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Showing posts with label The Humours of Haiku. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Humours of Haiku. Show all posts

Monday, March 18, 2013

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

Friday, January 18, 2013

Snow and winter haiku - in honour of the 2013 January snowy weather in the U.K.

Photograph of snow in Hull©Alan Summers 2010




snow flurry
a child thrusts his anorak
into it

Publications credits: Simply Haiku vol. 1 no. 3 (2003)



field of snow
the horses
back to back

Publications credits: Blithe Spirit vol. 19 no. 1 (2009); Haiku Friends Vol. 3 (Japan 2009)



snowed in
I watch the streetlamps
and dream of Narnia

Publications credits:
Blithe Spirit vol. 20 no. 4 (2010)




snowfall she takes her daffodils Underground

Publications credits:
Blithe Spirit vol. 19  no. 1 (2009); Does Fish-God Know (YTBN Press 2012)




powdered snow -
a crow’s eyes above
the no parking sign

Publications credits: The Mie Times, Japan (1999); Haiku International magazine (Japan 1999); Watermark: A Poet’s Notebook - Crows (2004); The In-Between Season (With Words Pamphlet Series 2012); Does Fish-God Know (YTBN Press 2012)

Award credit: Joint Winner, Haiku International Association 10th Anniversary Haiku Contest 1999




rook chatter
tracking each snowflake
to the end

Publications credits: Asahi Shimbun (2010)




solitary snowdrop
    inches
         in march snow

Publications credits: Azami Special Edition ed. Merrill Ann Gonzales (Japan 1995)




tilting at the world
the late morning finds
a smaller snowman

Publications credits: Blithe Spirit vol. 20 no. 4 (2010)




snowing
through the blizzard
particles of me

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)



Gare du Nord
the slow change of snow
on fake fur

Publications credits: Blithe Spirit (Vol. 22 no. 2 May 2012)




snow globe-
we toast each galaxy
with margaritas

Publications credits: Prune Juice issue 9 July 15th 2012




thunder snow
the wind-shifting scent
of fox

Publications credits: fox dreams (April 2012) edited by Aubrie Cox


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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Alan Summers in the new haiku anthology by Iron Press: The Humours of Haiku

"Once again, Iron Press, an independent and feisty publisher, makes a solid contribution to the library of contemporary haiku."

Michael McClintock
Modern Haiku magazine (USA) Issue 44-2 Summer-2013


The Humours of Haiku where a number of my haiku appear includes these two: 

hummingbird
I pull its colors
to create my own state

Publications credits: see haiku here (haiga #531, 2011); haijinx IV:1 (2011); The Humours of Haiku (Iron Press 2012); Does Fish-God Know (YTBN Press 2012)

Iron Press anthology version:

hummingbird
I pluck its colors
to create my own state



snowing
through the blizzard
particles of me


Alan Summers

Publications credits: 
The Haiku Calendar 2012 (Snapshot Press); The Humours of Haiku (Iron Press 2012)


Winner, 
The Haiku Calendar Competition 2011 (Snapshot Press)



The Humours of Haiku
edited by David Cobb


    £7.00
    Publication date: September 2012
    76 pages A6 page size
    ISBN 978-0-9565725-4-7


For anyone who thinks haiku arouse only a very narrow range of emotions, this anthology - with 240 haiku by over 100 poets - is a challenge to think again.

Sadness, anger, jealousy, pity, compassion, regret and joy are just some of the emotions covered, and all within the confines of the small three line poems - confines that can often prove liberating to the practitioners of this increasingly popular literary form.




INTERNATIONAL ORDERS
Iron Press are not able to take credit cards at present. To pay by credit card go to their Inpress webpage: http://www.inpressbooks.co.uk/the-humours-of-haiku/

For US orders or Eurozone:
Click at the top right of the webpage for more currency choices (where it states GBP) and you get a choice of Euros or US Dollars. :-)

ORDERING FOR UK CITIZENS
If you live in the United Kingdom you can order our books by sending Iron Press a cheque for the appropriate amount, plus £1 per book towards postage and packing.

Click on the logo below to download and print our order form and price list.
http://www.ironpress.co.uk/orders.html
http://www.ironpress.co.uk/txtord.htm


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