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.
If you would like to receive occasional email newsletters from us, you can subscribe at Newsletter Sign-Up.
Online courses
Brand New Courses!
We have some brand new courses! Booking is open for:
Tiny Haibun - creating work in the popular very short format of up to 130 words. Starts 22nd January 2026.
Please click Tiny Haibun for more info and booking.
Haiku Playback - where feedback on the group's haiku is sent in video form. Starts 6th January 2026.
Please click Haiku Playback for more info and booking.
Tanka Playback - another form really suited to critique by video. Starts 8th January 2026.
Please click Tanka Playback for more info and booking.
Autumn/Fall 2025 courses
Our courses starting in September are now fully sold out. Thank you so much for your support!
Please come back next week or sign up to our newsletter for news of the next ones.
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)
He is the author of various collections and pamphlets:
Does Fish-God Know (YTBN Press 2012)
Moonlighting (British Haiku Society Intimations Pamphlet Series 1996)
Sundog Haiku Journal: an Australian Year (Sunfast Press 1997)
The In-Between Season (With Words Pamphlet Series 2012)
Comfort of Crows (Alan Summers & Hifsa Ashraf) Velvet Dusk Publishing (2019)
Glint pub. Proletaria politics philosophy phenomena (February 2020)
Forbidden Syllables (Bones Library May 2020)
The Pan Haiku Review
Submissions open for all of October!
Pan Haiku Review issue 6
2025 Autumn/Winter Edition (PHR6)
This is a haiku only special edition
Submissions: October 1st through to 31st 2025
Send: 1 or 2 haiku of any style or approach.
Submission email address:
panhaikureview [at] gmail [dot] com
PHR6 will embrace many approaches to haiku though mindful of syntax, diction, lyrical line, and prosody:
monostich
duostich
tristich
tetrastich
pentastich
This is where a 575 haiku, a monostich haiku, to 4-lines, and even five lines somehow can co-habit in this issue!
Visitor Counter
Print