Alan Summers & haiku workshop and haiku writing walks: Wolds Words 2009 Festival

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Wolds Words Festival
Lincolnshire
Friday 23rd October 2009

Booking is essential for all events.

How to book...
Call 01507 329437
Email info@woldswords.org.uk

Box Office open:
Monday to Friday
9.00am to 5.00pm


EVENT #1
Haiku & Senryu Workshop £5
10.00am to 12.00pm
Navigation Warehouse, LOUTH
http://www.louthcanal.org.uk/warehouse.html

This workshop is suitable for beginners right through to advanced writers. There will be exercises and group discussion/Q&A and a complimentary Haiku Journal notebook.

*Special Offer:
Only £7.50 if you book onto both Haiku & Senryu Workshop and Haiku Walk.

EVENT #2
Haiku Walk £5
2.00pm to 3.30pm
Begins at Navigation Warehouse, LOUTH
http://www.louthcanal.org.uk/warehouse.html
http://www.louthcanal.org.uk/geography.html

"Haiku are poems rooted in natural history and the seasons; they make us conspirators with wildlife, as nature half-writes the haiku before we've even put pen to paper. Become a co-poet with nature!" Alan Summers
*Special Offer:
Only £7.50 if you book onto both Haiku & Senryu Workshop and Haiku Walk.

Wolds Words 2009 Festival :
http://woldswords.net/festival.html
http://www.woldswords.org.uk/
Louth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louth,_Lincolnshire

A hint at the kind of scenery, full of rich haiku possibilities, we might come across!

Image by Leew (30 September 2006)
Picture: Remains of a lock on the Louth Canal at Alvingham Leew's statement: "I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide. In case this is not legally possible, I grant any entity the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law."

FREE Royal Festival Hall "With Words" haiku event

photo©Alan Summers 2009
.Alan Summers of With Words presents two FREE events
with Roberta Beary at the Royal Festival Hall

Saturday 5th September, 10.45a.m. to 1.00p.m.
Poetry Library
Royal Festival Hall
South Bank Centre, London
1st Event
Roberta Beary: a reading

Alan Summers introduces Roberta who will read haiku from 'nothing left to say' her new chapbook, edited by Michael Dylan Welch; and from her Poetry Society of America "William Carlos Williams Award" Finalist haiku collection "The Unworn Necklace" published by Snapshot Press. There will be micro-open mic opportunities as well!
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photo©Alan Summers 2009 _______________________second photo by Mike Keville

The first photo is of Roberta giving fascinating insights into her own life as well as haiku in America. The second photo is when we caught up with Mike Keville who took this amusing picture when I invited a lovely couple we didn't know to pose with Roberta Beary, Annie Bachini, and Matthew Paul as well as myself. The couple had apologised for getting in the way so I just had to include them in the picture! They also happen to be REAL cockneys born within the sound of Bow Bells!

2nd Event
Pestival: The Spirit of Issa
We're going on a haiku writing walk (ginko)!
Roberta Beary, with Alan Summers, roving Japan-UK 150 haiku & renga poet-in-residence, will visit various Pestival events, pausing amongst the insects for inspiration.
This event includes a FREE With Words Haiku Journal notebook.

Haiku Post-its with single insect-themed haiku or senyru on them were left strategically by Roberta Beary, and other haiku poets at various places for the passing public to discover.

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photo©Alan Summers 2009 _______________________second photo by Mike Keville
Towards the end of the day Mike Keville and myself caught up with Sprite who is a delightful French/English haiku writer I've only previously known on haiku internet sites.

in and out
of the lovers' quarrel
fireflies

Roberta Beary
Basho Haiku Challenge Chapbook:
Lilliput Review/Modest Proposal Chapbook series (2009)

convolvulus
a word on my tongue
and the bumblebee

Alan Summers
Blithe Spirit
(Dec 2004 British Haiku Society)
Roberta Beary:
http://www.pw.org/content/roberta_beary
http://www.robertabeary.com/
With Words:
http://www.withwords.org.uk
http://www.withwords.org.uk/results.html
Where to find the Royal Festival Hall & Poetry Library
http://www.poetrylibrary.org.uk/about/findus/
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/visiting-us

What is Pestival?!
Click onto Pestival and buzz over to all the events!

Alan Summers & Karen Hoy are now Call of the Page, 

formerly With Words. 

We run online courses and various events: 

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

www.callofthepage.org

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We'd love your important words for the amazing 'THE FOURTH PLINTH' living statue event!

Alan's BBC interview:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8176398.stmI'm one of those people on Antony Gormley's Fourth Plinth 'living statues event' at Trafalgar Square, London, on:
Monday 27th July 2009 from 2pm - 3pm.

The British Library has now archived the project and you can see Alan on Antony Gormley’s Trafalgar Square Fourth Plinth Project:
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20100223124345/http://www.oneandother.co.uk/participants/Alan_S


Alan's Fourth Plinth page:
http://www.oneandother.co.uk/participants/Alan_S

I'd would love as many of you as possible to send me your very "important words" and I will read out as many as I can during my hour on the plinth.

