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Online internet courses by Call of the Page

Are you interested in a Call of the Page course? We run courses on haiku; tanka; tanka stories/prose; haibun; shahai; and other genres.

Please email Karen or Alan at our joint email address: admin@callofthepage.org
We will let you know more about these courses.

Call of the Page (Alan & Karen)

Wednesday, June 03, 2020

Recent haiku poetry collections by Alan Summers

Three recent ebook collections by Alan Summers, with a few examples of monoku, monostich, and duostich verses:

Forbidden Syllables: 
https://bonesjournal.com/books/Alan_Summers-Forbidden-Syllables-bones-ed.pdf
Glint: https://proletaria730964817.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/glint.pdf
Comfort of Crows: 

https://www.velvetduskpublishing.com/uploads/3/7/5/9/37595991/the_comfort_of_crows_ebook.pdf


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FORBIDDEN Syllables, released by Bones Library, 
is a collection of monoku & monostich.



the murmur of people through failed glass



late night television spills its whisky tumbler



Forbidden Syllables (Bones Library May 2020)






Glint:




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foreclosure the family home hides its bricks 


pollen count a person denied a home



Glint by Alan Summers
published by:
Proletaria   politics philosophy phenomena  (February 2020)








Comfort of Crows
Alan Summers & Hifsa Ashraf:





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  A wonderful collaborative collection!





a dreaming forest busy as Hitchcock


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Perseids weaving dreams out of the blue 

Hifsa Ashraf




The Comfort of Crows 
Hifsa Ashraf and Alan Summers 
(Velvet Dusk Publishing, December 2019)

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A deep bow to the three publishers!


Proletaria https://proletaria.org 
Velvet Dusk Publishing https://www.velvetduskpublishing.com






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Alan Summers is a double Japan Times award winning writer, filmed by NHK Television (Japan) for “Europe meets Japan - Alan's Haiku Journey”; a Pushcart Prize nominated poet for haiku and haibun, and Best Small Fictions nominated for haibun. 

He is President of the United Haiku & Tanka Society, a previous General Secretary of the British Haiku Society (1998 until 2000) and Editor Emeritus for the multi-award-winning Red Moon Anthologies (USA) for best haikai literature from 2000 until 2005.

He has seven Haiku Collections: 

(YTBN Press 2012) 
The In-Between Season  
(With Words Pamphlet Series 2012)
Sundog Haiku Journal: an Australian Year 
(Sunfast Press 1997)
Moonlighting  
British Haiku Society Intimations Pamphlet Series (1996)
Comfort of Crows (Alan Summers & Hifsa Ashraf) 
Velvet Dusk Publishing (2019)
Glint 
(Proletria 2020)
Forbidden Syllables 
(Bones Library 2020)


Alan is co-founder, and full-time Lead Tutor, for haikai-based Call of the Page: www.callofthepage.org

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