Does Fish-God Know haiku collection by Alan Summers

Does Fish-God Know [Paperback]

Alan Summers (Author)

Publisher: Yet To Be Named Free Press (October 15, 2012)
158 Pages
ISBN-10: 1479211044
ISBN-13: 978-1479211043

  

USA: $10.50  

U.K.: £6.50

Euros: €8,56 

Contents of Does Fish-God Know

Toy Suns, 11

Cupcake, 87

Shichi Fukujin, 155

General Publication Credits, 157

Award Credits, 158

 

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first quarter moon
dancing pinheads burst
into new angel DNA

Alan Summers

Publications credits: Asahi Shimbun (Japan, 2012)

powdered snow -

a crow’s eyes above

the no parking sign

Alan Summers

Publications credits: The Mie Times, Japan (1999); Haiku International magazine (Japan 1999); A Poet’s Notebook (2004); The In-Between Season (With Words Pamphlet Series 2012)

  

Award credit:

Joint Winner, Haiku International Association 10th Anniversary Haiku Contest (Japan 1999)

This book is dedicated to Karen, my wife, muse, and keeper of my heart.

My many thanks also to the good people of haiku, Colin Blundell, Editor of Blithe Spirit, the journal of the British Haiku Society, who published my Does Fish-God Know title poem, which also won the ekphrastic haiku award for that issue, and to my translator Hidenori Hiruta (Akita, Japan) for breathing into his fine translations of my work, and to Emily Dickinson.

hummingbird
I pull its colors
to create my own state

Alan Summers 

Publications credits:   see haiku here (Japan, haiga #531, 2011); haijinx IV:1 (2011); The Humours of Haiku (Iron Press 2012)

the grimace

of the roadside cat

its last

Alan Summers

Publications credits:  

Presence 5 (1997); The New Haiku, (Snapshot Press, 2002); The Haiku Foundation Per Diem (2011)

[T]his book contains some of the strongest haiku written by Alan Summers, carefully chosen for their cerebral attack, backbone, humour and adaptive modelling. If you're familiar with Alan's work you'll be pleasantly surprised. If you're not familiar with his work then you'll be rushing out to buy other titles by him.

Alan Summers is one of Britain's top haiku writers.

Brendan Slater, 2012.

hot sandwiches

the railing spikes collect

children's gloves

Alan Summers

Publications credits: Presence 41 (2010)

inner-city forest
a chameleon gives me
the undercover eye

Alan Summers

Publications credits: Asahi Shimbun (2011)

Ah, out of the old pond and into the city!

Does the Fish-God know? And if, what is it he knows? He knows of life with its hard sides and gloomy shades as it is for the many people really subjected to reality. He knows that life is not all flowers and wonderful sunsets. He knows of sides never – or rarely - shown in what at present is (mis)named as "modern haiku".

But he's a god with compassion. Even through rough sceneries The Emperor of Ice-Cream strolls. These haiku have been sorely missed. These are NEW haiku as they live and breathe on the back of tradition but are present in the world of the 21st century. Alan Summers makes use of the Western mind  and a Japanese tradition to show that haiku has a place in the modern world, and will still have one if we are ready to keep our minds open to every experience and influence that befalls a human.

A manifestation of gendai haiku that shows it's not a dream ...

Johannes S. H. Bjerg

International writer and artist writing in Danish & English. 

Managing Editor, Bones Journal

Author of  "Penguins/Pingviner" 2011

Convolvulus

a word on my tongue

and the bumblebee

Alan Summers

Publications credits: Blithe Spirit vol.14 no. 4 (British Haiku Society Journal 2004); see haiku here (Japan 2011); haijinx volume IV, issue 1 (2011)

vigilante movie

my elbow

heavy on your knee

Alan Summers

Publications credits:

Symmetry Pebbles (2011); The Humours of Haiku (Iron Press 2012)

Modern western haiku written by a Japan Times award winning author. Poems that will bend your mind and tempt you to re-evaluate your sense of reality. A must for lovers of experimental short-verse poetry.

Brendan Slater, YTBN Free Press

dandelion wind

mending bridges

in the mist

Alan Summers

Publications credits: Blithe Spirit (British Haiku Society Journal Vol 22 No. 3 2012)

beads of sweat

I lose myself in

the copulation of flies

Alan Summers

Publications credits:

Blithe Spirit (British Haiku Society Journal Vol 22 No. 3 2012) [Autumn 2012]; Sea Bandits ed Aubrie Cox (2012)

The book contains a wide range of experimental haiku and short verse, as well as one line haiku to seek out and read.

Does Fish-God Know [Paperback]
ISBN-10: 1479211044
ISBN-13: 978-1479211043

Pub. Yet To Be Named Free Press

Available at CreateSpace:
https://www.createspace.com/3979678

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Call for poetry for a new short verse, haiku, tanka, short haibun anthology entitled C.2.2. : Poets may submit up to 5 haiku, tanka, short haibun, free-verse along with a pen name. The anthology will be subtitled short-verse, and we are looking for poems between 1 to 8 lines in length.

“Between loss of identity and loss of name, it's surprising, how when you are referred to by a number, you hurt.” Prisoner KM5451

Yet To Be Named Free Press 

is putting together an anthology entitled C.2.2. on the following themes:

•       loss of identity and/or name
•       mental health issues
•       social issues
•       physical health issues
•       unsentimental love

C.2.2. Editors: 

Brendan Slater and Alan Summers

Please scroll down and the rest of the post before submitting your work.

Submissions Email Address:Please submit your work to: subs@yettobenamedfreepress.org 

http://www.yettobenamedfreepress.org/

Poets may submit up to 5 haiku, tanka, short haibun, free-verse along with a pen name.* 

The anthology will be subtitled under short-verse, and we are looking for poems between 1 to 8 lines in length.

Deadline:  30th November 2012.

Send us your darkest and/or most honest work to be considered for the anthology, alongside a pen name (pseudonym)   

We are looking for modern experimental short-verse only.

Submissions Email:
Please submit your work to: subs@yettobenamedfreepress.org

The anthology will contain around 200 poems and will be published in early 2013.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard.
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word.
The coward does it with a kiss

From the Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wildepublished under the pen name/pseudonym of c.3.3. (1898).  It was only until the 7th printing that Wilde’s name was actually revealed.

There is a nod to Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, where Bassanio asks: "Do all men kill the things they do not love?"

And this appears on Oscar Wilde's tomb;

And alien tears will fill for him,
… [a]nd outcasts always mourn.

*Only pen names will be included in the anthology but individual poems may be posted on personal blogs or other social media with the poet's real name.

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