British haiku multi-events, including haiku, renga, renku, haibun, and haiga art at the Stripe Studio, University of Winchester with Notes from the Gean haiku journal on the road, plus The Kigo Lab

 

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 Stripe Studio

Dr Mark Rutter: http://www.winchester.ac.uk/ACADEMICDEPARTMENTS/ENGLISHCREATIVEWRITINGANDAMERICANSTUDIES/PEOPLEPROFILES/Pages/MarkRutter.aspx

There is going to be a haiku/renga weekend at the University of Winchester on Sat 4th and Sun 5th of August, sponsored by the University and hosted by Mark Rutter and the poets of Notes From the Gean on the Road: Alan Summers, Alison Williams, Colin Stewart Jones, and Andy Pomphrey.

There will be haiga (haiku and image) and linked verse workshops and a ginko (haiku walk) in the Winchester watermeadows, where Keats wrote ‘To Autumn.’  All events except the ginko will be held in Stripe Studio 2, in the Stripe Building, University of Winchester.

   

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:http://www.winchester.ac.uk/ACADEMICDEPARTMENTS/ENGLISHCREATIVEWRITINGANDAMERICANSTUDIES/NEWSANDEVENTS/Pages/NewsandEvents.aspx

:http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/university-of-winchester-and-notes-from.html

:http://www.geantreepress.com/

  

Alan Summers

With Words, the Haiku Journal, and The Kigo Lab

With Words: http://www.withwords.org.uk

About The Kigo Lab: http://www.multiversesjournal.com/the-thin-white-expanse.html

http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/haiku-from-alan-summerss-recently.html

Colin Stewart Jones 

Editor in Chief, Notes from the Gean haiku magazine, and proprietor of Gean Tree Press.

http://www.notesfromthegean.com/editors.html

http://www.geantreepress.com

http://www.geantreepress.com/search?q=basho

 " A powerful collection—innovative, sublime, raw, beautiful. Great work..." -- George Swede.
Colin Stewart Jones will be launching his haibun collection with a short talk about the energy and disciplines of fusing haiku poetry with haiku-taut prose.

Andy Pomphrey
http://yahforyou.com/artstudios/andy-pomphrey/ 

Alison Williams
Notes from the Gean haiku editor
http://notesfromthegean.com/nftg/editors/41-editors/2-alison-williams.html
 
Karen Hoy
http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/karen-hoy-appears-in-major-new-haiku.html

And much more happening at the Stripe Studio:

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tanka workshops and tanka from Alan Summers at 140 And Counting on iTunes

a small death
the cracked shell
of a snail
now this delay
at the train station



Alan Summers
Previously published:
Mosaic Anthology (Bath Spa University 2009); Blithe Spirit vol. 20 no. 4 December 2010; The Strand Book Of International Poets 2010 (Strand Publishing 2010) ISBN: 9781907340062; Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka Vol. 3 (MET Press 2010)  ISBN 978-1-935398-27-1; 140 And Counting (Upper Rubber Boot Books 2011) ISBN 978-1-937794-04-0


sometimes
before falling in love
with my wife
again and again
the cries of swifts

Alan Summers
Previously published:
Blithe Spirit (Vol. 20 No. 3 2010, British Haiku Society)
140 And Counting (Seven by Twenty magazine pub. Upper Rubber Boot Books)

140 And Counting is a collection of the best twitter literature from the first two years of the journal Seven by Twenty’s history, on relationships, nature, work, animals, seasons, science fiction and fantasy, and mortality: 141 clever little allotments of literature by 119 authors in 1 exquisite ebook! Plucky underdog online journal Seven by Twenty is an online magazine using Twitter as its publishing platform, for readers at home and on mobile devices, which started publishing weekdaily in July 2009. Seven by Twenty specializes in literary and speculative writing that fits in a tweet – they mostly publish haiku and related forms (like scifaiku and senryu), and cinquains and American sentences, and very, very, very short stories.

iTunes Preview:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/140-and-counting/id495503391?mt=11 

• $4.99
• Available on iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Published:Dec 10, 2011
• Publisher: Upper Rubber Boot Books
• Seller: Joanne Elizabeth Merriam
• Print Length: 162 Pages
• Language: English
• Requirements: This book requires iBooks 1.3.1 or later and iOS 4.3.3 or later. Books can only be viewed using iBooks on an iPad, iPhone (3G or later), or iPod touch (2nd generation or later).

