Alan Summers
@thehaikutec.bsky.social
Founder of Call of the Page, and Pan Haiku Review
https://www.callofthepage.org
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Make it fresh, make it interesting, push not pull at boundaries.
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October 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Make it fresh, make it interesting, push not pull at boundaries.
#haiku
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@completethehaiga.bsky.social challenge
#completethehaiga 119 #prompt #haiga #haiku #senryu #duostich #haiku
#completethehaiga 119 #prompt #haiga #haiku #senryu #duostich #haiku
October 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Pan Haiku Review issue 6
2025 Autumn/Winter Edition (PHR6)
This is a haiku only special edition
Submissions:
October 1st through to 31st 2025
Send: 1 or 2 haiku of any style or approach.
Submission email address:
panhaikureview [at] gmail [dot] com
www.callofthepage.org/the-pan-haik...
2025 Autumn/Winter Edition (PHR6)
This is a haiku only special edition
Submissions:
October 1st through to 31st 2025
Send: 1 or 2 haiku of any style or approach.
Submission email address:
panhaikureview [at] gmail [dot] com
www.callofthepage.org/the-pan-haik...
October 1, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Pan Haiku Review issue 6
2025 Autumn/Winter Edition (PHR6)
This is a haiku only special edition
Submissions:
October 1st through to 31st 2025
Send: 1 or 2 haiku of any style or approach.
Submission email address:
panhaikureview [at] gmail [dot] com
www.callofthepage.org/the-pan-haik...
2025 Autumn/Winter Edition (PHR6)
This is a haiku only special edition
Submissions:
October 1st through to 31st 2025
Send: 1 or 2 haiku of any style or approach.
Submission email address:
panhaikureview [at] gmail [dot] com
www.callofthepage.org/the-pan-haik...
Showing three of four haiku poems in a new Modern Haiku Press anthology. Available in print or flip book eBook format: modernhaiku.org/mhbooks/Haik...
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#haiku
September 26, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Showing three of four haiku poems in a new Modern Haiku Press anthology. Available in print or flip book eBook format: modernhaiku.org/mhbooks/Haik...
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#haiku
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Check out the #haibun art version #haibunga #haiku #prose at #callofthepage by @grampshaiku.bsky.social
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Check out the #haibun art version #haibunga #haiku #prose at #callofthepage by @grampshaiku.bsky.social
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September 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Check out the #haibun art version #haibunga #haiku #prose at #callofthepage by @grampshaiku.bsky.social
www.callofthepage.org
Check out the #haibun art version #haibunga #haiku #prose at #callofthepage by @grampshaiku.bsky.social
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September 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Ah, though haiku aren't often about romance, that the domain of tanka poetry, we occasionally oblige. 😀❤️
honeymoon hotel
I peel away the seasons
of a red rose
Alan Summers
Heart Breaths: Book of Contemporary Haiku
(Cyberwit 2016) ed. Jean LeBlanc
honeymoon hotel
I peel away the seasons
of a red rose
Alan Summers
Heart Breaths: Book of Contemporary Haiku
(Cyberwit 2016) ed. Jean LeBlanc
July 25, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Ah, though haiku aren't often about romance, that the domain of tanka poetry, we occasionally oblige. 😀❤️
honeymoon hotel
I peel away the seasons
of a red rose
Alan Summers
Heart Breaths: Book of Contemporary Haiku
(Cyberwit 2016) ed. Jean LeBlanc
honeymoon hotel
I peel away the seasons
of a red rose
Alan Summers
Heart Breaths: Book of Contemporary Haiku
(Cyberwit 2016) ed. Jean LeBlanc
May 29, 2025 at 10:07 PM
#duostich #haiku published haikuKATHA journal issue 43 (May 2025)
Also appearing are #monostich and #tetrastich (both haiku) as well.
Also appearing are #monostich and #tetrastich (both haiku) as well.
May 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
#duostich #haiku published haikuKATHA journal issue 43 (May 2025)
Also appearing are #monostich and #tetrastich (both haiku) as well.
Also appearing are #monostich and #tetrastich (both haiku) as well.
Happy to have not one but TWO #monostich accepted and published by Kingfisher journal, thanks to Tanya McDonald and a brilliant illustrator.
#haiku #monoku
#haiku #monoku
April 29, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Happy to have not one but TWO #monostich accepted and published by Kingfisher journal, thanks to Tanya McDonald and a brilliant illustrator.
