Progetto HAIKU ITALIANO – Italian haiku in translation # 4 – Alan Summers

My haiku in Italian!

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“train station/ the heat of the platform/ in my blood” (Alan Summers)

Alan Summers

Traduzione in italiano di Corrado Aiello

*
lullaby of rain
another pinch of saffron
in the pumpkin soup ⁽¹⁾

pioggia cullante
un altro pizzico di zafferano
nella zuppa di zucca

*
whispered echo 
a snowman on the run
becomes sunshine ⁽²⁾

eco sussurrata…
un pupazzo di neve in fuga
diventa luce solare

*
a riverbed
of unfulfilled wishes
starry starry night ⁽³⁾

un alveo
di desideri irrealizzati, notte
piena piena di stelle

*
museum quarter
the midnight blue
of geese ⁽⁴⁾

quartiere museo
il blu mezzanotte
delle oche

*
train station
the heat of the platform
in my blood

stazione ferroviaria
il calore della banchina
nel mio sangue ⁽⁵⁾

Alan Summers, fondatore di Call of the Page (www.callofthepage.org) è uno scrittore vincitore del premio Japan Times…

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Blo͞o Outlier Journal senryu special

Blo͞o Outlier Journal senryu special
New Year’s Eve (Winter) 2022 issue
editors Alan Summers & Pippa Phillips

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New Year’s Eve (Winter) 2022 issue

editors Alan Summers & Pippa Phillips

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Blo͞o Outlier Journal email for sending senryu for the December 2022 issue!

Now open to send senryu!

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Blo͞o Outlier Journal senryu special call out

Editor-in-chief Alan Summers

Guest editor Pippa Phillips

Submit1-2 previously unpublished senryu (no theme)

Submission dates:1st November to 20th November 2022

Subject line:Senryu submission – AUTHOR NAME

Submission email:outliersenryu@gmail.com

Publication:December 2022

Previous issues:

The Blo͞o Outlier Journal volumes

As we might have different choices the fun is that Blo͞o Outlier Journal publishes each editor’s selection.

There’ll be times when there is an overlap and that will be fascinating, as well as when only one editor selects a senryu. There is no wrong decision and it gives the poet more than one shot at being accepted.

Pippa Phillips’ bio:

“Pippa Phillips writes short things and long things. She wishes she lived closer to the ocean.”

Pippa can be found at:

@pippaesque on Instagram, Twitter, TikTok

Pippa Phillips was also a guest editor for

failed haiku A Journal of English Senryu

vol…

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The Blo͞o Outlier Journal volumes

The Blo͞o Outlier Journal volumes 1-3 plus news of vol 4 (the senryu special)!

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The Blo͞o Outlier Journal volumes 2020 – 2022

The Blo͞o Outlier Journal Christmas Special Issue#1 2020 Editor Alan Summers

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Blo͞o Outlier Journal #3 the natural history haiku issue ed. Alan SummersDownload

Blo͞o Outlier Journal senryu special

Winter 2022

Editor-in-chief Alan Summers

Guest co-editor Pippa Phillips

Pippa says:

“Pippa Phillips writes short things and long things. She wishes she lived closer to the ocean.”

Can be found:

@pippaesque on Instagram, Twitter, TikTok

Pippa Phillips was also a guest editor

for failed haiku A Journal of English Senryu

vol. 7 issue 78 (May 2022)

SUBMISSION DETAILS:

email to be announced shortly!

Submit 1-2 senryu

Submission dates: November 1st to November 20th

(Tuesday 1st November to Sunday 20th November 2022)

The 20th November midnight cut off will be when I’m up Monday and update the autoresponse to say…

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Alan Summers’ nightfall

I have written many haiku about blackbirds, though this is the closest to capturing just one of their aspects.

Haiku Commentary

nightfall the key turns into a blackbird

— Alan Summers (England, UK)

Publication credit:

First published: Blithe Spirit 31.4 (November 2021)

Article:

The Unseen Go-Between in Haiku by Alan Summers
Haiku Society of America Haiku Spotlight (January 2022)

Award Credit

Runner up: Museum of Haiku Literature
Blithe Spirit vol. 32 no. 1 (February 2022)

Commentary

I appreciate the mystery (yugen) in this haiku and the possible interpretations. I initially felt a kind of fantasy-surrealism in this monoku. “The key” could be to a door, and if so, a door to what? Is the key a door that leads inside a physical building or room? Is it a key to a door that leadsoutsidea building? Or, is this a key to a psychological door in the poet’s mind or within someone else’s psyche? In one interpretation, I get the feeling the key is turning and opening a locked door…

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Babylon Sidedoor October issue 2022

Excited to have released this mini issue!

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ed. Alan Summers

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SHAHAI The art of three – photography; haiku; typography RPS Royal Photographic Society 2022 PDF download

Royal Photographic Society presentation with two bonus shahai.

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Blo͞o Outlier Journal, issue 3

A wonderful write up of this issue by Paul Beech!

Alan

Alan Summers
founder/editor, Blo͞o Outlier Journal

Grandy's Landing

Hi folks,

It’s a chilly grey morning here on Halkyn Mountain, mist just lifting over the estuary below.

But for all you haiku aficionados, and all you nature lovers out there, I have a treat for you, because last week the eagerly awaited 3^rd issue of Blo͞o Outlier Journal, the Natural History Haiku edition, came out, edited by the amazing Alan Summers.

Dedicated to the late, great Gene Murtha, issue 3, with its brilliant Blo͞o Outpost features and wonderful guest haiku, its artwork and photography, is an online journal of the very highest standard.

I find myself dipping into it at every opportunity because it truly is engrossing, rewarding and inspiring, the work emphasising the interconnectedness of all lifeforms inhabiting this planet, and the necessity of looking after the environment. An imperative for sure.

My partner Maureen Weldon’s haiku, with video footage added by the editor, will be…

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Blo͞o Outlier Journal issue #3

The Natural History Edition is out!

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the natural history haiku edition

ed. Alan Summers dedicated to Gene Murtha

published: Summer 2022

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About Alan SummersFee

A little about myself!

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For anyone not familiar with my background in haiku etc…

you can scroll down to
“About The Haiku Reader Editor-in-Chief: Alan Summers”

https://thehaikureader.blogspot.com/2021/12/about-haiku-reader-editor-in-chief-alan.html

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