We offer numerous unique activities, including workshops, over a wide range of subjects from poetry to prose including journal writing# mini-memoirs# haiku & senryu# Asian Forms# haibun# and renga.
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Brief CV:
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Founder/Director and Lead Tutor, With Words
Qualifications:
M.A. in Creative Writing, Bath Spa University 2007-2008
Diploma in Creative Writing, University of Bristol 2001
Selected Awards:
The Japan Times award for haiku and renga
Ritsumeikan University of Kyoto Peace Museum Award for haiku
Books:
‘A Click of Zen’ Release Date: Winter 2010
‘The Haiku Journal’ notebook:
launched in September 2008 at the Royal Festival Hall as part of Japan-UK 150 and the Thames Festival.
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Sunfast Press pub. 1997 reprinted 1998
(2nd Haiku Poetry Collection)
'Moonlighting'
Pamphlet Collection pub. British Haiku Society (1996)
Joint Editor
'Parade of Life: Poems inspired by Japanese prints' ISBN: 09539234-2-8 (2002)
Part of national Japan2001 Festival events from April 2001 to April 2002.
Over 300 local schoolchildren and adults wrote more than 400 poems inspired by art at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery's 'Parade of Life' Japanese Print Exhibition which became this book. (Bristol Poetry Festivals 2001 & 2002).
Parade of Life Book launches: Bristol, U.K. & Akita, Honshu, JAPAN
" 'Parade of Life' is very impressive." Hiroaki Sano, Japanese Embassy (London)
Poetry Editor
'The Poetic Image - Haiku and Photography'
National Academy of Writing / Birmingham Words Pamphlet (2006)
Alan has also appeared in over 75 haiku anthologies.
He is published in over fourteen countries, with fifteen years experience of haiku literature working alongside Western and Japanese proponents of this poetry genre.
Japanese newspapers that have printed his haiku include:
Yomiuri Shimbun (14 million readers)# Mainichi Shimbun# Japan Times# and The Mie Times.
