Alan's haiku attempts for NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month

April 5th and April 6th gendai haiku challenge

Kuleshov's Puzzle

nitrating cellulose 

and emulsion

Eisenstein manoeuvre

a Flying Pope's

neutrality collides

Flying Pope Japanese gendai haiku:

http://www.modernhaiku.org/essays/Miller-BanyaNatsuishi%27sFlyingPope.html

Last call out for the Purely Haiku Course!

Purely Haiku:

Monday Afternoon 11th - 

Friday Breakfast 15th April 
Claridge House, Surrey, South East England
(just outside London)

Enquiries and Bookings:

Phone: 01342 832150

Phone: 0845 3457281

Claridge House:

http://www.claridgehousequaker.org.uk/courses.php#April

I think that's a brilliant price. It's a bargain for what you are offering. I thought it was going to be much more.

Annie Bachini (past President of the British Haiku Society)
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There may be some of you who think it's not needed to do a whole course on haiku, after all it's only a certain format, very short, and easy to do. Far from it! ;-)

This course has been specifically designed to show you the delightful complexities and challenges of haiku writing.

It's designed to suit your own particular needs and ambitions.

You can start putting a collection together, or have poems that the best haiku magazines will accept, or just enjoy basking in an environment that is relaxing in every way whilst learning something new.

image©Claridge House


The course is designed to give benefit to both complete beginners and seasoned writers of haiku.  Even a highly published friend of mine from Washington State was considering coming over for this course! (Note: this isn't my anthology boss and co-editor but another highly accomplished writer from the same state.  See further below in my bio).

The food is exceptional, and ALL fabulous meals and luxurious tea/coffee/other hot drink and cake and biscuit breaks are done by the staff, we don't lift a finger! ;-)

Check our other links on Area 17 to get a further feel of this extraordinary course,
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http://area17.blogspot.com/2011/02/purely-haiku-unique-uk-based.html
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http://area17.blogspot.com/2011/03/still-time-to-book-up-for-purely-haiku.html
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and check out our famous fun renga that we do every time to conclude the course:

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http://area17.blogspot.com/2008/11/new-residential-haiku-course.html

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Alan Summers

Alan Summers is a Japan Times award-winning writer for haiku and renku.

He has been a Poetry School Visiting Tutor for haiku, tanka, and renga, as well as appointed as the Japan-UK-150 roving renga poet-in-residence.

Alan is a founding editor for the haijinx humor in haiku magazine; renku/renga editor for Notes from the Gean haikai literature magazine; and creator of the Bath 1000 Verse Renga, and Hull Global Renga Projects.

Alan will be reading extracts from his forthcoming haiku collection due out in the Summer; as well as from the anthology he co-edited with Washington State haiku writer Michael Dylan Welch.

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The Haiku Walk: Nature As Inspiration - Alan booked for the first ever Worcester Literary Festival!

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The first ever Worcestershire Literary Festival : the aim and mission is to raise awareness of the written word, literature and the spoken word in all forms and genres and to provide a fun and educational programme of events that are accessible for all.

The Haiku Walk:
Nature As Inspiration
 
Event details:
http://www.worcslitfest.com/the-haiku-walk-nature-as-inspiration/


Information: http://www.worcslitfest.com/contact-us/

Tickets: http://www.worcslitfest.com/shop-tickets/
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Japan Times award-winning writer Alan Summers leads a fun haiku-writing walk with a complementary Haiku Journal notebook: “Nature half-writes the haiku before we’ve even put pen to paper. Become a co-poet with nature.”

There is more than one walk, so please feel free to join in when you'd like a particular walk, or come and go too.  I'll always be based at the café when not on one of the walks.

 

Start:

Saturday, June 18, 2011 11:00 am

End:

Saturday, June 18, 2011 5:00 pm

Cost:

£5.00 (£4.00 for concessions)

Venue:

Orchard Cafe, Worcester Countryside Centre

Address:
Google Map

Wild Wood Drive, Worcester, United Kingdom, WR5 2LG

April 2nd - 4th re Alan's haiku for NaPoWriMo aka National Poetry Writing Month

image©NaPoWriMo

Three in a row, from 2nd to 4th April!

