And if you are still based in Southampton (just an hour's train away from me) there is also Alison Williams who works at the Southampton Solent University library who is a fine published haiku & tanka writer.
Monday, May 26, 2008 Welcome to Tower and Fountain Diane Thank are due to Diane for setting up this blog. It is a great asset for anyone who cannot get to a meeting but has comments or a poem they would like to share, and for anyone who is interested in joining or following the group. Lynn
Most read poets - W.B. Yeats: 9 poems and Rudyard Kipling: 9 poems
Carol Ann Duffy - 8 poems
John Betjamen, U.A. Fanthorpe and Seamus Heaney - 7 poems each
D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, Roger Mc Gough, and Ted Hughes - 6 poems each
Longer discussions on - haiku, metre, The Rolling English Road (G.K. Chesterton), Oulipu, Found Poetry, and the meaning and Complexity of the word 'love' and its uses
Dates and topics: some topics have run over 2 months
February 2010 'D' poems
January 2010 Free Choice
December 2009 Christmas
May 2009 America
February 2009 Winter
January 2009 Free choice
6th December 2008 Parodies
8th November 2008 Free choice
23rd October 2008 Gold
2nd August 2008 Haiku
7th June 2008
7th April 2008 free choice
7th March 2008 Emotions
January 2008 The Sea
December 2007 Free choice
November 2006 Spring
October 2006
Poems discussed
January 2010 Percy Shelley, ‘The Cloud’; John Donne ‘Song’; Rudyard Kipling ‘The Way Through the Woods’; Ralph Hodgson’s ‘Eve’; Ted Hughes ‘The Thought-Fox’, and ‘Crow’s Nerve Fails’; Simon Armitage ‘About his Person’; Tony Harrison’ ‘First Aid in English’.
November 2006 Spring: 'Where to look' ,Sophie Hannah; 'West Wind', John Masefield, 'Between Meanings', Blooming; 'Loveliest of Trees', A.E.Housman; Song of Songs; 'Spring Song', John Dressel; 'Snowdrop', Ted Hughes; '4pm Spring Day' Greek poet (1936); 'Spring Poem' (flower shape) J.T Mori; 'Spring', T.Nash; 'To the Tune of Annie Laurie', John Betjeman; Verses from The Song of Soloman-King James’s Bible.
October 2006: Emily Dickinson 'Hope is a thing with Feathers'; John Masefield, 'Cargoes', Frederic Prokosch 'Dolls', A. E. Housman, 'Autumn Poem'
Poetry Links: read, and hear poets reading their own work
For courses, events and all things relating to HAIKU see http://area17.blogspot.com/
National Poetry Day 8th Oct 2009
Tower and Fountain: a 'slim volume' of members poems.
Issue 3 is out now, issue 4 forthcoming in November subject to having sufficient submissions. Poems may be submitted by email to lynnevda AT clara DOT co DOT uk
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How did your session on haiku go on the day?
Here are a few weblinks for current haiku:
With Words
Snapshot Press
Wing Beats: British Birds in Haiku
And if you are still based in Southampton (just an hour's train away from me) there is also Alison Williams who works at the Southampton Solent University library who is a fine published haiku & tanka writer.
all my very best,
Alan
Alan’s Area 17 blog
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