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Alan Summers

		Director of With Words; haiku writer; children's fiction Male 87 years old United Kingdom Last Login: 10/29/2009
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Alan's Interests

General	CURRENT MOON moon phase
Music	Sigmatropic; Anil & Beth; Gorillaz; Kizzy Morrell; and Amy Winehouse, to name a few! Just check my Myspace friends for some bands both local, national and international.
Movies	Foreign films; anything black & white; anime; good SF films; trashy SF films as long as they have less than 3 stars on the rating system, in fact no stars is even better. Occasional Hollywood type films of course, but what really grabs me is any interesting independent film-making. Take for instance the mesmerisingly breaktaking film Kelling Brae directed by Alan Miller: Kelling Brae
Television	Heroes.
Books	Carol Ann Duffy's 'Rapture' is a real must for anyone romantic, or anyone who isn't a romantic. Anything by Bill Higginson: check his sites on the haiku links at Area 17.
Heroes	Most of them are dead, but I hear a few live ones have been allowed to live by the bureaucrats, but their time is runnin' out.

Alan's Details

Status:	In a Relationship
Body type:	7' 6"
Zodiac Sign:	Virgo
Occupation:	Many things, some even pay.

Alan Renga verse email: 1000verses@withwords.org.uk Posted at 1:08 PM Oct 27
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The With Words International Online Haiku Competition 2008 (view more)

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Alan's Blurbs

About me:
Check out my Area 17 blog:
Area 17

Or to read my haiku:
With Words & haiku

Check out The With Words International Online Haiku Competition 2008: Haiku Competition

Or my haiku bulletin page (includes CV) Haiku Bulletin page & CV

Check out: The Poetic Image: Haiku and Photography

Check out THE Yorkshire Guide to what's on!

The Yorkshire Guide to What's on!

Who I'd like to meet:
Real people who are bigger than the boxes that society tries to put us in, and who stay genuine inside and outside their jobs or whatever else they do. It isn't just writers, poets, and creative artists, who make this world worth visiting, but they sure do help.

