Alan Summers
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Alan Summers is Japan-UK 150 haiku (and renga) poet-in-residence.
Please keep checking the Area 17 blog
for coming updates on haiku and renga events!
http://area17.blogspot.com
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FORTHCOMING:
Two opportunities to meet Alan Summers.
Wolds Words Festival
Lincolnshire
Friday 23rd October 2009
EVENT #1
Haiku & Senryu Workshop £5
10.00am to 12.00pm
Navigation Warehouse, LOUTH
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
"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
PESTIVAL!
ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL
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!
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.
THAMES FESTIVAL 2008
Come visit us at the Royal Festival Hall, Saturday 13th September for FREE haiku workshops or just for a chat!
Japan Times Award-winning Poet
WEBSITE: www.withwords.org.uk
BLOG: http://area17.blogspot.com
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HAIKU EVENTS 2008
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The Poetry School (U.K.) courses
for SPRING 2008
Haiku & Senryu
Activity: Writing Feedback Exercises
Study Mode: One Day Workshop
Venue:
Slug and Lettuce - Bath
5/6 Edgar Buildings, George Street
Bath BA1 2EE
Date: 23 February, 2008
Day: Saturday
Time: 10.30am-4.30pm
Participants will learn the ‘real rules’ of these ultra-
compact forms and consider their relevance to modern
British poetry.
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Korean, Japanese & Chinese Forms
Activity: Writing Feedback Exercises
Study Mode: One Day Workshop
Venue:
Slug and Lettuce - Bath
5/6 Edgar Buildings, George Street
Bath BA1 2EE
Date: 29 March, 2008
Day: Saturday
Time: 10.30am-4.30pm
This workshop introduces the forms of Sijo, Sedoka,
Tanka, and Jueju.
Participants will learn how these forms are still active
today.
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Renga
Activity: Writing Feedback Exercises
Study Mode: One Day Workshop
Venue:
Slug and Lettuce - Bath
5/6 Edgar Buildings, George Street
Bath BA1 2EE
Date: 26 April, 2008
Day: Saturday
Time: 10.30am-4.30pm
This workshop introduces the shared writing linked verse
form of renga (both haiku and senryu originate from
renga). Through group activity we will aim to complete a
twenty verse nijuin renga by the end of the day.
For the renga workshop, if you have never written renga,
then there is no need to bring work, just bring yourself!
The purpose of these three workshops is to examine and
practice, through group discussion and participation, both
the traditions and contemporary possibilities of various
classic Asian poetry forms. Participants will aim to have
finished poems at the end of each session and are invited
to bring work-in-progress as well (16 copies of each
poem).
Each workshop fee: £35, £25 concs
The School office in London is staffed part-time, so if you
don't catch them in, please leave a message and they will
get back to you as soon as they possibly can:
Phone: 0845 223 5274
Email: programme@poetryschool.com
Please check out my Area 17 for useful weblinks to the
Poetry School and Slug & Lettuce venue:
http://area17.blogspot.com
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Previous Years:
National Poetry Day 2007:
"Rocket Dreams" with Piers Bizony
www.at-bristol.org.uk/About/events.htm#rocketdreams
Space haiku competition:
www.at-bristol.org.uk/Education/Spacehaiku.htm
October 2007
M.A. in Creative Writing, Bath Spa University
July - September 2007
Working on a children's novel
Working on a poetry commission
June 2007
The AppleHouse Workshops
Kent
A LONG POET’S GUIDE TO HAIKU
April 2007
"Uni-Verse" haiku reading and talk
Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institution
March 2007
Destination: World
OneZone, Frenchay Campus
University of West of England
February 2007
THE POETRY SCHOOL haiku & senryu workshop
FEBRUARY 2007
January 2007
BASHO: A TALK ON THE FAMOUS JAPANESE HAIKU POET
Bristol Central Library
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2006
Oppo} Haiku Poet-in-Residence at Bristol's only haiku café
as mentioned in Lonely Planet's Guide to Great Britain (see
further below results of two Bristol With Words haiku
competitions at Oppo}).
The residency involved 2 haiku competitions, haiku art
displays, lunchtime workshops & open mic sessions.
NOVEMBER - DECEMBER 2006
Ambidextrous/Soft C/Alan Summers/With Words haiku
projects
Newton Park campus, Bath Spa University, U.K.
