Welcome
Welcome to the Call of the Page website. We run international online courses, workshops and events with an emphasis on minimal words, and the Japanese forms haiku, senryu, tanka and haibun. If you're looking for a course we hope you enjoy exploring the tabs above.
We also offer one-to-one tutorials/mentorship with Alan Summers and publish the poetry magazine The Pan Haiku Review. Further details on each of these can be found below. And finally, we also run creative literacy and literature projects using the power of words.
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Online courses
Courses now open for booking!
Tiny Haibun - our newest haibun course, which is proving very popular, suitable for students who are already writing haiku or tanka (you might have completed one or more of our haiku or tanka courses previously, or studied one to one with Alan). Beginner and experienced haibun writers welcome. Starts 19th March 2026. Please click Tiny Haibun for more info and booking.
One-Line Haiku (Shorter) - for students who have experience of writing haiku. This is the 4-part version of our very popular 5-part course. Starts 23rd April 2026. Please click One-Line Haiku (Shorter) for more info and booking.
The Shape of Haibun - this very popular course is for students who would like experience in writing haibun/tanka prose of different lengths and shapes or haiku/tanka; and also for experienced Flash Fiction writers who would like to extend their writing to encompass poetry. Starts 5th May 2026. Please click The Shape of Haibun for more info and booking.
Haiku Across the Senses - this long-standing and popular course is a stepping point between Introducing... Haiku and the Intermediate Haiku classes, but is also a good reboot for anyone wanting to remind themselves to use all of the senses over their haiku writing. Starts 3rd September 2026. Please click Haiku Across the Senses for more info and booking.
One-to-one Tuition with Alan Summers
Alan Summers is available for one-to-ones via Zoom or through written feedback. To pay and book sessions, go to the Special Payments page. Or to find out more, go to the One-to-one Tuition page. Thank you!
Alan has been involved in haikai literature (haiku; senryu; haibun; renku/renga; haiga and shahai), and tanka, since 1993. He is a
Pushcart Prize nominated poet for both haiku and haibun, as well as Best Small Fictions nominated for haibun.
He has been a former roving Embassy of Japan ‘Japan-UK 150’ poet-in-residence, published/supported by the BBC Poetry
Season website at that time celebrating 150 years of diplomatic relations between Japan and the United Kingdom (2008-2009).
Alan also found himself filmed by NHK Television (Japan) for “Europe meets Japan - Alan's Haiku Journey” and published in Japanese newspapers:
“There are no useless words or phrases. A perfect haiku.”
Isamu Hashimoto (Japan, 2014)
Selector for The Mainichi's popular Haiku in English column
“Astonishingly moving haiku”
Yomiuri Shimbun (Japanese newspaper 2002)
New Collection!
Alan has a new collection out, and the title is taken from a haiku nominated for a Touchstone Award
(The Haiku Foundation):
The Pan Haiku Review
2025 Autumn/Winter Edition (PHR6)
The haiku only special edition
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