Start Date: Tuesday 9th January 2024

End Date:  Tuesday 16th April 2024

Level: This is an advanced course, suitable for writers who are already intermediate-level or above in writing three-line haiku. If you are relatively new to haiku, we recommend taking one of our regular haiku courses first, to get the full benefit from this one. In the meantime, our advice is to keep reading haiku!

No. of Assignments and Feedback: 5

Group Size:  up to 5 FULLY BOOKED

Course Description:

Even more minimalist than haiku, the "monoku" is a poem in one short line. They’ve become increasingly popular and more widely published in journals and anthologies.

So if a single short line is the shape of monoku, what is the substance of this tiny haiku derivative?

This course will encourage you to consider what a monoku is, for yourself as a writer, and will give deep feedback on the poems you write over five assignments.

The tutor is award-winning and widely published monoku writer, Alan Summers. At the end of the course, you will have ten monoku written over five submissions, with lots of notes for further ideas for monoku-writing.

As with most of our online courses, participants will be sent the feedback on everyone’s work, as well as their own, in a shared learning experience.

Cost: £210 (approximately US$260)

Early Bird Cost: £195 (approximately US$241) if booking by the end of 2nd January 2024

What our students say about this course....

This has been a terrific journey. Thank you all for sharing your wonderful monoku. I enjoyed reading and learning from everyone’s work.Thank you, Alan, for your expansive commentaries. So much to think about! A shout out to Karen and Alison, too!

Thanks to all for making this course fascinating, enlightening and entertaining! I have enjoyed everyone's work. This is such an interesting genre, to me. So much said in so few words - it really is an art form, isn't it? You have all submitted excellent monokus and I have learned from everyone. Thanks again, Alan, for a wonderful course. Your assignment material is fabulous (Articulation of the Single Line Haiku). I learned so much.  And thanks Karen, for the inspiring prompts - I always love your prompts!!!

Thank You Alan for another amazing course. Your in-depth and extensive review of our work was phenomenal (as usual) and I really enjoyed this course. Monoku is such an interesting genre. I will continue writing these one-liners in the future.
Leslie (2024)

I have really enjoyed sharing this journey of discovery with you all.

Thank you, Alan, Karen, and Alison! I’ve learned so much in this course and appreciate its design and content. Alan’s comments are transformative and motivating, and I’ll continue to ponder them as well as the many examples and links he's provided.  This is my second Call of the Page experience, and its influence on my writing and knowledge of haiku (and its possibilities) has been enormous. I'm really grateful to have taken part.

Dear fellow writers:
 I have learned so much from this class. Not just from commentary on my writing but also from reading your poems and Alan's comments. Congratulations to everyone! I think I still need a lot of practice but at least I don't cringe as much as I try to write a monoku. Best to all of you!
 Alan, Karen and Alison....thank you for providing such a wonderful class. I will refer back to the lessons and fly with what I've heard here. I am on the waiting list for the haibun class and look forward to it.

Lafcadio (2023)

This has been a splendid course. To my classmates, I say "thank you" for sharing your amazing writing. I loved every one of your monokus and learned a great deal from each of you! I find that I love this genre, which is a surprise to me, as I thought it wouldn't be for me. Now I know that it is. I hope to take another  monoku course from you in future, Alan. Thank you for your brilliant suggestions and in-depth attention to all our work. You are an amazing poet and teacher. Thanks, Karen, for the fabulous prompts, and Alan for your "Travelling the single line of haiku" handouts, and Alison, for keeping it all going for us all.

Leslie (2023)

I am thankful to have been privileged to read everyone's work and to also to peek in and see some of your process. It is helpful to see how others go about creating their poems. Thanks to Alison for reminding me about a missed due date, to Karen for the wonderful prompts, and Alan for all the helpful comments he has made regarding my poems. This has been a wonderful experience and I intend in the future to take the shahai course.

Anette (2023)

Thank you to all my classmates on the course. It has been a pleasure to read your work....
And of course thank you to Alison, Karen and Alan... I've really enjoyed the course and it's kept my brain ticking!
Sam (2023)

I have really enjoyed this class and I loved the work, and learned a lot from each participant ! ( As well as from you, Alan!) I definitely have a better grasp on reading and writing one line haiku.  Thank you all and much luck in your writing endeavors!!!

Colette (2023)

This has been an amazing opportunity to learn from all of you and to share and enjoy your poems; always a different perspective which I seriously value. Thank you! Alan your essays are marvels which I have kept to reread!

Lynne (2023)

Thank you Alan, Karen and Alison for running an absolutely fascinating course. I have frequently been outside my comfort zone, but it has all been worthwhile thanks to Alan’s incisive and encouraging feedback. I have also really enjoyed reading all the excellent contributions from my fellow poets. Many thanks for sharing your poems and life experiences.

Perhaps most of all, I have learnt to appreciate how difficult it is to compose a good one-line haiku which has increased my admiration and respect for those very talented poets who regularly produce monoku of a high standard. I am so looking forward to reading the inaugural issue of the Pan Haiku Review!

Nick (2023)