2nd April

future waterfalls
new angel DNA bursts out
from dancing pinheads

(gendai haiku)

3rd April

fingertip acupuncture I hold a sneeze at the library

(gendai haiku)

4th April 

Simon Says

If you believed they put a man

on the moon

(gendai haiku)

April 1st Alan's haiku for NaPoWriMo aka National Poetry Writing Month

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Poisson d’Avril

I gain the pirate's flag

on my blog counter

France's Poisson d'Avril (All Fools Day):

http://www.francetravelguide.com/april-fools-day-in-france-le-poisson-davril.html

Canadian Poisson d'Avril prank:

http://simplemassingpriest.blogspot.com/2010/04/poisson-davril.html

Pirate flag:

http://s01.flagcounter.com/px.html

Still time to book up for the Purely Haiku course!

I'm really looking forward to this residential course.

Monday Afternoon 11th - Friday Breakfast 15th April 
Claridge House, Surrey, South East England
(just outside London)
Phone: 01342 832150
Phone: 0845 3457281
 

The Purely Haiku Course details:

http://area17.blogspot.com/2011/02/purely-haiku-unique-uk-based.html

Claridge House:
http://www.claridgehousequaker.org.uk/courses.php#April

I think that's a brilliant price. It's a bargain for what you are offering. I thought it was going to be much more.

Annie Bachini (previous President of the British Haiku Society)

There may be some people who think, I know what haiku is, do I need a short residential course?

The answer is yes!  

photo©Rosee aka ridlydidlysventures

 


It is surprising just how much there is to learn about haiku and how the enjoyment can be tripled, quadrupled even.

The residential course starts Monday late afternoon after scrumptious teas and coffees, cakes and biscuits, in a leisurely get to know each other before we get to any workshopping at all. 

There's just the one session on Monday, and then relaxed sessions throughout Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

photo©Rosee aka ridlydidlysventures

The course is as relaxed and leisurely as you'd personally like,  or can be stepped up to your individual needs.  

The main thing is that I'm there to work hard for you, with gentle prompts and workshop exercises, with encouraging lively, engaging, inclusive group discussion and feedback.

Find out about  
kigo; kireji; gendai; shasei; juxtaposition and disjunctive methods; and how to make concrete images stand out, and even come across as lyrical in so short a poem, and help improve your other writing styles.

For those new to haiku, it will be a delightful introduction;
for those who know a little about haiku, it will be an astonishing journey to find out just how much more there is to know and enjoy.

For those who are seasoned and regularly published in haiku magazines, this is a chance to work on a body of work that can be submitted to various magazines, and become a cornerstone of your next, or first collection.

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Traditionally 
we always conclude the course with a fun renga party*, and a souvenir Haiku Journal notebook with our renga verses, and exchange of haiku from each other!

Friday is breakfast and saying goodbyes and hopefully staying in touch!

photo©Anne Simpson

Alan Summers

Alan Summers is a Japan Times award-winning writer for haiku and renku.  He has been a Poetry School Visiting Tutor for haiku, tanka, and renga, as well as appointed as the Japan-UK-150 roving renga poet-in-residence.

Alan is a founding editor for the haijinx humor in haiku magazine; renku/renga editor for Notes from the Gean haikai literature magazine; and creator of the Bath 1000 Verse Renga, and Hull Global Renga Projects.

