Our new Shahai course Shahai – Words in a Landscape will start in February 2022, and will be open for bookings shortly.

Shahai is a less familiar term than haiga – the traditional pairing of a haiku with a picture. Shahai is a haiga where the picture is a photographic image.

On Call of the Page courses, participants may choose to make their shahai with tanka instead of haiku or senryu.

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I've done Shahai at Call of the Page before. Will it be exactly the same?

This is a new course, with an emphasis on landscape, and poetry added with graphic text.

Do I need to be able to log on at a particular time?

The sessions run in participants’ own time, and they are reminded when it's time to submit an assignment or there is feedback to view.

Can I use my phone camera for this course?

We have had people use smartphone cameras for Shahai previously, but a separate camera is recommended. One immediate advantage is that you can frame the picture more easily and flexibly on a dedicated camera with a zoom.

I don’t have any experience of adding text to photographs, does this matter?

There are ways of adding text without any special software, and there will be advice and guidance on this.