Basho Has Left The Building' yet. Perhaps I'll just keep wandering around in there." -- Kathy Earsman

Basho has Left the Building
now available to buy in e-pub format

download for all devices and own forever for just $2.99 here:
http://www.epubbud.com/book.php?g=5UHN88YD#.T_3rb46nec0.blogger

Please feel free to circulate this message widely.


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haiku published by Mainichi Shimbun, Japan

St Pancras Station
John Betjeman's waistcoat
catches the breeze



Alan Summers
Selected by Isamu Hashimoto

Publications credits: Mainichi  Shimbun, Japan  (July 2012)





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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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ekphrastic haiku - Quilting Bee by Henry Mosler circa 1916-1917

Quilting Bee by Henry Mosler circa 1916-1917 

Henry Mosler
New York, New York 1841-1920 

Quilting bee–

an expert with the needle

she forgets her loss 

Alan Summers

Published: Asahi Shimbun, Japan (2012) 

Biography of Henry Mosler 

Gustave Mosler brought his family, including young Henry, to the United States in 1849. The Moslers, like many of their fellow German Jews, escaped the political unrest in their homeland that followed the revolutions of 1848 by settling in Midwestern communities, in this case Cincinnati, Ohio. There, the Moslers became leaders in their community and eventually developed a national reputation based on the family business—the manufacture of safes. 

Henry Mosler studied in Cincinnati with portrait and genre painter James Beard for two years and covered the Western theater of the Civil War as an artist-correspondent for Harper's Monthly. He studied for three years in Düsseldorf and Paris before returning home to begin his career. In 1874, Mosler again traveled to Paris, but remained for twenty years this time and developed a reputation for his paintings of Breton peasant life. Mosler's final homecoming to his adopted country came in 1894. In that year he set up a studio in New York City and turned his attention to historical genre with the same eye for detail that marked his earlier work. Paintings such as Pilgrims Grace (the painting that won the artist life membership to the National Arts Club of New York) and Quilting Bee draw upon Mosler's Breton experiences to create a realistic vision of the preindustrial past for modern America.

 

William H. Truettner and Roger B. Stein, editors, with contributions by Dona Brown, Thomas Andrew Denenberg, Judith K. Maxwell, Stephen Nissenbaum, Bruce Robertson, Roger B. Stein, and William H. Truettner Picturing Old New England: Image and Memory (Washington, D.C.; New Haven, Conn; and London: National Museum of American Art with Yale University Press, 1999)

Information by Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery
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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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Through a Glass Darkly: haiku at the Quest Gallery

Through a Glass Darkly 

a stunning new exhibition at the Quest Gallery, Bath

• The work of five Slovakian Glass Masters
• Zoltan Bohus  ‘Dark Secret’
• Paintings and works on Paper by Barrington Tobin

Private View
Wednesday 27th June 6.00pm –- 7.30pm

Followed by a special event at the Royal Crescent Hotel:

An Evening of Haiku with Tom Lowenstein and Alan Summers
 
As part of the gallery's new workshop and events programme, a 5 week haiku course has been running at Quest Gallery.  For the last few weeks, over 15 participants have been creating their own haiku in response to the gallery's changing exhibition programme.

In celebration of this and to continue to bring together these very different but complementary art forms, Quest Gallery invite you to An Evening of Haiku on Wed 27 June to take place at The Royal Crescent Hotel after their private view.

There will be guest speakers, celebrated poet and author, Tom Lowenstein and award winning Japan Times writer, Alan Summers, as well as the opportunity to hear the participants perform their own poetry.

Tickets are £10 each

There will be Through a Glass Darkly art gallery catalogues with haiku available on the night, which make great souvenirs of what promises to be an amazing insight into haiku poetry.




To book for the special event at the Royal Crescent Hotel please contact Sarah Jenkins:

sarah@questgallery.co.uk

or call Quest Gallery on: 01225 444142 

or why not drop in and enjoy the current exhibition:

http://www.questgallery.co.uk/

 
Royal Crescent Hotel/An Evening of Haiku Event details
Date: Wed 27 June
Time: 8pm
Venue: Sheridan Room, Royal Crescent Hotel, Bath

Join us and hear about how classic haiku came about, and what contemporary haiku has been up to in Japan.

Enjoy reading and hearing haiku created at Quest Gallery by the participants.

Ffi: http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/special-guest-speaker-announced-for.html

  

 
silhouettes of bamboo

at the edge of the garden

we swap stories

Alan Summers

 images©Quest Gallery 2012

An Evening of Haiku with Tom Lowenstein and Alan Summers at the Royal Crescent Hotel, Bath

 

The Haiku Event at The Royal Crescent Hotel

with Tom Lowenstein and Alan Summers

16 The Royal Crescent, Bath, England, U.K.

Wednesday 27 June starting 8pm

For information and to book
contact Sarah Jenkins, Projects Coordinator at Quest Gallery:

email:           sarah@questgallery.co.uk
Tel. No.        01225 444142

Tickets are £10 each and places are limited so book early to avoid disappointment. 

Quest Gallery event page:
http://www.questgallery.co.uk/index.php?id=489

Quest Gallery contact page:
http://www.questgallery.co.uk/index.php?id=6  

  Royal Crescent Hotel: http://www.royalcrescent.co.uk/

For further Information:

http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/special-guest-speaker-announced-for.html

Talks will be given on classic and contemporary haiku in Japan and the West, plus an overview of the haiku course at the Quest Gallery, and a reading from our incredible haiku course participants.

Quest Gallery catalogues that include a selection of the haiku created during the course will be available to purchase at the event alongside the With Words Haiku Journal notebook if you are inspired to write some haiku afterwards!

Looking forward to seeing you!

Alan, With Words

p.s.

Visit this great website with more photos of the hotel.   

Jane Austen Today: Staying in Bath's Most Luxurious Hotel in the Royal Crescent: http://janitesonthejames.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/staying-in-baths-most-luxurious-hotel.html 

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Alan Summers is a prize winner for the Japan Times Community Anniversary Haiku Competition 2012

I've just been told I'm a joint winner of the Japan Times Community Anniversary Haiku Competition.


the end of summer
tsukutsuku-bôshi heard
at suma temple



There is a legend that if the tsukutsukubôshi cicadas are heard to sing at Sumadera (Suma Temple) during late Summer that there is a small and special 'inbetween season' between Summer and Autumn.

I was fortunate to hear them sing at Sumadera in September 2002.


Here's an Image and sound recording: 
http://www.lizadalby.com/LD/39_cold_cicada.html

Sumadera:
http://www.justjapan.org/japan/kobe/photos/kobe09.asp


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