new haiku and tanka Summer online courses for 2019!

https://www.callofthepage.org/learning/

For those who have written haiku for a while now, these online courses might assist with a useful 2019 revisit:

Intermediate Haiku (Shorter)

https://www.callofthepage.org/learning/haiku-courses/intermediate-haiku-shorter-course/

Intermediate Haiku Course (Longer Course)

https://www.callofthepage.org/learning/haiku-courses/intermediate-haiku-longer-course/

If you have never written haiku before, or want to push yourself to get to another stage of writing:

Introducing... Haiku

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

We also have an exciting advanced tanka course if you've been writing them for a while:

Tanka - Shape and Sound

https://www.callofthepage.org/learning/tanka-courses/tanka-shape-and-sound/

We also have regular email one-to-one sessions as well as our popular Skype feedback conversations!

https://www.callofthepage.org/learning/

Lead tutor/mentor Alan Summers is a Japan Times award-winning writer, and a Pushcart Prize nominated poet: https://www.callofthepage.org/about-1/

For further information or questions please don't hesitate to contact Karen at:

admin@callofthepage.org

Call of the Page online courses - The Passion of Haibun; Senryu; Ekphrastic Tanka and haiku

All our courses can be regularly sold out.
If you would like to know more about our future courses we'd love to hear from you. 

We have a space on the haiku, but they do tend to go fast!
https://www.callofthepage.org/learning/online-courses/haiku-courses/

Please do contact Karen at:
admin@callofthepage.org

About Karen and Alan:
https://www.callofthepage.org/about-1/


Update (October 2017):
Due to the popularity of The Passion of Haibun courses we are running one in 2018 right after the New Year. If that's too soon to kickstart things, we will run another haibun course later in 2018:
https://www.callofthepage.org/learning/online-courses/haibun-courses/

Call of the Page regularly runs popular online courses on haiku and related genres such as haibun; tanka; senryu; shahai; tanka stories etc...

You can also use the contact form:

https://www.callofthepage.org/contact/

A still taken from the NHK TV production:

Europe meets Japan - Alan's haiku journey 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VS36AGVI6s 

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Passion of Haibun course Sold out!

Senryu Sold out!

Ekphrastic Tanka (and haiku) Sold out!

Many thanks for your interest in Call of the Page (formerly With Words) online courses.  These courses are conducted entirely by email in small groups. 

The assignments on all of our courses are given detailed feedback by award-winning poet Alan Summers, and prompts and assignment briefings are written by Karen Hoy.

Booking is made with payment of the course fee via PayPal to alan@withwords.org.uk.  

We will confirm receipt of your payment and your place on the course.  Please indicate in your PayPal message which course you are booking on, or you can email us separately, at admin@callofthepage.org with this information.  

Many of our courses fill just before the early bird rate expires, so if you are booking close to this date, please email Karen at: admin@callofthepage.org to check on places, or go on a waiting list.

The Passion of Haibun course is now sold out! We are very excited about this new course, as haibun gains popularity.

START DATE: Monday 27th March 2017

LEVEL:  Participants should have some existing experience of writing haiku, but may be beginners, "improvers", or advanced, at haibun.

GROUP SIZE: Up to 4.

If you would prefer to write "tanka stories" where tanka take the place of the haiku within a haibun, please let us know when booking.  

We've had a lot of enquiries for this course (thank you!), so will run a second one if there is the demand.

FULL COST:  £125 or US$160

EARLY BIRD RATE (if booking by March 13th 2017):     

£105 or US$135

For a description of haibun, and some inspiring quotes, please see Alan's blog, here:  http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/the-passion-of-haibun-online-course.html

Senryu

Sold out!

START DATE: Thursday 6th April 2017

LEVEL: Beginners at creative writing; beginners at senryu; improvers of senryu.

GROUP SIZE: Up to 5.

We are running our first course dedicated to senryu.  How is a three-line senryu different to a three-line haiku, in content, style and language?  Submitting three draft senryu three times over two months, we'll explore these questions, but also try to find our own "voice" with our senryu.

