With Words Online Haiku & Tanka Poetry Courses September & October, and a place available on the August course

"With Words" is now known, since 2017, as Call of the Page. Do check out our popular and classic online courses in haiku and related genres at: www.callofthepage.org

 

There's one week to go before the early bird rate (US$70/£45) closes on the With Words online tanka course starting 1st September 2013, and there's plenty of time to book with the early bird rate for the online haiku course starting 1st October 2013.

Plus:

There's also a place available on the online haiku course starting 1st August (US$85/£55).

If you'd like more information, please email karen@withwords.org.uk.

Thank you!

Karen & Alan, With Words

"Thank you for your feed back. You make things seem so clear ...  So enjoyed reading the others' work too."  

Margaret Beverland (permission given)

"I have enjoyed the course tremendously and know that I will return to Alan's notes frequently as I continue to write tanka."  

Jan Harris (permission given)

Tanka are five line poems well-grounded in concrete images yet infused with lyric intensity, with an intimacy from direct expression of emotion tempered with implication. They contain ingredients of suggestion colored by shade and tone, setting off a nuance more potent than direct statement. Almost any subject, explicitly expressing your direct thoughts and feelings can be contained in this short form poetry. 

Haiku (plural and singular spelling) are the shortest of all short verses, that can elicit an emotional reaction in each reader far greater than the sum of its physical count of words.  This is often obtained by making the haiku verse a two part poem, and where the gap forms, that part of the poem’s structure creates a non-verbal extra part to the poem. 

Alan Summers
Descriptions from Decoding Tanka & Writing Poetry: the haiku way
(books-in-progress)

Alan's Biography can be read at: 
http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/haiku-holistic-approach-week-end.html

Amazement of the Ordinary: Life through a haiku lens by Alan Summers: http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/transcript-from-tedx-video-amazement-of.html

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Online Haiku Course Early Bird Rate offer extended until July 7th - haiku poetry : poetry courses in haiku

 

News update 2017:

With Words has now become Call of the Page:

www.callofthepage.org

You can either go to our contact page:

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

Or email Karen at:

admin@callofthepage.org

You can learn more about Karen and Alan at:

https://www.callofthepage.org/about-1/

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2013 workshops

We are extending the Early Bird rate for the August 1st Online Haiku Course until the 7th of July.

Haiku: 

The shortest of all short poems, with an intentional rearrangement of words from language, that elicits an emotional reaction in each reader far greater than the sum of its physical count of words.  

Alan Summers, Writing Poetry: the haiku way (Extract from the Book in Progress)

The "early bird" rate is US$70 and full price would be US$85.

Equivalent in British currency is £45 early bird rate, and £55 full price. 

To find out more about what the courses involve and how they run, please email karen@withwords.org.uk for an information sheet.

Many thanks!

Karen at With Words 



Quotes from our students for Alan's teaching:

For a biography on Alan scroll down to the end at this weblink:

http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/haiku-holistic-approach-week-end.html

  

Hi Alan - thanks so much for this....I learned a lot... I really had no idea there was so much to this art, and I'm completely fascinated. Your comments are extremely perceptive.

MK

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.

Your support over the last couple of years or so have just been such an amazing gift to me - bless you.

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.

FT

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.  

Please take good care and have an enjoyable 2013. Anne

What wonderful feedback to hear that my heart has touched someone else's. To me, that is the best reason to write. Your comments have been invaluable.  Debbie 

Thank you so much for all of the information you have provided about gendai haiku.  It has definitely sparked my interest in learning more. I also just want to say thank you for providing this course.  It is obvious that you spent a lot of time preparing the course material.  I also really appreciate your thoughtful responses to our posts.  LM

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Quest Contemporary Art Gallery Haiku Course

The Haiku Course in Poetry and Art:

• Wk 1. The Golden Ratio of Art through Haiku
• Wk 2. Hemingway's Shoes and Mono no Aware
• Wk 3. Wabi-Sabi and Haiku
• Wk 4. The Gentle Whispers of Haiku
• Wk 5. The Brightness of Balance in Haiku

The Quest Gallery Haiku Sessions:

The Haiku Course at The Quest Gallery

Japan Times award-winning writer Alan Summers has joined with Quest Gallery to develop a unique Haiku poetry course. Each session will be developed in response to the changing exhibitions at Quest Gallery, providing a unique and inspiring environment for learning.