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Salt Publishing

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We Are Poets! Performance Poetry for Children	Oct 29 2009 8:04 PM
Ash (TOUR BUILDING) Mandrake	Oct 11 2009 7:38 PM Enjoying your site. Playing @ The Royal Oak (Windsor Bridge Bath) on Fri 23rd Oct 2009 This is to let you know what's in store: Hope you enjoy it. Ash :o)
Poppy and Friends	Sep 23 2009 1:47 PM POPPY AND FRIENDS ALBUM LAUNCH - 10TH OCT - BONEYARD BAR - BRISTOL BE LOVELY TO SEE YOU THERE XXX
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WritingRaw.com	Jul 7 2009 10:47 AM All of us here at Writing Raw would like to thank you for becoming our friend. WritingRaw.com is a FREE online ezine featuring all original works ranging from short stories, poetry collections, serialized books, and our exclusive 7 Question Interview (featuring over 50 NY Times and award winning authors, literary agents, and publishers). In this world of disappearing literary magazines, WritingRaw.com is providing the blank pages for writers to fill. For more information, visit us at www.WritingRaw.com Follow the link to read the pdf version of: Shame: A Novelette, by R. E. Heinrich: http://writingraw.com/shame%20Novelette.pdf
POET: Patagonia Lost... Sylvia	Jun 7 2009 5:23 PM This comment was sent by your friend via the Green Spot app. To block this app and all communications from it, click Here. ------------------------------------------- .. Hey Alan, I left you a gift. Click and pick it up.
Frank Burton	May 14 2009 10:21 AM Alright, Just wanted to let you know, my experimental crime novella, “About Someone” is available to read for free on my website. Just click here. Read it. It’s brilliant. Frank
Listening In	Apr 12 2009 6:54 AM Happy Easter, Alan Kevin
POET: Patagonia Lost... Sylvia	Apr 3 2009 4:12 PM Hi Alan! Thank you for being my new poet friend. I live far away in Buenos Aires, so I'm terribly envious of all these events going on in the U.K. Haven't been there since 1999... Still, with your encouragement I might post some of my attempts at Haiku (wherever it is one posts them...). I get lost on Facebook, sorry! Sylvia
Deborah Harvey	Apr 3 2009 3:43 PM Hi Alan, I'm not on Facebook - I have no friends who indulge so would be the most publicly lonely person in the world there. Plus, I probably waste too much time on MySpace as it is ... I had you in my diary for yesterday but went out and bought a border collie puppy instead, so had to stay in with the new incumbent. Not sure if I can get away Easter Monday but please do keep me informed of events; I'm sure I'll get to one at some point this spring. Thanks for remembering me, Deb XX
Deborah Harvey	Mar 16 2009 8:30 PM Thanks for letting me know about the renga event, Alan. I love the Central Library - one of my favourite buildings! Will try to get down. Deb XX
Allen Online Now!	Mar 16 2009 1:00 PM sounds great my poetry teachers were total slugs and sleazoids; so unfortunately that college class was less than encouraging though hoping and know will do some amazing classes and workshops at Victoria Writers Centre this year i have written so much and relay focused on training my pen and getting relaly amzing feedback from some publishers- but early days that sounds like an awesome charity as an x tESOL teacher literacy is my interest area worked with the slum kids in Bangkok years back
Allen Online Now!	Mar 2 2009 11:34 PM hi hows things we have the same name different spelling though
Allen Online Now!	Mar 2 2009 1:21 AM thanks for the add Alan have subscribed to your blog welcome to join mine- fellow poet Hope having a great day?
Deborah Harvey	Mar 1 2009 4:51 PM Thanks for making space for me - and for all the information about renga. I don't believe we have met, but I'll look out for you at future events. Deb XX
Venus Eleven	Jan 23 2009 9:13 AM Hi Alan, You are cordially invited to the launch party for my novel The Hal X Syndrome at Topping & Co, Bath, 6 Feb, 7.15 for 7.30pm. Hope to see you there! Tracey
Futaro	Jan 19 2009 9:29 AM Thanks for the request. the plum blossoming into the cold wind; foretelling spring
Venus Eleven	Jan 12 2009 4:01 PM Hi Alan, It took me a while to recover from the Uffizzi too! Botticelli rocks the planet. Thanks for being a pal, Tracey
Si Blakemore	Jan 10 2009 6:18 PM Hi. I've now completed the third part of my “Super Glue for the Broken Hearted” trilogy so here it is and I hope you can take something from it! Parts 1 and 2 (“She Breathes” and “She Frees”) are on my blog and if I've known you a while they may be on your comments page from last year too. Many thanks for the friendship and support and have a great day! ~ Si =) HE BLEEDS Love is like no-one else you ever met. His face obscured like a diamond of light behind white shadows. You laugh and sob in his presence, unable to comprehend his majestic beauty. He takes your hand and leads you through worlds of immeasurable splendour, devastating loss, ravishing beauty and unspeakable pain. When darkness surrounds, you lose all sight of him and scream out in terror like a child rejected by it's parent. But in time you realise that he has let go of your hand because he now carries you in his arms. He stands in the gap between you and everything that would harm you. He negotiates for you, he fights on your behalf. He absorbs all pain, darkness, heartache, fear, loss, grief, sadness, evil, torture and death. He roars like a lion and bleats like a lamb. He lives in serenity, creates courage and is the foundation of all wisdom. He is the starving child in Africa, the destroyed family of Iraq. He is the bedraggled alcoholic on the street corner. He is the married executive on his way to the whore house. The terrified mother with a dying child. He is the baby killed at the hands of those who should have protected him and also the parents who did that. He is black, white, light and dark. He stands outside of time and towers over everything else the universe has ever known. But in all strength, he is weak and utterly defenceless. He steps in front of you. He cries. He reaches out his arms, and enveloping your soul into his heart, He drops his head and he dies.
Rhizomaniac	Dec 24 2008 9:36 AM you a sitting room pretty danger the heart more or less a real one
bruce dorlova	Dec 8 2008 8:26 AM flotilla of paper boats brave little sailors on a katsushika sea -o0o- composing haiku your sea beneath me we make such tiny movements -o0o- adrift on an endless sea i am without fear the storms bring only blue skies
Orchid-Star	Dec 7 2008 4:18 PM
Chandra Moon	Nov 12 2008 11:05 PM Would be lovely if you can make it! Print the picture for free entry up to 9pm!
Gologan	Nov 6 2008 9:19 PM ADVICE Someone dancing inside us has learned only a few steps: the “Do-Your-Work” in 4/4 time, and the ”What-Do-You-Expect” waltz. He hasn’t noticed yet the woman standing away from the lamp, the one with black eyes who knows the rumba and strange steps in jumpy rhythms from the mountains of Bulgaria. If they dance together, something unexpected will happen. If they don’t, the next world will be a lot like this one. Bill Holm :)

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