FULL COST:  £95 or US$125

EARLY BIRD RATE (if booking by March 23rd 2017):  £83 or US$110

See Alan's piece on senryu:

http://www.haikuhut.com/Senryū-An-Application-to-be-a-human-by-Alan-Summers.pdf

Ekphrastic Tanka
now sold out!

START DATE: Tuesday 2nd May 2017

LEVEL: Beginners at tanka; improvers, and advanced tanka writers looking for new inspiration.

GROUP SIZE: Up to 5.

We think tanka, with its five lines moving between concrete images and human sensibilities is perfect as a form to explore ekphrastic writing - work inspired by artforms, especially paintings and sculpture.  Submitting two poems three times over two months, participants will be given links to artwork, but also encouraged to explore their own tastes in art from which to write.  

Ekphrastic haiku have even fewer words than tanka in which to respond to the artwork, but participants may choose to submit haiku as alternative to some of their tanka poems during their assignments.

FULL COST:  £95 or US$125

EARLY BIRD RATE (if booking by April 11th 2017):  £83 or US$110

Courses starting Summer 2017

From June onwards we will be running other courses as well including the popular haiku courses for new and experienced writers.

You can ask to be notified when we have dates - please email admin@callofthepage.org.  Thank you!  Karen and Alan.

BIOs:

Karen:

http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/selected-haiku-from-karen-hoy.html

Alan:

http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/happy-new-year-and-brand-new-honour.html

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A few selected haiku covering 2016 - Alan Summers

original photo & this image of umbrellas©Alan Summers 2016

Modern haiku by Alan Summers during 2016.

mulled wine

my mother's voices

move within me

Alan Summers

Asahi Shimbun (2016, Japan)

the forest under stars taking blankets

[Fraser Island, Queensland, Australia]

Alan Summers

Poetry & Place anthology issue 1 2016

ed. Ashley Capes and Brooke Linford (Close-Up Books, 2016)

https://www.amazon.com/Poetry-Place-Anthology-Ashley-Capes-ebook/dp/B01EXR2CJC/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

juniper the tether end of larksong 

[The Lake District, Cumbria, England, U.K.]

Alan Summers

Poetry & Place anthology issue 1 2016

ed. Ashley Capes and Brooke Linford (Close-Up Books, 2016)

https://www.amazon.com/Poetry-Place-Anthology-Ashley-Capes-ebook/dp/B01EXR2CJC/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

the mountain ash birdsong lichens

[The Lake District, Cumbria, England, U.K.]

Alan Summers

Blithe Spirit 26.1 (March 2016)

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

See one line haiku in English:
http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/all-those-red-apples-travelling.html

house clearance

room by room by room

my mother disappears

Alan Summers

Blithe Spirit 26.1 (March 2016)

Shortlisted for the Museum of Haiku Literature, Japan
Winner, The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Award for 2016

photo of tickets for Alan Summers & Karen Hoy©Alan Summers 2015

photo by Alan Summers, van Gogh Museum 2015

moonlighting crows in other colors

Alan Summers

Frogpond (39:1 Journal of the Haiku Society of America) Winter Issue 2016
Anthology Credit: 2016 HSA Member Anthology
http://www.hsa-haiku.org/frogpond/index.html

http://www.hsa-haiku.org/member-anthol.htm

Note: 

Ekphastic haiku inspired by visits to the van Gogh museum, and the crows in the many art works created around the wheat fields:

https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/search/collection?q=wheatfield

http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/auvers-sur-oise-van-gogh-wheatfields.html

http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/alans-amsterdam-visit-van-gogh-musum.html

a ripple through fields

whistling down the wind

the train on its way

Alan Summers

Blithe Spirit 26.2 (May 2016)

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

the rain in our fingers return journey

Alan Summers

Blithe Spirit 26.2 (May 2016)

the blue guitar

how many snails

dream of race

Alan Summers 

Frozen Butterfly video journal. issue 4

deep into winter 

the sun measured 

in kettle clicks 

Alan Summers 

Presence issue #55 (2016)

