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 open for booking or coming soon!
Haiku Across the Senses
This course invites us to consider the "five senses" in-depth, and what they can bring to our haiku writing, when we consider them even before we put pen to paper. This course is suitable for poets at any level beyond beginners, but is especially good if you have been writing haiku for a while, and wish to have a bit of a reset in the advantages of thinking about the senses as you approach your work.
There are still places available on this course.
Starts 3rd September 2026. Please click Haiku Across the Senses for more info and booking.
We are currently scheduling a tranch of new courses for late 2026 and early 2027.
Please check back soon for news!
NOW FULLY BOOKED Advanced Haiku with Alan Summers - this brand new course is suitable for participants who may have done previous courses with us, such as Intermediate Haiku, One-Line Haiku, Haiku Across the Senses, or our Haibun courses, and now wish to concentrate specifically on furthering their haiku.
Starts 15th September 2026. Please click Advanced Haiku for more info and booking.
If you would like to be on the waiting list for future dates for any of our courses, please email Alison at courses@callofthepage.org.
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 For Spring!
Alan has a new collection out
A collection of one-line haiku by Alan Summers (March 2026)
Modo collection by Alan Summers (monosti[...]
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The Pan Haiku Review
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