NOVEMBER - DECEMBER 2006
ALE & PORTER ARTS
THE ART SUPERMARKET
www.aleandporter.org
DECEMBER 2006
Guest poet Bath Can Openers
The Raven
www.theravenofbath.co.uk
NATIONAL POETRY DAY
Theme "IDENTITY"
THURSDAY OCTOBER 5TH 2006
British Sign Language HAIKU & POETRY EVENT
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL
Bradford on Avon Arts Festival
DEMYSTIFYING HAIKU:
HOW TO WRITE AND PUBLISH HAIKU
BRISTOL POETRY FESTIVAL 2006
Ripped Words with Lawrence Pettener
BRISTOL OLD VIC
Mr Tallstory's Alternative Fairytales-in-Verse
September 2006
BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE HAIKU FESTIVAL
University of Bristol July 29/30th
haiku walk; haiku workshop & talk; Judges' Panel;
presenting The Basho Award.
This was the first BSL haiku festival ever in the U.K.
June 2006
Café Retro, City of Bath
Poetry night fundraising event for Hepatitis C Trust
BRISTOL LUNCHTIME POETRY READINGS
Bristol Central Library
April 2006
'Poetry Unplugged'
The Poetry Café, Betterton Street,
London's premier open mike poetry event.
April 2006
Bath Can Opener's Evening Poetry Readings
March 2006
POETRY AT BOOTY
Community Art hub & shop
Bristol
March 2006
Headlining Poet:
BRISTOL LUNCHTIME POETRY READINGS
2nd March - Bristol Central Library
NATIONAL STORYTELLING WEEK
Bristol Central Library Sunday 5/2/06
February 2006
EXETER HAIKU ALL DAY WORKSHOPS
with Paul Conneally
January - July 2006
ACOUSTIC NIGHT SPOKEN WORD & MUSIC
HALO CAFÉ, Bristol
January 2006
LANSDOWN PUB Poetry Event - Bristol
THE POETRY HOUSE - Tuesday January 17th 2006
Headlining with:
*NICHOLAS JOHNSON - Arnolfini visiting writer
*SUSAN MacKERVOY - Poet, translator, printmaker
*VISUAL ART by David Alderslade
www.alderslade.com/davidalderslade
*EXHIBITION OF ETRUSCAN BOOKS
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PUBLISHING NEWS:
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Forthcoming Summer 2008:
"Wing Beats: British Birds in Haiku"
Snapshot Press
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Already in print:
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"Stepping Stones: a way into haiku"
ISBN 978-0-9522397-9-6
UK Price: £12 + £1·50 p&p
Europe: 19 euros + 4 euros p&p (airmail)
USA: US$26 + US$8 p&p (airmail)
"THE POETIC IMAGE: HAIKU & PHOTOGRAPHY"
FREE download ePamphlet:
www.birminghamwords.co.uk
Just click on Publications at the top of the webpage and
you get taken to the pamphlet webpage.
FRANCE:
Anthologie de haïkus de l'Union Européenne (multi-
lingual)
('HAIKU ANTHOLOGY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION')
pub. Association francaise de haiku, France
Japanese trans: Meguro Haiku International Circle, Japan
ISBN: 2-9522178-0-7
EAN: 9782952217804
Many thanks to the French-Japanese Sasakawa Foundation
U.S.A.:
"TABOO HAIKU"
An international anthology of haiku about themes that
often go unexplored in mainstream haiku publications.
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THE SEASHELL GAME 2006
haikai game & competition
- Alan Summers is on the Judges' Panel -
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WITH WORDS @ OPPO} HAIKU CONTEST 2006
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2005 CHAMPAGNE HAIKU COMPETITION RESULTS
www.withwords.co.uk/comp.html
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2005 InterAction POETRY COMPETITION
Results to be published over 2 issues.
http://www.afme.org.uk/interaction.asp
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November - Christmas Eve 2005
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haiku inhabitance @ THE ART SUPERMARKET
http://www.aleandporter.org/a-mart.html
(Don't forget Charlie Murphy's 'KISS IN' video & events at
the world-famous Arnolfini (Bristol) in February 2006, as
part of INBETWEENTIME, because you might be in it!)
