Description: The 'Summer Haiku Almanac' workshop & walk
The Big Yurt, Nr Poundsgate Sunday 13 June, 10 4pm
Workshop leaders: Alan Summers & Karen Hoy
The aim of the day is to produce Dartmoor Haiku, from which will begin the creation of a Devon Haiku Almanac.
This follows in the tradition of haiku poets in Japan, who traditionally produce seasonal almanacs - Haiku Saijiki.
The workshop will include warm up exercises and group discussion/Q&A with a complimentary Haiku Journal notebook for each person.
There will also be opportunities for micro one-to-one for anyone bringing previously written haiku draft poems.
THE HAIKU WALK:
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. Alan Summers
The day will include a walk with a second complimentary Haiku Journal notebook to use for recording field-notes and/or rough drafts.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
Please bring old Devon/Dartmoor colloquial terms, nicknames and sayings to help create a Haiku Saijiki for Devon.
Workshop Fees:
By donation, with a suggested £10 - 25 for all day.
SPECIAL OFFER:
These workshops are for members of Moor Poets, so if you're not already a member, your first workshop fee will also automatically make you a member for this year.
Please bring a packed lunch if coming for a full day. Tea and coffee is available.
If appropriate, please bring outdoor wear (even sunscreen!) suitable for the weather and month on Dartmoor.
To reserve your place, call or email Jennie Osborne on 01803 840541 / jenniedancing@googlemail.com.
Moor Poets Website: http://www.moorpoets.org.uk/
Please remember:
YOUR PLACE ON WORKSHOPS MUST BE BOOKED IN ADVANCE, NUMBERS ARE OFTEN LIMITED.
WORKSHOP LEADERS
Alan Summers is a Japanese poetry expert and tutor/director of With Words; a Japan Times award-winning writer; 2009 Embassy of Japan 'Japan-UK 150' haiku & renga poet-in-residence, and published on the BBC Poetry Season website. He is also joint coordinator (with June Wentland) of The 1000 Verse Renga Project.
Karen Hoy is a published haiku writer and has assisted Alan with both Poetry School and other workshops. She is published in "My Mother Threw Knives" Second Light Publications ISBN: 0-9546934-1-8 (2006), and was Highly Commended in the BBC Wildlife Magazine Nature Writer of the Year Awards, 2009.
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