What's important to you that can be summed up in just one single word?
.Is it a word that's important to the world, or is it something personal like someone's name?

All of your important words are welcome whoever you are. You can give a reason why the word is important to you, but you don't have to. You can include your name, or remain anonymous.

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Check out the raku firing; haiku, haibun, small love poems residential course, watch the film to get an idea!

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Click here to see how much you get for your
WRITING POETRY the haiku way:
http://area17.blogspot.com/2008/11/new-residential-haiku-course.html


A raku firing event is included.

What a great souvenir to take away with you after the course, along with your writing! Watch the film and get an idea of the experience!

Raku YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G_gB9_-TZU&feature=related


original photo taken by Tracy Wall
July 4th 2009
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Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights Bookshop: 'How to write a Haiku Journal'

SOLD OUT!



photo by Paul Gillis
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The first in a new journal writing series:
'How to write a Haiku Journal'
with Alan Summers
Japan-UK 150 haiku poet-in-residence


Wednesday 15th July 2009
6.30-8.30 pm
upstairs at Mr B's fabulous Bibliotherapy Room

This workshop is directed at ALL writers.
Novelists, non-fiction writers, short story writers, diarists, journalists
and poets, this workshop can be useful to you, as well as great fun.

"There is absolutely no difference between revising long poetry, novels, short stories, or haiku. The word count doesn't make any difference, it's the choice of words that counts."

A haiku is more than a mere 'snapshot' poem: it's carefully composed distilled writing conveying more than the sum of its words on a page.

A haiku journal is more than a 'day/date/time, where, why, when' notebook: it's a unique shorthand method capturing a day.

This workshop is suitable for beginners right through to advanced writers. The two hours will include two exercises and group discussion/Q&A
with a FREE complimentary “Haiku Journal” notebook for everyone.

Wine is also being provided I hear from the very kind and excellent
Writing Events Bath organisers Alex and Jude!

ALAN SUMMERS blurb:
Alan Summers is a Japan Times award-winning writer with an M.A. in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University (2007-2008).

He's also 'Japan-UK 150 haiku poet-in-residence' and an experienced workshop leader.

His book 'Selected Haiku Poems 1992-1999’ will be published next year, while his pamphlet 'The Haiku Camera’ is due out later this year.

Cost £22 (concessions £20). Places limited, and filling up fast!
Please book as soon as possible.
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For enquiries please contact Writing Events Bath
writingeventsbath@gmail.com

Click onto their website for information
as well as other exciting events and competition!
Webpage: http://www.writingeventsbath.co.uk/.

Comments from the very first Writing Events Bath event:

"I look forward to attending future events particularly the session
on journal writing." Julia S, Bristol

"I am looking forward to the journal writing series in the autumn
as I kept a journal last year while I was travelling & found it very rewarding." K and P

Bibliotherapy Room images at Mr B's Emporium:

Bibliotherapy Room images©Mr B's Emporium

Mr B's bookshop: homepage
Mr B's location: map

Mr B's are the largest stockist of good haiku poetry books including the internationally award-winning Snapshot Press series of haiku poetry anthologies including "Wing Beats: British Birds in Haiku" and "The New Haiku".

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Brief CV:
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Qualifications:
M.A. in Creative Writing, Bath Spa University 2007-2008
Diploma in Creative Writing, University of Bristol 2001

Selected Awards:
The Japan Times award for haiku and renga
Ritsumeikan University of Kyoto Peace Museum Award for haiku

Selected Publications:
'The Haiku Camera' pamphlet collection Forthcoming
'Selected Haiku Poems 1994-2010’ (2010)

Poetry Editor:
'The Poetic Image - Haiku and Photography'
National Academy of Writing/Birmingham Words Pamphlet (2006)

Co–Editor
'Parade of Life: Poems inspired by Japanese Prints'
ISBN: 09539234-2-8 (2002)
"Parade of Life is very impressive." Hiroaki Sano, Japanese Embassy

Japanese newspaper publications:
Yomiuri Shimbun (14 million readers); Mainichi Shimbun;
The Japan Times; and The Mie Times.
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Bath Spa Train Station Renga Party

Images©Alan Summers from the very successful Bath Spa Train Station renga party on Platform 2 in Dashi Sushi Bar on Easter Monday April 5th 2010.