#haiku #monoku
#haiku #monoku
April 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Juxtaposition in haiku: The use of distance
white sails...
a wind has also shaped
the tree
Alan Summers
LINE 1/fragment:
white sails (in the distance)
PHRASE:
a wind has also shaped
the tree
Leaving out clichéd words such as:
distant
sound
taste
sensation
#haiku #juxtaposition
white sails...
a wind has also shaped
the tree
Alan Summers
LINE 1/fragment:
white sails (in the distance)
PHRASE:
a wind has also shaped
the tree
Leaving out clichéd words such as:
distant
sound
taste
sensation
#haiku #juxtaposition
April 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Juxtaposition in haiku: The use of distance
white sails...
a wind has also shaped
the tree
Alan Summers
LINE 1/fragment:
white sails (in the distance)
PHRASE:
a wind has also shaped
the tree
Leaving out clichéd words such as:
distant
sound
taste
sensation
#haiku #juxtaposition
white sails...
a wind has also shaped
the tree
Alan Summers
LINE 1/fragment:
white sails (in the distance)
PHRASE:
a wind has also shaped
the tree
Leaving out clichéd words such as:
distant
sound
taste
sensation
#haiku #juxtaposition
so much depends–
the black box glazed
in hibernal rain
Alan Summers
Surface meaning: immediate news (plane disaster); a nod to William Carlos Williams (vertical axis). A battered black box re wabisabi of wear&tear, poignancy, yet vital importance.
Yugen mystery, not yet solved.
the black box glazed
in hibernal rain
Alan Summers
Surface meaning: immediate news (plane disaster); a nod to William Carlos Williams (vertical axis). A battered black box re wabisabi of wear&tear, poignancy, yet vital importance.
Yugen mystery, not yet solved.
March 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
so much depends–
the black box glazed
in hibernal rain
Alan Summers
Surface meaning: immediate news (plane disaster); a nod to William Carlos Williams (vertical axis). A battered black box re wabisabi of wear&tear, poignancy, yet vital importance.
Yugen mystery, not yet solved.
the black box glazed
in hibernal rain
Alan Summers
Surface meaning: immediate news (plane disaster); a nod to William Carlos Williams (vertical axis). A battered black box re wabisabi of wear&tear, poignancy, yet vital importance.
Yugen mystery, not yet solved.
It was a very dark night in Selfoss, Iceland but worth it to visit the centre!
March 18, 2025 at 12:55 PM
It was a very dark night in Selfoss, Iceland but worth it to visit the centre!
March 17, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Valentine's Day
Valentine’s Day
my wife reads up
on Henry VIII
Alan Summers
The Humours of Haiku ed. David Cobb
ISBN 978-0-9565725-4-7
(Iron Press 2012)
Saint Valentin
ma femme potasse
sur Henry VIII
French trans: Serge Tomé
#valentine #valentines #haiku #senryu
Valentine’s Day
my wife reads up
on Henry VIII
Alan Summers
The Humours of Haiku ed. David Cobb
ISBN 978-0-9565725-4-7
(Iron Press 2012)
Saint Valentin
ma femme potasse
sur Henry VIII
French trans: Serge Tomé
#valentine #valentines #haiku #senryu
February 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Valentine's Day
Valentine’s Day
my wife reads up
on Henry VIII
Alan Summers
The Humours of Haiku ed. David Cobb
ISBN 978-0-9565725-4-7
(Iron Press 2012)
Saint Valentin
ma femme potasse
sur Henry VIII
French trans: Serge Tomé
#valentine #valentines #haiku #senryu
Valentine’s Day
my wife reads up
on Henry VIII
Alan Summers
The Humours of Haiku ed. David Cobb
ISBN 978-0-9565725-4-7
(Iron Press 2012)
Saint Valentin
ma femme potasse
sur Henry VIII
French trans: Serge Tomé
#valentine #valentines #haiku #senryu
I will in future!!! And we want you to come back, as you know! 😀
February 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I will in future!!! And we want you to come back, as you know! 😀
February 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The Blo͞o Outlier Journal Summer Issue 2021 (Issue #2)
ed. Alan Summers, with Grix, and Kat Lehmann
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ed. Alan Summers, with Grix, and Kat Lehmann
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February 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
The Blo͞o Outlier Journal Summer Issue 2021 (Issue #2)
ed. Alan Summers, with Grix, and Kat Lehmann
www.callofthepage.org/the-pan-haik...
ed. Alan Summers, with Grix, and Kat Lehmann
www.callofthepage.org/the-pan-haik...
I wrote a zuihitsu "A Boy Called Snow" which appears here:
February 11, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I wrote a zuihitsu "A Boy Called Snow" which appears here: