Callander Haiku

Cover photo © Angela Topping
One of the latest publications from diehard press is CALLANDER HAIKU edited by Sally Evans. No it isn't a monthly calender but an anthology of haiku based on the Scottish town of Callander.

photograph © Gerald England
Many of the haiku are by poets who have attended the annual Callander Poetry Weekends hosted in September each year at the King's Bookshop.

Light in the bookshop
Sets each gilded spine aglow
against jewelled colours of hide

Angela Topping

L-R: Margaret Gillies Brown, Ian Blake, Andy Robson, Elizabeth Rimmer, Gerry Singh and his wife, Sally Evans, Colin Will, Christine England, Maureen Weldon, Sally James.
Photo © Gerald England
My own contributions are from the 2005 weekend and were published alongside reports of the event on the Poetry Scotland website. Although no longer live it can be accessed via the Internet Wayback Machine archives.

photograph © Gerald England

clack clack of hens
breeze through the garden
a poet speaks

Charlie Gracie

photograph © Gerald England

level bowling green
a perfect square -
too hot to play

Colin Will

the pavement
is at war with the trees
roots are winning

Christine England

photograph © Gerald England
CALLANDER HAIKU
ISBN 978-0946230-93-8
Price £5 (including postage) from
diehard at the Callander Press
Kings Bookshop
91-93 Main Street
Callander
FK17 8BQ

ABC Wednesday: G is forGroatsend Found Sound Poem by Gerald England

This is an illustrated version of my Groatsend Found Sound Poem written in 2004 and first published in the FIFTH INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY ON PARADOXISM (Vâlcea, Offsetcolor, 2007).

Lands End

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Grumbla

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Barripper

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Luxulyan

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Bray Shop

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Quither

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Zeal Monachorum

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Shillingford

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Stogumber

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Cowslipgreen

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Iron Acton

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Slad

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Wyre Piddle

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Quatt

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Much Wenlock

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Great Bolas

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Swettenham

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Broadbottom

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Diggle

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Friendly

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Appletreewick

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Buttertubs Pass

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Crackpot

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Booze

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Frosterley

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Muggleswick

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Ruletownhead

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Dryburgh

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Fala

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Turnhouse

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Burntisland

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Wormit

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Tigerton

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Bridge of Dye

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Cambus o' May

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Cock Bridge

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Dufftown

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Fogwatt

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Dallas

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Urray

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Fourpenny

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Doll

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Badlipster

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Slickly

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John O'Groats

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