The Purely Haiku Course details:

http://area17.blogspot.com/2011/02/purely-haiku-unique-uk-based.html

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Comments from previous renga workshops:

"we really enjoyed the renga event...it was a very intensely creative act, and I was really struck by the renga form itself, what it could be capable of...a whole new poetic energy" 

Mark, University of Winchester

"Thanks again for a wonderful poetry session."
Yu Yan, U.S. citizen currently visiting England

"I just wanted to thank you again for such a great event...I want to do some more!"
Susan, Plymouth

"Thanks so much for yesterday's renga event - it was fantastic! Really got the creative juices flowing. Let me know when the next one is, I will definitely attend!" Tracey, Bath

"Looks like I missed a fantastic event..I hope to be at the next one."
Caroline, Bristol (she was!)

"More! More!" Libby, Bristol

"It is so tempting to get involved in renku/renga with all the excitement you...generate."  

Melinda, USA

Alan's haiku attempts for NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month

image©NaPoWriMo

About NaPoWriMo http://www.napowrimo.net/about/

NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month, is an annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April.

NaPoWriMo was founded in 2003, when poet Maureen Thorson decided to take up the challenge (modeled after NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month), and challenged other poets to join her. 

Since then, the number of participants has gotten larger every year, and many writers’ organizations, local, national and even international, organize NaPoWriMo activities.

Need more information? See the Wikipedia entry for NaPoWriMo!

Pictures of Karen Hoy and Alan Summers reading haiku at the Dylan Thomas Centre as part of the Another Country: Haiku Poetry from Wales, Gomer Press: double booklaunch programme at the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, Wales, U.K.

Two Day Book Launch Events for 
Another Country: 

haiku poetry from Wales
the first ever Welsh national anthology of haiku poetry
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.

Friday 18th March 2011

Karen Hoy reads a selection of her work

A tri-part reading of headlining Welsh haiku writers MC'd by Lynne Rees

Group 1

Vivien Kelly
Sarah Coles

Humberto Gatica

Noragh Jones

Group 2

Karen Hoy

Rona Laycock

Brian White

Ken Jones

And finally, a reading from Group 3

Alex Morden (for Matt)

Stephen White

Chris Torrance

Saturday 19th March 2011

The Saturday Haiku Night 

At The Dylan Thomas Centre

with music

First Event: Readings from workshop participants from earlier in the day

Second Event: Headlining haiku writers including Karen Hoy and Alan Summers

MC'd by Nigel Jenkins, who explained that as well as playing between performers's readings, the musicians will improvise during the actual readings.   This was a tremendous success.

Order of performers:

Noragh Jones

Karen Hoy

Alan Summers

Nigel Jenkins

Ken Jones

Lynne Rees

Musicians: Peter Stacey and Maggie Nichols

Karen Hoy enthralls the audience!

Alan looking far more serious than he should. ;-)

Weblink to further book details:

http://area17.blogspot.com/2011/03/karen-hoy-and-alan-summers-reading-at.html

Gomer Press: 
http://www.gomer.co.uk/index.php/another-country-haiku-poetry-from-wales.html

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Karen Hoy and Alan Summers reading at Haiku & Music: Dylan Thomas Centre

Scroll down for further information 

on both events.

1. Booklaunch 

Friday 18th March, 7pm:

Another Country: Haiku Poetry from Wales 

the first ever Welsh national anthology of haiku poetry
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.

2. Music/haiku:

Peter Stacey and Friends including Karen Hoy & Alan Summers

7.30pm Saturday 19 March 2011

Admission: Full price £5; Concessions £3.50; PTL £2

Both events are at:

Dylan Thomas Centre

Somerset Place, Swansea, SA1 1RR

tel: 01792 463980

fax: 01792 463993

email: dylanthomas.centre@swansea.gov.uk

website: http://www.dylanthomas.com

The focal point for fans worldwide, the Centre's home to a permanent Dylan Thomas exhibition, and year-round programme of arts events, including Dylan Thomas Festival. Explore the books and gifts in the bookshop-cafe. Talks and tours available on request. Open from 10am - 4:30pm every day including Bank Holidays. Free admission. VAQAS accredited.

1st EVENT:

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.
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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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2nd EVENT

Music/haiku:

Peter Stacey and Friends including Karen Hoy & Alan Summers

7.30pm Saturday 19 March 2011

Admission: Full price £5; Concessions £3.50; PTL £2

Tel: 01792 463980

Email: dylanthomas.lit@swansea.gov.uk

Website: http://www.swansea.gov.uk/dtc

A celebration, in words and music, of haiku poetry, featuring some of Wales’s leading haiku poets in creative collaboration with musicians, including the renowned flautist and saxophonist Peter Stacey.

Alan Summers

Japan Times award-winning writer of haiku and renku, with parents from Wales (Monmouthshire and Swansea) proudly serving Wales during WWII in the WAAF and RAF.

Alan was the founder of With Words, which evolved into Call of the Page where he is the co-founder along with Karen Hoy. Both incarnations are UK-based providers of quality literature, education and literacy projects, often based around the Japanese genres: www.callofthepage.org

Alan and Karen regularly run online courses for haiku and its related genres. For further information please don't hesitate to drop us a line by emailing: admin@callofthepage.org

Alan and Karen ran this residential haiku course in Apriln2011, and watch this space for more live events coming up:

http://area17.blogspot.com/2011/02/purely-haiku-unique-uk-based.html 

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The 2011 Kids Count for Earthday Haiku Contest now open!

Children and young people are getting us to look after our planet through the message of haiku!

For further information: http://kidsearthdayhaiku.blogspot.com/

The Haiku Society of America is sponsoring One Year Memberships as prizes for The 2011 Kids Count for Earthday Haiku Contest created by Planetpals (Worldwide); With Words (U.K.); and Sketchbook Haiku Journal (USA).

The contest is designed to combine the love of Earth with the sheer simple
fun of writing Japanese haiku in English!

  

 
We call it the The 2011 "Kids Count for Earthday" Haiku Contest because we want you to help all of us to learn how to keep the planet clean and healthy!

Kids and young people will only need to count approximately 5-7-5  or use some combination of short, long, short syllables, to create their Earthday haiku.




The Contest has four haiku poets all experienced in judging British and American haiku, and international haiku from children and young people worldwide.

So who can enter?

Children and young people aged from 7 years old right up to 20 years from
the USA, UK and English Speaking Countries (including Alaska, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii; as well as Japan; Africa; India; Pakistan; Bangladesh; China; Middle East; and Australia; New Zealand and all other countries). If English is not your first language please do add an English language version of your haiku entry as well.

The Haiku Society of America is represented by an'ya; Alan Summers of With Words (UK); Judith Gorgone of Planetpals (Worldwide); Karina Klesko of Sketchbook, Journal for Eastern and Western Short Forms.

The contest is now open
Starting Date: February 22nd, 2011
Ending Date: Earthday-April 22nd, 2011
 

The competition is open to individual students 7 - 20 years old;  
and the theme is"What Earthday means to you".

There will be winners for each category and entries based age appropriately.

All entries must be postmarked no later than April 22, 2011 
and include the students name and address or school name and address. 
(*NOTE: winners private information will not be distributed to any 3rd parties - all
information is for internal purposes only )

Entries must be e-mailed to:
kidscount4earthday@gmail.com

To be notified of results then email kidscount4earthday@gmail.comagain
saying "Let me know!" in the subject line.

Announcements of the Winners will be by May 22, 2011.

Winning Entries will be published in Sketchbook, a Journal for Eastern and
Western Short Forms.

For further information go to the competition website:
http://kidsearthdayhaiku.blogspot.com/

Enjoy the challenge of writing modern haiku, and best of luck!
Alan, Judith, Karina, and an'ya (judges)

For further information: http://kidsearthdayhaiku.blogspot.com/
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Purely Haiku - a unique U.K. based residential course

PURELY HAIKU, LED BY ALAN SUMMERS AND KAREN HOY

Monday 11th - Friday 15th April 
Claridge House, Surrey, South East England
(just outside London)
 

I think that's a brilliant price. It's a bargain for what you are offering. I thought it was going to be much more.