Monday 28 November 2005
Poetry House's ALOUD, Bradford-on-Avon
Alan reading haibun at the open mic spot
Headliners: Carrie Etter, Catherine Simmonds,
& Darius Victor Snieckus
Saturday 26 November 2005
HAIKU KARAOKE @ the Art Supermarket.
Karen and myself would like to thank everyone who came
along on Saturday afternoon.
Oct 2005
OFF THE SHELF FESTIVAL, SHEFFIELD
Many many thanks to the organisers, Maria, Lesley & Su;
and the other Sue!
Many thanks to all the brilliant library staff; children;
teachers; & parents who were involved with "Mr Tallstory &
The Shoes of Glory".
And many thanks to everyone who attended the
Andersen for Adults event: THE LIFE & STORIES OF HANS
CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN, including a contingent or two
from Manchester!
Many many thanks to Maria, and everyone who came
along to the How to Haiku walk at Sheffield's Botanical
Gardens.
"I really enjoyed meeting you and taking part in the
Haiku Workshop"
Maria de Souza - Off The Shelf Community Arts Officer
Thanks Su for getting me onto that last train!
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ARTS ALIVE FESTIVAL - October 2005
Many many thanks to Charlotte, Hannah & everyone else
who made Mr Tallstory & The Shoes of Glory come alive
in the workshops in the schools & libraries, and for
making the fairytale competition event such a great time
too!
"...we really enjoyed your visit ... their parents were
delighted. Thanks again for a delightful day."
Charlotte Gardiner
Arts Development Officer
Arts Alive Festival
"Thank you ever so much for the Hans Christian
Andersen workshops...the children really enjoyed them."
Hannah Leonard
ARTS ALIVE FESTIVAL
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HAIKU WORKSHOPS :
* How to haiku/senryu (& get published): An Introduction
* How to haibun
* Haiku: Nature and the Seasons
HAIKU WRITING WALKS (ginko)
with the Haiku Fieldbook
TALKS:
* Beyond Fashionable - what is haiku?
(An Introduction to haiku with Classic and Contemporary
Japanese and Western examples)
* Hans Christian Andersen for Adults
WORKSHOPS FOR CHILDREN
*Mr Tallstory & The Shoes of Glory
*haiku & the seasons
*the haiku cards
READINGS:
*haiku/senryu; haibun; fables & fairytales
THE HAIKU CARDS:
*Fun & challenging for children
*Ice breakers at corporate & educational conferences,
*Team-building
*Ask about our SPEED RENGA too!
POETRY JUDGE (various poetry competitions)
ALAN SUMMERS is published in over fourteen countries.
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ENQUIRIES:
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EMAIL :
haiku at dircon.co.uk
(replace at with @)
MOBILE TEL. : 079 79 656 775
OR WRITE TO :
Alan Summers
P.O.Box 1974
Bristol BS99 3BB
PUBLIC LIABILITY INSURANCE
CRB ENHANCED DISCLOSURE CERTIFICATE
registered with NAWE
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Recipient of :
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The Japan Times award for haiku, 2002
Diploma of Creative Writing
University of Bristol 2001
Ritsumeikan University of Kyoto Peace Museum
Award for haiku, 1998
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QUOTES:
"...brings...a sense of reflection to the children
amongst the chaos"
PRIMARY SCHOOL
"... haiku workshop was greatly received ... very very
impressed by the standard"
PRIMARY SCHOOL
"Thank you very much for your support and participation
to our festival. It was a brilliant idea to organise a haiku
walk. Everyone enjoyed it immensely."
MICHIKO KANEKO
BSL Haiku Festival Organiser
Centre for Deaf Studies
University of Bristol
"You have a very gentle and encouraging way with the
students -- and you have been generous with your time in
giving them deep and positive comments!"
Isabelle Prondzynski,
CMSIreland Associate Mission Partner
"I'm stunned...I spent my entire school life being
branded...a... total thicko...I don't think I've been
commended for anything before-so thank you. It's a new
strange and positive experience, though I caught myself
thinking that can't be right..."