For anyone interested in online lessons and workshops the tanka journal way please do contact us at: tanka@withwords.org.uk



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University of Winchester and Notes from the Gean haiku journal present a haiku; haiga; and renku weekend

Haiku/Renga Weekend

There is going to be a haiku/renga weekend at the University of Winchester on Sat 4th and Sun 5th of August, sponsored by the University and hosted by Mark Rutter and the poets of Notes From the Gean on the Road: Alan Summers, Alison Williams, Colin Stewart Jones, and Andy Pomphrey.

There will be haiga (haiku and image) and linked verse workshops and a ginko (haiku walk) in the Winchester watermeadows, where Keats wrote ‘To Autumn.’  All events except the ginko will be held in Stripe Studio 2, in the Stripe Building, University of Winchester.

• Saturday August 4th: 10am: We will meet in Stripe Studio 2, followed by a ginko in the Winchester water meadows (bring camera as well as writing pad, pen, etc).

• Sunday August 5th: 10am: Stripe Studio 2: morning: haiga workshop; afternoon: renga workshop.

Anyone interested in taking part can contact Mark Rutter at mark.rutter@winchester.ac.uk or  flyingsaucers@btinternet.com.

All events are free and all are welcome.

A number of us are British Haiku Society members, and with the extra opportunity of talking to Notes from the Gean haiku journal Editor in Chief, and owner of the Geantree Press, Colin Stewart Jones, from Aberdeen, Scotland, and previous British Haiku Society haiku magazine editor Mark Rutter, this is really a rare chance for anyone wanting to know more about haiku publications, and the art of haiga, haiku, renga/renku, and haibun prose.

 
University of Winchester weblink:
http://www.winchester.ac.uk/ACADEMICDEPARTMENTS/ENGLISHCREATIVEWRITINGANDAMERICANSTUDIES/NEWSANDEVENTS/Pages/NewsandEvents.aspx

The Winchester Watermeadows haiku walk will be a stunning opportunity to walk where Keats wrote 'To Autumn' and also take part in a traditional Japanese custom in haiku poetry.


Saturday August 4th: 10am: We first meet in Stripe Studio 2, followed by a ginko in the Winchester water meadows (bring camera as well as writing pad, pen, etc).

http://www.lymington.org/placestovisit/winchester.html

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haiga artist Kuniharu Shimizu of Tokyo selects a haiku by Alan Summers for his artwork

Kuniharu Shimizu said:

" I like the contrast of the subject matters, big truck in the artwork, and a can of coke in the verse. However the sizes differ, both are man-made things, expressing their existence in their own ways."

Please feel free to add a comment or two both on this blog, and at Kuniharu Shimizu's website:
http://seehaikuhere.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/haiga-865-alan-summers-haiku.html

Donna Fleischer says:
 
"What an imaginative pairing. The gleam of the industrial world of machines and metal, and cans of cherry cola, with room for a morning star.
 
Posting this at my blog word pond, with delight! Thank you both!"


Donna Fleischer

In December 2011, Fiera Lingue published seven new poems, honoring Donna among “those poets I evaluate as representative of our times” (Anny Ballardini, editor).

Her recently published poems include: "The Red Photogram", in Visions, Voices, and Verses, an anthology of poems of ekphrasis (Exiles Press and The New Britain Museum of American Art, 2012).

Donna is assistant editor of bottle rockets, a journal of the small poem, and of bottle rockets press anthologies and serial volumes.

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