Haiku for Beginners - Group Online Course

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We now have a new and brilliant course for beginners!

designed by Karen Hoy

Introducing... Haiku

https://www.callofthepage.org/learning/haiku-courses/introducing-haiku/

We hope to bring another beginners course later in the year.

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Previous course:

Haiku Beginners - Group Online Course

This is an entry level course, not only for people who are looking specifically to learn about writing haiku, but for those who are inspired to try this short form as a manageable way into starting creative writing.

With this course, we enjoy getting back to basics.

In the first assignment we will use short prose exercises to improve the brevity of our writing - a quality essential to haiku.  We will learn what to watch out for when reading haiku.  

For the second assignment we'll begin to write the brief snippets of words that make up a haiku.  

With the third and final assignment we will be ready to compose complete haiku.  Each assignment will have detailed feedback from the tutor.  The tutor's feedback is shared with all participants, so everybody learns from each other's work.

Participants should have at least three finished haiku by the end of the course, and ideas for continuing their writing.  

The course ends with an optional 20-minute phone or Skype chat with Alan to answer any outstanding questions about haiku in general or the student's work or next steps.

LEVEL:  beginners at haiku, or beginners at creative writing.

GROUP SIZE: up to 6.

START DATE:  Monday 17th October 2016, finishing 8 weeks later. 

FULL COST: £95 or US$125. 

EARLY BIRD COST: £80 or US$105 (if paying by Monday 26th September 2016).

BOOKING: by payment via PayPal to alan@withwords.org.uk
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BIOGRAPHY

Alan Summers MA (Bath Spa University)

Alan Summers, a Japan Times award-winning writer, is London born recently moved to Chippenham, in the South West of England. He has been teaching about haiku internationally, and its related genres, for over twenty years.

His work regularly appears in leading anthologies around the haiku genre:

Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years 

(W. W. Norton 2013)

Haiku 2014; Haiku 2015; and Haiku 2016 

Modern Haiku Press

The Disjunctive Dragonfly, a New Approach to English-Language Haiku 

(Red Moon Press 2012)

A Vast Sky, An Anthology of Contemporary World Haiku (Tancho Press 2015)

Journeys 2015 - An Anthology of International Haibun (prose form with haiku)

NHK World TV of Japan recently featured him in Europe meets Japan - Alan's Haiku Journey, and he has regularly appeared in Japanese newspapers:

http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/europe-meets-japan-alans-haiku-journey.html

Japanese newspaper quotes about Alan:

"Astonishingly moving haiku" 

YOMIURI SHIMBUN (Japan) January 2005

"Widely known haiku poet...as dry as vintage champagne"

YOMIURI SHIMBUN (14 million readers in Japan)

16th September 2002 (chosen while spending my birthday in Tokyo, Japan)

He is regularly asked to be a haiku competition judge:

The IAFOR Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award:

http://iaforhaikuaward.org/alan-summers-guest-judge

World Monuments Fund Haiku Contest:

http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/extended-judges-report-for-2013-world.html 

2015 World Haiku Competition

http://lyricalpassionpoetry.yolasite.com/2015-world-haiku-competition-open.php

And more recently The International Matsuo Bashō Award for haiku poets worldwide organised by The Italian Haiku Association.

Alan is a co-editor of five haiku-based anthologies, and four collections of haiku, and has been a co-founding editor of two haiku magazines.

He is the author of the forthcoming book

Writing Poetry: the haiku way (2017).

Also do check out our one-to-one individual feedback options too! 
http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/expert-one-to-one-individual-feedback.html

How a Haiku by Alan Summers was published by the world's largest circulated newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun on my birthday

For a Western haiku poet to be published in a Japanese newspaper is one thing, but to be in Japan is another, and actually buying the newspaper from a Japanese vendor.

To top that off, the haiku was planned to be published on my birthday!

When I locate the newspaper again, I’ll photograph the issue.

an attic window sill

a wasp curls

into its own dust

Alan Summers

Published by Yomiuri Shimbun (for my birthday, September 16th 2002).

Its first publication was when it was accidently sent by a colleague to this wonderful Dutch publication: Woodpecker Special Issue, Extra Shuttle Issue ISSN 1384-6094 (1997) so I was delighted when it was republished five years later in Yomiuri Shimbun.