TIANE: A RUNNER UP IN THE 1ST WITH WORDS HAIKU
COMPETITION AT OPPO} CAFÉ, BRISTOL, JULY 2006
"...had a quick look at your site, very impressive"
Paul Blackburn, Write Out Loud www.writeoutloud.net
"...we really enjoyed your visit ... their parents were
delighted. Thanks again for a delightful day. Best
wishes Charlotte"
CHARLOTTE GARDINER
ARTS ALIVE FESTIVAL Arts Development Officer
"I really enjoyed meeting you and taking part in the
Haiku Workshop...feedback from other participants has
also been very complimentary - they really enjoyed it."
MARIA DE SOUZA
OFF THE SHELF FESTIVAL OF WRITING & READING
Community Arts Officer
"Quite upset at having had to miss it...we hope that
we will be able to repeat it again...so maybe I'll get to
make it then!"
Dr Lorraine Coghill
SCIENCE LEARNING & PROGRAMMES OFFICER
AT-BRISTOL
Meet the Expert: Wild haiku Event May 2005
"Alan Summers...has now taken it upon himself to keep
the magic alive."
THE GUIDE: Surrey & Sussex Newspapers
"...you are one of the poets I have been most
interested in. When I began composing haiku, I studied
about English language haiku through your descriptive
literature in the website. I love your haiku style."
KEIKO IZAWA,
musician & haiku poet, Yokohama, Japan
"...poignant, funny, wistful, gritty ..."
CAROLE MacRURY
Canadian poet and photographer; regular featured reader
for Vancouver Co-op Radio, has mentored haiku
beginners and has been published in North America,
Japan, Romania and Croatia.
"Just a few minutes of looking at your website has told me
more about how to write a haiku than I ever knew before.
Great stuff."
CATHERINE EDMUNDS - novelist and poet.
"...enjoyed the haiku workshop at the Botanical Gardens.
Best wishes, Joan Hoare"
JOAN HOARE, Sheffield, U.K.
"astonishingly moving haiku"
YOMIURI SHIMBUN January 2005
"widely known haiku poet...as dry as vintage
champagne"
YOMIURI SHIMBUN September 2002
(YOMIURI SHIMBUN
Japan's largest national newspaper
with over 14 million readers.)
"beautiful, atmospheric description
of landscape and birdlife"
Juliet Wilson
POETRY ASSOCIATION SCOTLAND
"...humanises the city."
Takashi Nonin
MAINICHI DAILY NEWS
"Your haiku livened things up"
Bill Higginson,
author of THE HAIKU HANDBOOK
"I went to your ambidextrous haiku workshop and found it
very inspiring."
Abby, Bath Spa University, third year student
co-editor of STUDENT LiTeRaRy MaGaZiNe
" Stunning!"
" ... the lime/jazz haiku ... gave me the fizz of summer
... I could smell it, I swear! "
ANNE BROOKE, Writer
"Clear, minimalist, calm"
JIM McNEIL
storyteller, poet and singer-songwriter
"Your work was fascinating, and was a wonderful part of
the evening."
Liz Watts, Art House Gallery reading, February 2007
"Loved the haiku on your website.
in the river reflection
he watches himself
watch the sunset
I just wanted to tell you."
CATHY KEAL - Writer
"ill all day" is brilliant - simple but we've
all been there...
HORTENSIA ANDERSON
is a lower east side, new york city poet.
"startling and forceful"
Duncan Richardson
PRESIDENT, FELLOWSHIP OF AUSTRALIAN WRITERS,
Queensland
"ultra-crisp poetry"
Latimer's Diary
BRISTOL EVENING POST
"retelling the Japanese genre"
DeCode
Bristol & Bath music & art magazine
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A million people, or more, write haiku outside Japan.
night rainforest
somewhere a treefrog
to a pocket pen
unpublished & hopping
late september rain
cutting through the lane
and the mist
Paper Wasp 1999
Australian haiku magazine
haiku©Alan Summers
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SELECTED
Read, performed, workshopped at:
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OFF THE SHELF FESTIVAL 2005
*How to Haiku - workshop & walk (ginko)
As part of the Hans Christian Andersen Bicentennial:
*Mr Tallstory & the Shoes of Glory workshops
*Life & Stories of Hans Christian Andersen
ARTS ALIVE FESTIVAL 2005
as part of the Hans Christian Andersen Bicentennial
Mr Tallstory & the Shoes of Glory workshops in schools
& libraries & the fairytale competition event.
