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.

Tickets will shortly be available at: http://www.worcslitfest.com/shop-tickets/

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The Haiku Walk:
Nature As Inspiration

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As part of 2010 Bath Japanese Festival, Writing Events Bath Presents: Alan Summers - Renga: splicing spontaneity into your writing Thursday May 20th 6.30 - 8.30 pm Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights 14-15 John Street Bath, Avon BA1 2JL WHAT IS RENGA? Renga is a unique group 'collaborative' linked verse poetry form: each verse moves on and shifts away from th...

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The ‘Summer Haiku Almanac' workshop & walk

with Alan Summers and Karen Hoy.

http://cypruswell.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/the-dartmoor-summer-haiku-almanac-workshop-and-walk/

Alan Summers: “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.”

Join The Dartmoor Sum...

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WRITING POETRY: the haiku way

http://area17.blogspot.com/2010/02/unique-residential-course-monday-friday.html

Monday - Friday 12th - 16th April 2010

Here is a little taster of what we'll be enjoying during the residential course:

The Haiku Game: great ice-breaker and relaxed way to start the course.
Haiku: its history, techniques, how to keep a haiku journ...

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almost lost
in the shimmer of water
several ducklings


Mi-zu-ha-e-te Hi-ka-ri-ni-ka-su-mu Ko-ga-mo-ka-na

"Alan-san's haiku came to me with the Japanese translation. This is a good translation, written in the perfect haiku format 5-7-5. Mi-zu-ha-e-te Hi-ka-ri-ni-ka-su-mu Ko-ga-mo-ka-na"
Kuniharu Shimizu, Nara, Japan

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the sticky label
over the christmas card
the new boyfriend’s name

Alan Summers

published:

Raku Teapot: Haiku
Raku Teapot Press/White Owl Publishing, California 2003
Book:  1-891691-03-1 ; CD:  1-891691-04-X

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the night train passes
along the mountain trail
garlic snores


le train de nuit passe
sur une voie de montagne
ronflements d'ail   

(French trans. Serge Tome)

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sunlight breaks
on a bird
and its portion of the roof

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hi   wa   torini   yane   no   ibasho   ni   sosogi   keri

Japanese translation by Hiromi Inoue,  Ehime Prefecture, Japan

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two haiku



new voicemail
I catch a second of pub sound
who are you where?



lime quarter
an ice cube collapses
over jazz


new voicemail publication credit:

British Haiku Society Journal Blithe Spirit  (Sept 2001)

lime quarter publication credits:

City: Bristol Today in Poems and Pictures  Paralaia  2004 ISBN: 0954811704 BBC ...

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