Also, during a haiku walk in London during 1997, Hoshino Tsunehiko, particularly picked this haiku out as a good example, and explained why in depth.  This was very important to me as I had only been studying and writing haiku since 1993.

HOSHINO Tsunehiko :

Born in Tokyo in 1935. Professor of English and English Literature at Waseda University, Director of the Association of Haiku Poets, General manager of the Museum of Haiku Literature, Vice-President of the Haiku International Association.

He has published three collections of haiku, Rendako, Bakushu and Kantan, as well as a collection of critiques, Haiku to 'haiku' no sekai (The World of Haiku and Non-Japanese Haiku), which received the award for critique from the Association of Haiku Poets in 2003.

Haiku to Haiku no Sekai [Tankobon Hardcover] published by Waseda Daigaku Shuppanbu (2002) ·  ISBN-10: 4657027190 / ISBN-13: 978-4657027191

Three years later the attic sill haiku was republished by Yomiuri Shimbun:

Yomiuri Shimbun Go-Shichi-Go On-Line feature Language Lab (2005)

As well as appearing in the world’s largest circulated newspaper, it was published in

the Haiku International 2000 Anthology, Japan ISBN 4-8161-0675-8 (2000).

The haiku went on to be anthologised several times, but nothing could top my haiku appearing in a Japanese newspaper while I was in Tokyo. 


Yomiuri Shimbun:
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The Yomiuri Shimbun is a Japanese newspaper published in Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, and other major Japanese cities. It is part of the Yomiuri Group, Japan's largest media conglomerate.

It is one of the five national newspapers in Japan; the other four are the Asahi Shimbun, the Mainichi Shimbun, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, and the Sankei Shimbun.

Founded in 1874, the Yomiuri Shimbun is credited with having the largest newspaper circulation in the world, having a combined morning and evening circulation of 14,323,781 through January 2002.

In 2010, the daily was the number one in the list of the world's biggest selling newspapers with a circulation of 10,021,000. As of mid-year 2011, it still had a combined morning-evening circulation of almost 13.5 million for its national edition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yomiuri_Shimbun

Newspaper with the largest circulation in the world: Yomiuri Shimbun, 14,323,781 copies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_records_of_Japan

Yomiuri Mainichi circulation figures

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_the_world_by_circulation

Call of the Page runs regular and popular online courses in haiku, tanka and other related poetry:

www.callofthepage.org/learning/

Please don't hesitate to contact Karen for further information: admin@callofthepage.org

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Fourth 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/


an attic window sill
a wasp curls
into its own dust

Alan Summers


Publications credits:
Woodpecker Special Issue, Extra Shuttle Issue ISSN 1384-6094 (1997); Snapshots Four  (1998); First Australian Online Haiku Anthology (1999) http://users.mullum.com.au/jbird/as2.html now: http://www.haikuoz.org/faha/as1.html; Haiku International 2000 Anthology, Japan ISBN 4-8161-0675-8 (2000); HaikuOz Information Kit (2001); The Omnibus Anthology, Haiku and Senryu, Hub Editions ISBN 1-903746-09-4 (2001); Cornell University, Mann Library, U.S. "Daily Haiku" poet (October 2001); tinywords.com (2002); Yomiuri Shimbun (for my birthday, September 16th 2002); The New Haiku, Snapshot Press, (2002); Raku Teapot: Haiku Book and CD pub. Raku Teapot Press in association with White Owl Publishing Book: ISBN 1-891691-03-1 CD:  ISBN 1-891691-04-X (2003); First Australian Haiku Anthology, Paper Wasp ISBN 0 9577925 9 X (2003); Yomiuri Shimbun Go-Shichi-Go On-Line feature Language Lab (2005); Swot, arts & literature magazine, Bath Spa University (2007); Travelogue on World Haiku Festival 2002 , Part 2  (Akita International Haiku Network, Japan 2010)


Award credit:
Highly Commended, Haiku Collection Competition, Snapshot Press (1998)
Joint 7th Best of Issue, Snapshot Five (1999)

Education:
HaikuOz Information Kit, the Australian Haiku Society:
Getting Started With Haiku

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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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