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

my father's war 

a story of the dark 

collecting its own

Alan Summers 

Presence issue #55 2016

Easter Sunday

a For Sale sign leans

into birdsong

Alan Summers

tinywords issue 16. 1 (2016)

http://tinywords.com/2016/03/25/21263/ 

sun off stubble a train in its landscape

Alan Summers 

otata 4 (April, 2016)
https://otatablog.wordpress.com/2016/04/29/april-2016/

secret garden

a clue to everything

lies with the crows

Alan Summers

Mainichi Shimbun (Japan) July 2016

meadow borders the river clouds

Alan Summers

Presence #56 October 2016 issn 1366-5367

broken boats

the coastline tagged

with shearwaters

Alan Summers

Presence #56 October 2016 issn 1366-5367

original photo and this image©Alan Summers

skittish clouds

the lightning tree

grows a crow

Alan Summers

Presence #56 October 2016 issn 1366-5367

pink season

a train picks up speed

into floating petals

Alan Summers

Blithe Spirit 26.4 winter issue 2016

Vol 26 No. 4 November 2016

sun-scarred desert

a rough tongued cat

scans the yard

Alan Summers

Blithe Spirit 26.4 winter issue 2016

Vol 26 No. 4 November 2016

Ullswater

conversations drift out

of reflections

Lake District, Cumbria, England, U.K.

Alan Summers

Blithe Spirit 26.4 winter issue 2016

Vol 26 No. 4 November 2016

wind-loaded snow

the shapes foxed

by morning

Alan Summers

British Haiku Society 2016 Members’ Anthology Beginning ISBN 978-1-906333-05-8

Karen Hoy, British Haiku Society 2016 Members’ Anthology Beginning ISBN 978-1-906333-05-8

a drone’s hum

the Hunter’s moon 

clears cloud

Alan Summers

otata 11 (November 2016)

blood moon 

the wind whips 

up a fox

Alan Summers

otata 11 (November 2016)

https://otatablog.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/otata-nov-2016-21.pdf

wolf rain my taste maps a cloud

Alan Summers

otata 11 (November 2016)

https://otatablog.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/otata-nov-2016-21.pdf

dark fields

tightly the vee of birds 

into pockets of forest

Alan Summers

otata 11 (November 2016)
https://otatablog.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/otata-nov-2016-21.pdf

the darkness

seeps out of leaves

resting spiders

Alan Summers

NHK World NHK Haiku Masters  (Japan, November 2016)

new home

she promises me the world

in a lilac tree

Alan Summers

Hedgerow #99
selected haiku from the Homecomings sequence: https://hedgerowpoems.wordpress.com/2016/12/09/99/

travelling by rail

a super moon kept inside

all the skyscrapers

Alan Summers

Hedgerow #99

selected haiku from the Homecomings sequence: https://hedgerowpoems.wordpress.com/2016/12/09/99/

commuter town

a long wait for the lights

to change to Christmas

Alan Summers

Hedgerow #99

selected haiku from the Homecomings sequence: https://hedgerowpoems.wordpress.com/2016/12/09/99/

Also see my interview by the Sonic Boom magazine talking about “the stiletto of poetry”

and the white paintings of haiku:

INTERVIEW WITH ALAN SUMMERS 

SONIC BOOM for writing that explodes... 

Free PDF version of Sonic Boom:
http://media.wix.com/ugd/61020d_87ad491fe433421b87e2a87033aca1ad.pdf

Free PDF version of Sonic Boom:

http://media.wix.com/ugd/61020d_87ad491fe433421b87e2a87033aca1ad.pdf

More about White Paintings and " the action of light and shadow on the white surfaces":

https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/98.308.A-C/essay/white-painting-three-panel/

ONLINE COURSES in haiku; haibun; tanka story; and standalone tanka and more:

Alan Summers provides individual feedback on haiku and related genres. 

As part of the organisation Call of the Page, Alan Summers is the lead online tutor for haiku; haibun; tanka; tanka story aka tanka prose; and other related genres. 

For further information contact Karen at:

admin@callofthepage.org

Japan Times award-winning writer Alan Summers is the new incoming President of The Haiku and Tanka Society, and a founding editor of two ground-breaking online haiku magazines.

He appears in many leading haiku and tanka anthologies and journals.

His book Writing Poetry: the haiku way is due late Summer 2017.