Annie Bachini (previous President of the British Haiku Society)

Claridge House April 2011 Course details:
http://www.claridgehousequaker.org.uk/courses.php#April

The retreat is fantastic, the venue is peaceful, and everyone and
everything is catered for: no-one gets hungry and thirsty, and it's all
done for us too! The food is amazing, and I can vouch for that as my
background is in the family restaurant business.

We've had first timers to haiku as well as seasoned haiku writers
attending, and everyone benefits from the atmosphere.

The vegetarian and vegan food, covering all dietary needs, non-gluten,
non-wheat, non-dairy etc... is fantastic.

Plenty of organised tea, coffee, non-caffeine hot drinks, cold drinks,
homemade cakes, lots of biscuits including non-gluten and non-wheat etc...

The courses we lead, this is a new one, are excellent value, and it isn't
just for the price of the course, but superb food, accomodation, being
catered for throughout the day etc...

It really is a good course for anyone serious about haiku, or anyone
wanting an intensive course in haiku.

A week is perfect for getting a good grounding, rather than workshops
spread over a year.

It's also great fun, as it has to be, as we have four workshops per day,
but plenty of tea and coffee and non-caffeine hot and cold drinks too!

No matter how large the group every individual gets special treatment.
There are lots of opportunities for private one-to-one sessions, not just
once, but throughout the day, and the week.  It means I get to bed
exhausted but very happy. ;-)

We end the course Thursday night with a fun renga session.  There's
nothing intense in our intensive course.

Claridge House April 2011 Course details:
http://www.claridgehousequaker.org.uk/courses.php#April

 
TUTORS:

Alan Summers

Alan is founder of With Words, a UK-based provider of quality literature,
education and literacy projects, often based around the Japanese genres.

He is also the judge of The With Words International Online Haiku Competition.


Alan is also a founding editor for haijinx online magazine for humour
within haiku.

Along with being an editor for a number of anthologies, and two
haiku/renku online magazines, he is also co-editor of Fifty-Seven Damn
Good Haiku by a Bunch of Our Friends ISBN 978-1-878798-31-2 (2010) with highly-respected American publisher and poet Michael Dylan Welch that features the work of British, American, African and Japanese writers of haiku:
http://area17.blogspot.com/2010/11/fifty-seven-damn-good-haiku-by-bunch-of.html

Alan is an experienced workshop leader, and a Japan Times award-winning
writer, with an MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University.

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Alan is able to work with people who have no experience of poetry to
encourage them to try it.  He watches and listens with patience and
respect and offers guidance that is flexible enough to empower the
workshop participants but firm enough to support them.

School of Applied Community and Health Studies Centre 
for Personal and Professional Development



Karen Hoy

Karen is a published haiku writer with Snapshot Press (both journal and
Haiku Calendar); Haiku Presence magazine; and British Haiku Society
journal Blithe Spirit (and BHS anthologies).

Her non-haiku work includes My Mother Threw Knives (Second Light
Publications 2006); and she was Highly Commended in the BBC Wildlife
Magazine’s Nature Writer of the Year Awards, 2009.

2010 and 2011 found Karen featured in the American/British anthology
Fifty-Seven Damn Good Haiku by a Bunch of Our Friends edited by Michael Dylan Welch and Alan Summers (Press Here 2010); and Another Country, Haiku Poetry from Wales, edited by Nigel Jenkins, Ken Jones, and Lynne Rees (Gomer Press 2011) showcasing Wales's haiku pioneers:
http://area17.blogspot.com/2011/02/karen-hoy-appears-in-major-new-haiku.html

IMPORTANT UPDATES: Haiku North America in Seattle, August 3-7, 2011

Haiku North America 2011 – Seattle, Washington

Save the date! Haiku North America 2011 will be held August 3 to 7, 2011, in Seattle, Washington.

Members of the Haiku Northwest group have generously offered to host the 2011 conference and they have many exciting plans already in the works, including a harbor cruise.

