These details are for a previous run of The Shape of Haibun, but we will be announcing a 2025 date for this course before the end of January. 

Thank you for our interest!

(Please email courses@callofthepage.org to go on the waiting list for the next run)

Start Date: Thursday 11th May 2023.    2025 dates forthcoming!

End Date: Thursday 6th July 2023

Level:  Participants should have some existing experience of writing haiku, but may be beginners, "improvers", or advanced, at haibun.

Group Size:  5   

Haibun Length:  Short to medium - up to 300 words.   

Course Description:

Participants submit one new haibun, of up to three hundred words, incorporating up to five poems, for each of three assignments over two months.  

Optional prompts are given for each assignment. Substantial written feedback is given by tutor Alan Summers to each participant, with the group receiving the feedback document by email, in a shared learning experience. 

On this course, you are also welcome to write with tanka poems in the place of haibun if you prefer.

Cost: £165 (approximately US$219).

Early Bird Cost: £155 (approximately US$206) if booking by end of 26 April 2023.

What our students say about this course:

This has been an eye opening class for me and I have really been riveted by your work.  Thank you for sharing this experience!  And of course thank you Alan and Karen for your amazing presence, even so far away across the pond!  I have learned a great deal in a short time.

Colette (2023)

Loved this course! I already want to get to the next one, feeling like I just started to get somewhere. The prompts were wonderful, made me think about different situations. It was great reading everyone's stories and tasting different styles, and Alan's feedback is priceless as usual.

Ella (2023)

My poetry has improved immensely with your assistance.

Jim (2023)

Thank you all for reading. It is truly one of the most memorable days of my life, because I finally started to comprehend.

Kati (2023)

You all write so well. I have learnt a great deal from your work.,,,.,I've loved this course and the one line haiku one too Thanks!

Tim (2023)

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