POET-IN-RESIDENCE, Bristol Festival of Nature 2004
The UK's biggest celebration of the natural world
World Haiku Festival, Tokyo, Japan
(filmed by NHK TV Japan)
United World Youth Council Parliament, Oxford
Brisbane Wordfest, Queensland, Australia
Katikati Haiku Pathway, New Zealand
(large haiku park in North Island, NZ)
Japan2001 events, London & Bristol
Kingston Arts Festival
Leather Market, London
National Storytelling Week 2005
MEET THE EXPERT: WILD HAIKU
www.at-bristol.co.uk/about/events.htm#experthaiku
Oxfam/Amnesty Event - National Poetry Day
Falmouth Festival of Literature and Arts
Birmingham International Fringe Festival
The Bigger Picture/Wildscreen 2002
BBC Bristol Radio and TV
Bristol Old Vic Theatre
Summer Academy, University of Bristol
Bristol Poetry Festival
University of Bath
LadyfestBristol
The Art Supermarket Bradford-on-Avon
The Poetry House
BATH FRINGE FESTIVAL - various years including:
THE HUMAN ZOO with Lee Coombes
Various schools, including
Special Needs schools
Bradford-on-Avon Street Party for MENCAP
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POETRY JUDGING:
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poetry & haiku competitions
2005 InterAction POETRY COMPETITION
National Poetry Day Wildwalk at-Bristol
Workshops Competition
http://www.at-bristol.org.uk/wildwalk/Kukai.htm
Poetry Society
http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/npd/event02.htm
webWORKS Kukai 2004
Charnwood Arts, community arts and media
organisation. Registered arts and educational charity
(No. 505977)
The John Crook Award 2002
The Seashell Game 2003 & 2005
Vance Palmer Literary Award - Queensland, Australia
The Biennial Sasakawa Prize
for Original Contributions in the Field of Haikai
The WithWords Champagne Haiku Competition
Modern Fairytale Competition
Mr Tallstory's Alternative Fairytale-in-Verse Competition
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Exhibitions:
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THE ART SUPERMARKET
Bradford on Avon
www.aleandporter.org/a-mart.html
November - Christmas Eve 2005
ROUND THE HOUSES ART TRAIL:
www.roundthehouses.org
Saturday/Sunday 24/25th September 2005
Front Room - Totterdown Art Trail,
26-28 November 2004
http://www.frontroom.org.uk/summers.htm
Round the Houses Art Trail ( 2-3 October 2004)
'hanging haiku exhibition'
The Artist and Friends - Create Centre
August 2004
Company of Friends - Centrespace
April 2004
The Haiku Experience
Front Room - Totterdown Art Trail, Nov. 2003
East meets West
The Art Gym - Hengrove Community Arts College
linocuts with Trevor Haddrell
November 2003
Floating World Japanese Festival
with Trevor Haddrell
Bristol Floating Harbour September 2003
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Member of the following:
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*The Royal Society of Literature
*The West Country Writers' Association
*The Poetry Society
*National Association of Writers in Education
*Life Member, Fellowship of Australian Writers,
Queensland
*The British Haiku Society (former General Secretary)
*Foundation Member of the Australian Haiku Society
*Haiku International Association, Japan
*Haiku Society of America
*The Woodland Trust
*Buglife - The Invertebrate Conservation Trust
*Plantlife International
*Avon Wildlife Trust
*Friend of University of Bristol Botanical Gardens
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Publications:
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Around 70 poetry and haiku book publications
Newspapers include:
Yomiuri Shimbun; Mainichi Shimbun; Mie Times;
The Brisbane Review; and The Queensland Times
etc...and various haiku and poetry magazines
Southampton Institute Alternative Library site.
Featured haiku for the month of August 2004.
Cornell University's Mann Library "Daily Haiku" poet
(Fall 2001, U.S.A.)
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A few of those books:
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PARADE OF LIFE:
POEMS INSPIRED BY JAPANESE PRINTS
Selected by Paul Conneally & Alan Summers
ISBN: 09539234-2-8
Over 300 schoolchildren and other individuals wrote
more than 400 poems inspired by art at Bristol Museum &
Art Gallery's 'Parade of Life' Japanese Print Exhibition as
part of Bristol Poetry Festival and Japan2001 Festival.
