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Alan Summers

@thehaikutec.bsky.social

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Founder of Call of the Page, and Pan Haiku Review https://www.callofthepage.org

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Alan Summers @thehaikutec.bsky.social · 23d

Our first video feedback haiku course!
Video & audio combined is a great way for Alan Summers to comment on your haiku poems, for him to hone in really clearly on specific lines and words in real time.

www.callofthepage.org/courses/haik...

#haiku #callofthepage #course #courses #writing #poetry

Call of the Page - Haiku Playback

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Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 13h

“The best way to learn to write is by reading. Reading critically, noticing paragraphs… how your favourite #writers use verbs, all the useful techniques. A scene catches you? Go back and study it. Find out how it works.“ https://buff.ly/3RtuXdV
@judieannrose.bsky.social #writingtips #writesky

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Marilyn Ward @haikupoet.bsky.social · 19h

Thank you very much @freshoutmag.bsky.social

freshoutmag.bsky.social @freshoutmag.bsky.social · 1d

#haiku by long time contributor, Marilyn Ward, of Lincolnshire, UK. (Bluesky: @haikupoet.bsky.social / TwitterX: @MarilynWar76626) #poetrycommuníty #poetry #poetrylovers #micropoetry #butterflies #lavender #lincolnshire

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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · 1d

for the heart
very small things
morning sparrows

- Deborah A. Bennett
Rattle Magazine, Issue 68

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Alan Summers @thehaikutec.bsky.social · 1d

Oddly topical other than for Halloween itself.

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School Reading List @schoolreadinglist.bsky.social · 1d

Browse our lists of recommended books for children in primary schools, covering books for all abilities in EYFS, KS1 and KS2. schoolreadinglist.co.uk/category/rea... #kidlit #education

Reading lists for preschool and primary school learners

schoolreadinglist.co.uk

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Òrak @orrinonline.bsky.social · 2d

bluecollarworkers... trashmen'llcometo collecthrowawaykigo

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Paul David Mena @extraspecialbitter.bsky.social · 2d

urban haiku
an open season
on kigo

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Òrak @orrinonline.bsky.social · 2d

factoryjob smokestackloudlybelching overworker'sconversations #senryu

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Robert J. Tiess @robertjtiess.bsky.social · 4d

Here's something I often tell poets asking me how they might refine their work:

* READ YOUR POEMS OUT LOUD. *

Or ask someone to read them aloud.

It can be a revelation. Try it!

Once I started to do that regularly, I wanted more meter and musicality in my poems.

#poetry #poets #writing #reading

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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · Sep 2

spring deepens
my uncombed afro
full of cherry blossoms

- Deborah A. Bennett
The Heron's Nest, June 2022

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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · Sep 3

learning
to
become
no
one
firefly

- Deborah A. Bennett
Whiptail: Journal of the Single-Line
Poem, Issue 4

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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · Sep 5

how to explain a gun
to the small child singing
to the plum trees at dawn

- Deborah A. Bennett
Frogpond Journal 47:1

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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · Sep 8

as if all
were right with the world
magnolia blooms

- Deborah A. Bennett
Amethyst Review, September 2022

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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · Sep 9

the thing that falls away
is myself
spring moon

- Deborah A. Bennett
Plum Tree Tavern,
The Spring Moon Poems, May 2022

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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · 24d

not
dying
yet
pierced
through
saguaro
moon

- Deborah A. Bennett
Whiptail: Journal of the Single-Line
Poem, Issue 7

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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · 5d

fresh spring breeze
picking dandelions
from the child's teeth

- Deborah A. Bennett
Shadowpond Journal, Issue IV

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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · 3d

crisp blue sky
a pair of chuck taylor's
hanging from a wire

- Deborah A. Bennett
Tsuri-Doro Haiku/Senryu, Issue 25

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Alan Summers @thehaikutec.bsky.social · 3d

Make it fresh, make it interesting, push not pull at boundaries.
#haiku
www.callofthepage.org/the-pan-haik...

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 3d

wake up babe
new generational James Joyce exhibition just dropped

University of Reading Special Collections @uorspeccoll.bsky.social · 3d

🥳 Now open 🎉

Discover rarely-seen letters and artefacts from the personal archive of beloved author James Joyce in James Joyce: Enigmas & Puzzles.

Explore Joyce's social network of friends and artists, his family life, his inspirations, and the adjustments he made to work despite ill-health.

James Joyce: Enigmas and Puzzles. 7 October - 9 February 2026. Uni of Reading Special Collections.

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AsurasHaiku @asurashaiku.bsky.social · 3d

the autumn fly
becomes a letter
in the headline

--Saō Murakami

秋の蝿見出し一字になりきって　村上沙央

#haiku #gendaihaiku #translation

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Books for Keeps, the online children's books review journal @booksforkeeps.bsky.social · 4d

The #BranfordBoaseAward, 'a barometer of developments in children’s books' opens for submissions today with the announcement of this year's panel of judges. They will be led by 2025 winner Margaret McDonald. #writing #editing #KidLitUK

booksforkeeps.co.uk/margaret-mcd...

Graphic with photographs of the four judges of this year's Branford Boase Award, awarded to author and editor of the year's outstanding debut novel for children and young people. They are Anjali Patel, Katherine Woodfine, Margaret McDonald and Stephen Dilley. The award is supported by ALCS and Walker Books.

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Òrak @orrinonline.bsky.social · 3d

vodka
and orange juice
curled up reading

#senryu

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Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 4d

snog marry avoid
I win again
at solitaire

#haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (avoid)

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Makoto | Kati Mohr | pi & anne @pi-and-anne.bsky.social · 3d

Sea gulls.
Water heaving less
in the far-off ocean,
more in the flotsam
he picked up for me.

#tanka #poem #magneticpoetry #magneticpoem

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