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Notes from the Gean - annual print volume

2010-05-02T01:22:00.000+01:00

Notes from the Gean will be publishing a print volume on June 1st to co-incide with our first anniversary.

The book, brighter water, will feature some 180 works encompassing haiku, tanka, haiga and haibun from our first four issues. Here is a sneak preview of the cover.

Haiku Now winners

2010-05-02T01:14:00.000+01:00

The haiku editor of Notes from the Gean, Lorin Ford placed first in the contemporary category of the Haiku Now 2010 competition, sponsored by The Haiku Foundation, and our tanka editor, H.Gene Murtha, was runner-up in the innovative category.

I knew these guys had talent!

Article

2010-05-02T00:39:00.000+01:00

With four other editors of top online haiku magazines, I recently took part in an article for Winning Writers designed to act as a reading primer for haiku. The article was fun to do and helped consolidate my own thinking as to what processes are involved when I write a haiku. Well, at least some of the time anyway. My thanks to Tracy Koretsky for her unwavering efforts to educate other writers on the finer points of haiku and for her complete professionalism.

Col

The full article can be read online at winningwriters.com :

http://winningwriters.com/resources/critiques/2010/urc_1004haiku.php

I can not

2010-05-01T16:13:00.000+01:00

angry man

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another ring

2010-02-15T06:20:00.002Z

hazy moon

2010-01-22T01:03:00.000Z

Baby Steps

2010-01-18T12:28:00.002Z

Baby Steps

“It’s like the land that time fucking forgot round here.” I nod in agreement as I pass my neighbour on the path. “Bloody council! We’re always the last to get anything done.” Well at least she is speaking to me today. She does have a point though. While going ahead with a new £100 million headquarters Aberdeen City Council are trying to claw back money by cutting back on what they regard as non-essential services.

Four days of snow has thawed and frozen over and over again. The search for a safe path on fresh snow has resulted is a dimpled surface rather like a golf ball made of glass. It’s easier to walk in the troughs made by car tyres. At the local corner-shop an Irish man tells me he fell on his arse twice on his way there. I think the hangover that forced him out in this weather may have had something to do with it as I wish him a safe journey home with his bottle of Grouse Whisky.

There was a day when people would clear their own paths up to their neighbour’s boundary and they would do likewise. In such a way whole streets would be cleared. On the other side of the road a mother starts laughing exaggeratedly to stop her toddler, who has just fallen on the ice, from crying. Round here it is better to be tough. As my mate John says, “sympathy is somewhere between sex and syphilis.” I don’t think anyone round here will be dreaming of a White Christmas for years to come. Mind you, for the New Year I could easily fall for a young Raquel Welch in her furry bikini.

harsh night –
a beer-can nose
on the snowman

winter dusk

2010-01-18T12:16:00.004Z

Rules of Engagement

2010-01-18T07:02:00.001Z

Soundtrack for the Single Life

2010-01-18T06:43:00.006Z

winter sun

2010-01-18T05:50:00.001Z

garbage day

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