Booklaunches: Bristol, U.K. & Akita, JAPAN
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"'Parade of Life' is very impressive."
HIROAKI SANO Japanese Embassy
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BOOK ORDERS:
We still have a few left, at £5 postfree to schools and
£7.50 to individuals.
You can contact With Words at:
079 79 656 775
or email:
haiku@dircon.co.uk
or
write to:
With Words
1st Floor
29 Market Street
Bradford on Avon BA15 1LL
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THE IRON BOOK OF BRITISH HAIKU
Iron Press ISBN: 0906228670
First published 1998, Third print 2000
http://www.ironpress.co.uk/hbritish.htm
Simply, a classic!
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THE NEW HAIKU
Snapshot Press, 2002 ISBN 1-903453-03-7
www.snapshotpress.co.uk/orderonline_uk.htm
A absolute must for anyone serious about quality
contemporary British haiku, and what it's all about.
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HAIKU WORLD:
AN INTERNATIONAL POETRY ALMANAC
Kodansha International, Japan,
ed. William Higginson
ISBN 4770020902
An instant classic and a must for anyone serious
about haiku whether as a teacher, writer or reader.
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‘HAIGA - ILLUSTRATED HAIKU POEMS’ ed. Yukki Yaura
Suekichi Books ISBN 0953869210
(Yukki’s calligraphy work can also be seen in
Stephen Spielberg’s film Empire of the Sun,
Peter Greenaway's film The Pillow Book
and the D’Oyly Carte Company’s The Mikado.)
Copies available at the British Museum
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'HAIKU ANTHOLOGY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION'
pub. Association francaise de haiku, France
Japanese trans: Meguro Haiku International Circle, Japan
ISBN: 2-9522178-0-7
EAN: 9782952217804
Many thanks to the French-Japanese Sasakawa Foundation
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2nd With Words at Oppo} haiku contest
RESULTS RESULTS RESULTS
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Sandra Wallis wins
the 2nd With Words @ Oppo} Contest
and earns a fabulous haiku coffee mug
plus a meal for two at Oppo} Music Coffee House!
forgotten; a small yellow shoe
leans against a gate post
Sandra Wallis
Winning haiku poem entry
We also had a runner, Arvind,
she also deservedly won
a haiku coffee mug
A stranger is wearing my friend
lager drips onto my lap
We argue about peace
Arvind
Runner Up
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LINDA LAMUS won
the very first With Words @ Oppo} Contest
and deservedly earned her
fabulous haiku goodies!
pink and gold sunset
a blackbird’s song fills the air
no-one glances
Linda Lamus
Winning Entry
LINDA LAMUS supported U A Fanthorpe
at the Bristol Poetry Festival
Sunday 17th September.
Poetry Events in Bristol & South West:
www.poetrycan.co.uk
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We had 16 runners up for
the very first contest:
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ELIZ COOK: an Oppo} regular!
DAVID JOHNSON
(You can see him at the Bristol Poetry Festival with "Tales
from a Paralalia Universe" Arnolfini 8pm 14 September.)
HELEN BUCKINGHAM: haiku prize-winning published poet.
DRU MARLAND
MARY LAMBERT
SOPHIA M (currently in Brazil)
jen
BRETT
EMMA-JANE SMITH
TIANE MOXON-RIEDLIN
LIZZIE SQUIRE
JANET ROOME
OLIVER BARTON
JAN EJSYMONTT - Oppo} artist currently in Croatia
ALEX JOHNSON
RICHARD de LANCEY
Haiku Coffee Awards were given to:
BEN WALKER & JAMES MURRAY, Owners of Oppo},
to their unswerving loyalty to the haiku cause!
On the night of the Haiku Awards ANIL sang an amazing
special set at the award event:
Sample some tracks:
www.myspace.com/anilmusic
And we had a great Open Mic night too with musicians;
poetry from Nicki Sellars; and a very rude short story
from Oliver Mead! ;-)
ALL THE HAIKU WILL BE PART OF A NEW HAIKU EXHIBITION
replacing the current exhibition at the "backfront" room
overlooking Park Street at Oppo} plus some great
illustrations and manga and the infamous 8 recipe haiku?!
No names will be listed because we'd love it if you signed
your work personally please! ;-)
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Interests: Burning midnight ink.
Published writer: Yes
Freelance: Yes |
