Librarian’s Cache:
Poet of the Month – Alan Summers
by Dan Campbell
I am delighted to be given the honor of being Poet of the Month by The Haiku Foundation.
Showing posts with label Alan Summers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alan Summers. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 06, 2021
Wednesday, June 03, 2020
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
Glint:
Comfort of Crows
Alan Summers & Hifsa Ashraf:
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)
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)
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)
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:
(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
Tuesday, December 31, 2019
End of the Year: The Comfort of Crows – a haiku collaborative!
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| https://www.velvetduskpublishing.com |
The Comfort of Crows
Hifsa Ashraf and Alan Summers
(Velvet Dusk Publishing, December 2019)
Hifsa Ashraf
The idea of a collaborative book came around at least as far back as September 2018 when Hifsa revealed a series of fantastic and startling illustrations that caught the spirit and energy of crows.
Hifsa is from Pakistan. She is a multilingual poet who writes poetry in English, Urdu, and Punjabi.
More crows and corvid relatives from Hifsa!
And do check out:
Many thanks to Chrissi Villa and Shloka Shankar of Velvet Dusk Publishing!
Thrilled to have blurb from:
Anna Maris
Chair of the literary section of the Swedish Author’s Union, and a board member of the Swedish Haiku Society.
Anna Maris writes haiku in Swedish and English. She is the chair of the literary section of the Swedish Author’s Union and a board member of the Swedish Haiku Society. She teaches haiku in schools and has a haiku circle at the temple of Yangtorp in the South of Sweden. Anna has won many awards for haiku, senryu and renku. Her bilingual single collection Lifedeathetc (2016) is published by Red Moon Press. She has two earlier haiku books, published in Swedish. Her work has been included in numerous anthologies, including A New Resonance 11. She is currently employed as a journalist and media trainer in Sweden and Ukraine.
Kris Tsujikawa
Delighted that the "crowtojournalist" gave us a great blurb as she really knows about crows, and her feedback as blurb was crucial.
John Stevenson
A former President of the Haiku Society of America, and former editor of the HSA journal, Frogpond, one of the oldest and most widely circulated journals of English-language haiku. He is the Managing Editor of Heron’s Nest, while his own haiku have won awards in innumerable competitions. He is co-founder of the Route 9 Haiku Group, which creates the Upstate Dim Sum journal. He is one of the most highly regarded living haiku poets in the world.
Alan Summers
And of course Alan Summers and the catalyst for the illustrations, and finally a collaborative collection around crows, and helped by crows!
Alan Summers is also co-founder of Call of the Page along with his wife Karen Hoy:
And if you want to know about monoku:
the one line haiku:
Sunday, February 25, 2018
Haiku Walk (ginko) in Stamford, Lincolnshire, part of Verse 2018, Stamford Arts Centre festival
Live event, haiku walk, in Stamford which was voted the number town in Britain!
GINKO (HAIKU WALK)
with Alan Summers
12:00 PM Saturday 14th April 2018
We will all meet up at Stamford Arts Centre
Find us and how to get there:
Stamford Arts Centre's Postcode: PE9 2DL
A Haiku Walk is called a ginko in Japan (ginko 吟行)
gin 吟 act of making a poem
ko 行 act of walking
The g is a hard sound “gain"
After a brief introduction to haiku, the very short poem genre, we’ll set out on a walk - known as a ginko (吟行) in Japan - looking for inspiration. He will also read a number of his haiku revealing how this poetry is different to what we might know.
Afterwards, in a relaxed session, Alan will show how our rough notes and drafts can become polished haiku. Directly sketching from nature, or life, is one of the most common approaches to haiku. We will also learn about combining two images that create surprising connections, that make the brief haiku verse go beyond the count of its words.To help capture the images that do this, Alan has designed an exercise that will add another dimension to pairing images.
Bring a packed-lunch, and Stamford Arts Centre will provide the sushi!
Alan Summers is President of the United Haiku and Tanka Society; Haibun Editor, Blithe Spirit (Journal of The British Haiku Society); and co-founder of Call of the Page.
About Alan: https://www.callofthepage.org/about-1/
Useful filming of a haiku walk from start to finish:
NHK TV (Japan) filmed Alan’s Haiku Journey which includes a ginko in the last five minutes : http://tinyurl.com/AlanHaikuJourney
We meet up first of all at the arts centre for a brief introduction to haiku, and then start our walk:
Stamford Arts Centre
27 St Mary's Street
Stamford
Lincolnshire
Postcode: PE9 2DL
https://www.stamfordartscentre.com/whats-on/all-shows/ginko-haiku-walk#
Stamford lies near to Birmingham, Leicester, and Peterborough...
Stamford lies near to Birmingham, Leicester, and Peterborough...
Further notes, webpages, and information:
Stamford Arts Centre
Really useful photographs inside and outside Stamford Arts Centre which is right next to Stamford Theatre:
Various. Photos of rooms and outside:
Visit information for Stamford
Stamford, Lincolnshire
In 2013, Stamford was rated the best place to live by The Sunday Times:
1st. Stamford, Lincolnshire
The ducks are quacking and the river sparkles in the spring sunshine. Across the green of Stamford’s famous water meadows…sipping takeaway coffees from the cosy independent cafes, such as the Fine Food Store, that line the gloriously Georgian high street.
The town has starred in period dramas from Middlemarch to Pride and Prejudice, just one lucky by-product of Stamford being named Britain’s first conservation area. The architecture and honey-stone streets really are magnificent, but that’s not all Stamford has to recommend…this friendly town offers…
haiku poem:
those who stop —
ducks taking colour
from the river
Alan Summers
brass bell: a haiku journal curated by Zee Zahava (January 2017)
n.b. For those of you who think haiku is only a 575 pattern of syllables, I also write them too. :-)
The Stamford arts festival “Verse 2018”
online brochure: http://stamfordartscentre.com/information/brochures/verse-2018/
online brochure: http://stamfordartscentre.com/information/brochures/verse-2018/
Verse 2018 Brochure:
United Haiku and Tanka Society:
Alan Summers is a previous General Secretary of the British Haiku Society:
Alan and Karen of Call of the Page regularly run online courses for haiku and related genres of writing: https://www.callofthepage.org/learning/
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