The conference itself will be held at the Seattle Center, at the foot of the Space Needle, providing easy access to haiku writing and walking opportunities such as Pike Place Market (via the monorail), the Olympic Sculpture Park, the Experience Music Project rock-and-roll museum and Science Fiction Museum, and countless other attractions—including fleet week and the Seafair festival, with the Blue Angels performing overhead.

The conference theme will be “Fifty Years of Haiku,” celebrating the past, present, and future of haiku in North America. 

The deadline for proposals has been extended to February 28, 2011 (http://www.haikunorthamerica.com/pages/2011.html), but sooner is better. Proposals do not have to fit the theme. 

If you’ve already submitted a proposal, please confirm with Michael Dylan Welch at WelchM@aol.com that you can come to Seattle on the new dates. 

Speakers already include Cor van den Heuvel, Richard Gilbert, David Lanoue, Carlos Colón, Fay Aoyagi, Jim Kacian, Emiko Miyashita, George Swede, and many others.

Detailed information on registration, lodging, and the conference schedule will be available in March. 

For further information as it becomes available, please visit www.haikunorthamerica.com. And check out the new HNA blog at http://haikunorthamerica.wordpress.com/.

See you in Seattle!

Garry Gay, Paul Miller, Michael Dylan Welch
Haiku North America

Karen Hoy appears in a major new haiku anthology alongside T.S. Eliot Award, and Wales Book of the Year, poet Philip Gross

Karen Hoy appears in the major new haiku anthology:
Another Country, Haiku Poetry from Wales.

Gomer Press ISBN: 9781848513068 

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.

Gomer Press: http://www.gomer.co.uk

Contact details: http://www.gomer.co.uk/gomer/en/gomer.About/contact

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. 

The poets involved are:

Tony Curtis, Philip Gross, Peter Finch, Karen Hoy, Caroline Gourlay, Arwyn Evans, Matt Morden, Rona Laycock, Hilary Tann, Jon Summers, Jane Whittle, Humberto Gattica, Chris Torrance, Stephen Toft, Tony Conran, Rick Allden, Pamela Brown, Marion Carlisle, Sarah Coles, Gillian Drake, Robert Drake,  Marc Evans,  Eirwyn George, Joan E James, Noragh Jones, Alan Kellerman, Vivien Kelly,  Leslie McMurtry, Jayne Rafferty, John Rowlands,  Vicky Thomas,  Mary B Valencia, Brian White, Stephen White, Jan Wigley, Eloise Williams, Rhys Owain Williamns, and the three editors.

More about Karen Hoy:

http://area17.blogspot.com/2011/01/karen-hoy-reading-haiku-at-dylan-thomas.html

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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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Mini-memoirs course led by Karen Hoy, Claridge House, Surrey U.K.

Want to write memoirs of your earlier life?   Don't know where to start? 

There are still places available on our Mini-Memoir residential course, run by workshop leader Karen Hoy and assisted by Alan Summers, at the wonderful Claridge House, running from Monday 17th January (a week this Monday) to the Friday morning.  
 

We'll use themes, exercises and discussion to help you unlock and write those short pieces of writing that are complete in themselves.   

You can then extend them into fuller memoirs in your own time.

We first used the Mini-Memoir exercises in a workshop setting to generate ideas for haibun, so haibunistas will be at home here.

n.b. haibun is economic prose with one or more haiku.

 
 

Themes will be on many subjects, in a friendly supportive atmosphere, where humour will always be a vital ingredient.

Claridge House January 2011 Course:

http://www.claridgehousequaker.org.uk/courses.php#January

Karen Hoy is a published writer (and poet) and has led a number of memoir based workshops for With Words which promotes the love of words.   

Karen has a Diploma in Creative Writing from the University of Bristol.

Alan Summers 

is the founder of With Words, and has been involved with the BBC Poetry Season.  

He is an experienced workshop leader, and a Japan Times award-winning writer, with an MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University.