Scribing Lines

The Bath Spa Railway Station Renku
Hosted by With Words (Alan Summers & Karen Hoy), with Marshall Hryciuk & Karen Sohne, Canada, and friends.

scribing lines across the fields Easter journey		Sue Shand
hopping on one foot grandchild counts ducklings		Karen Sohne
the empty home a kettle whistles as a train rumbles past		Zoe Blackmore
while bonfire smoke drifts through a bare tree		Andrew Shimield
clouds I have even lost the moon		Mimi Thebo
as I admire Monet's Haystacks		Alan Summers
lemonade glasses framed by the half-done jigsaw		Karen Hoy
where the leaves meet blue leaves of sky		Liz Brownlee
ice cream how long out of the freezer		Karen Hoy
longing for love's lick dirty dishes pile high		Tracey Kelly
the damp spot on my expensive shirt a night's tears		Alan Summers
the world is suddenly interested in Portuguese Water Spaniels		Mimi Thebo
off Somalia the Captain's alive and three pirates dead		Yu Yan Chen
crows pierce the crystaline horizon		Tracey Kelly
inside the cat curls snug on the warmest chair		Zoe Blackmore
half moon my wife's unvarnished toenails		Alan Summers
the tree rattles bones the wind shakes		Liz Brownlee
today I smelled the earth		Mimi Thebo
abundant the elderflowers bow low		Sue Shand
light on the froth below the weir clouds float		Liz Brownlee
as I drink through the harp in my Guinness		Sue Shand
piggyback he sees his dad's view		Alan Summers
two lines summer Alan and Karen		Tracey Kelly
sunbathing on the roof the radio DJ tells us to roll over		Karen Sohne
rockets explode in showers of golden rain		Sue Shand
Orion's Belt I sneak another notch in mine		Alan Summers
this diamond day we set the date		Sue Shand
my new babe’s gaze joins my heat to her's		Liz Brownlee
the length of the valley the bullstag's trumpeting		Andrew Shimield
Jupiter's moons through someone else’s telescope		Karen Hoy
roasted chestnuts start to appear on London street corners		Alan Summers
snakes in the beard of the sun god		Karen Sohne
light on the river shimmering on the green tour boat		Marshall Hryciuk
tiny butterfly over the new lawn		Karen Sohne
in a swirl of blossom the dustmen fill their cart		Andrew Shimield
letting go of the balloon with a gentle wave		Yu Yan Chen

 http://www.viewbath.co.uk/restaurants/dashi-sushi-info-47423.html

 Alan Summers was roving renga poet-in-residence during Japan-UK 150.

Marshall Hryciuk ((President of the Haiku Society of Canada 1990 – 1997)) was sabaki for this event.

Karen Sohne (Toronto, Canada) acted as the scribe.

The event stayed at Dashi Sushi Bar for a number of hours, before moving onto a nearby park in Bath.  Early evening we moved to the famous Raven pub in Bath for refreshments and to perform the completed renga.

Karen Hoy assisted me as co-host at the event, so we could look after the needs of all the participants while guest sabaki and scribe Marshall Hryciuk and Karen Sohne from Toronto, Canada, could concentrate totally on the renga aka renku.

With Words (myself and Karen) insist that participants in a renga enjoy themselves in a relaxed atmosphere.  As a kasen renga can take six hours, there was plenty of opportunity for people to visit museums and galleries, do a little shopping, and generally come back in their own time.

all photographs©Alan Summers
Please contact me at admin@callofthepage.org for permission to use any of these photographs. 

Scribing Lines Renku

journal publishing credit: 

Notes from the Gean vol 2 issue 3 (December 2010)

https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/omeka/files/original/c0d09891429cb8cb1defd0dd94316b4f.pdf

  

Petals in the Dark, 

15 renku led and edited by Marshall Hryciuk 

(catkin press, 2015)  

https://claudiaradmore.com/2015/07/15/publishers-hat-renku/


*Also please still feel free to drop a few short poems about trains into the comments box.

www.callofthepage.org

Alan & Karen offer online courses in haiku and its related genres.  If you would like to know more drop us a line at: 
admin@callofthepage.org


More about Karen & Alan:
https://www.callofthepage.org/about-1/

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renga party at the small smaller smallest exhibition

FREE EVENT

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FREE Exhibition & renga party event
(click to go to Library page)

Click here for images of the day: http://www.flickr.com/photos/andreweason/tags/alansummers/

Renga is a relaxing way to pass the time, and a great icebreaker.
Learn a bit about haiku, and poetry in general, while having a good time!
The renga party event happens on Thursday 2nd April 2009 5 p.m. - 7.30 p.m.

When:
Thursday evening
April 2nd
5 p.m. - 7.30 p.m.

Where:
Bristol Central Library (Reference Library)
College Green
Bristol BS1 5TL
Tel. 0117 903 7202

web link: Streetmap: Bristol Central Library


Dusk at the Bristol Central Library©Firefox (http://www.flickr.com/photos/crayzy_ray/)
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The event is free to everyone.
For further information please don't hesitate to email me at: alan@withwords.org.uk

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Exhibition: Small, Smaller, Smallest
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The exhibition itself runs from:
Sunday 5th April 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Thursday 2nd–Saturday 4th 9:30 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.



Artists' Books, Multiples, Private Press Books & Livres D'Artiste evade easy classification and make life interesting for librarians. Small, Smaller, Smallest therefore presents an exhibition of books & multiples from the collections of Bristol Libraries and the University of the West of England, in order of size.


images©Andrew Eason

Timed to coincide with the Bristol Artists' Book Event at Arnolfini (4th-5th April), Small, Smaller Smallest will see books scandalously cheek by jowl with one another which really don't belong together in a library.