Over the course of 5 weeks, students will experience the fundamental principles that underpin haiku, and apply these to their own poetry that they will develop and refine throughout the course. 

This is a unique opportunity to learn about Japanese poetry, and contemporary art, in the beautiful setting of one of Bath's most prestigious art galleries.

The course includes an event with special guest speakers where students can showcase their own work. There is also the opportunity to contribute haiku to the exhibition catalogue, producing a creative legacy for for both participants and for the gallery.

*Course Outline*

Wk 1. The Golden Ratio of Art through Haiku

Wk 2. Hemingway's Shoes and Mono no Aware

Wk 3. Wabi-Sabi and Haiku

Wk 4. The Gentle Whispers of Haiku

Wk 5. The Brightness of Balance in Haiku

Wednesdays 30 May - 4 July   

(5 week course with one session off for half term)

Times:  6.30 - 8pm

Special Event Date: TBC (Week of 25 June)

Tutor: Alan Summers

Cost: £75 for 5 week course

Concessions: £70

Venue:

Quest Gallery, 7 Margaret's Building, Bath BA1 2LP

http://www.questgallery.co.uk/index.php?id=6

Places are limited so book early to avoid disappointment.

For more details about booking on any of these courses, please don't hesitate to email or contact Sarah at the Quest Gallery on 01225 444142 or email sarah@questgallery.co.uk

Sarah Jenkins

Projects Coordinator

Quest Gallery

Karen Hoy reading haiku at the Dylan Thomas Centre from the first Welsh haiku anthology: Another Country: Haiku Poetry from Wales

This fine anthology is still available at Gomer Press: https://www.gomer.co.uk/another-country-haiku-poetry-from-wales.html

Friday 18th March, 7pm:
Booklaunch  

Another Country: Haiku Poetry from Wales 

the first ever Welsh national anthology of haiku poetry:
http://area17.blogspot.com/2011/02/karen-hoy-appears-in-major-new-haiku.html

Karen Hoy will be reading from her work featured in the anthology at the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea.

Another Country: Haiku Poetry from Wales

Gomer Press
ISBN: 9781848513068 

Published by Gomer Press and edited by Nigel Jenkins, Ken Jones and Lynne Rees, it features haiku, tanka, haibun and somonka – in both English and Welsh – by forty poets, from Wales's haiku pioneers.

Dylan Thomas Centre:

http://www.dylanthomas.com/dylan-thomas-centre/history-dylan-thomas-centre/

Free entry and wine, in association with Gomer Press.

Please RSVP: Lowri Walters at Gomer Press: lowriwalters@gomer.co.uk
by Wednesday 16th March latest.

Karen Hoy 

was born in Newport, and lived in Caldicot, Caerphilly and Cwmbran before moving to Hertfordshire.  

She is published by Snapshot Press Haiku Calendar; Presence magazine; and British Haiku Society Journal Blithe Spirit. 

Karen appears in My Mother Threw Knives (Second Light Publications 2006); and was Highly Commended in the BBC Wildlife Magazine's Nature Writer of the Year competition (2009). 

In 2006 Karen founded the TV development company Gilded Lily.  She has previously worked on documentaries and wildlife films for the BBC, National Geographic, the Discovery Channels and other leading broadcasters. 

 

Karen is also published in the American/British haiku anthology:

http://area17.blogspot.com/2010/11/fifty-seven-damn-good-haiku-by-bunch-of.html

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More about Karen: 

https://www.callofthepage.org/about-1/

Karen Hoy is the Course Director (designer, manager) of Call of the Page: https://www.callofthepage.org/courses/

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