December 2011:
From volume 3, Issue 3, Notes from the Gean will be presented in a flip magazine format. We hope that you enjoy the new style and find it easy to navigate. The thinking behind this is simple, that our readers will now be able to turn the pages just like in a standard magazine and see the works presented in the best possible light that current software allows. This format also allows us to layout our content in a different fashion from other online magazines, which usually follow a list style, and should encourage our readers to read through Notes from the Gean, and keep coming back to re-read it.
Navigation is simple; but if you have any problems there are instructions on the top right hand corner of the YUDU Carbon Neutral page. We sincerely hope you will love what we believe to be the next stage for online haikai journals.
Colin Stewart Jones
Editor-in-Chief
Notes from the Gean
New Features
Dear Readers,
As part of Notes from the Gean’s ongoing commitment to hear your “voices” and “the three Es” of our mission we have introduced some new features: “The Dreaming Room”, whereby our readers can let us know, in 300-500 words, how they were impacted by a haikai poem (not necessarily from NFTG); and “Haiku Matters”, a series of 2000 word essays, where an area of haikai poetry is explored and expounded on.
We have also committed ourselves to bringing you more interviews where we get to the personality behind the poet as well as their thoughts on haikai related matters. Now that we will be regularly archived by The British Library we believe that this will be of paramount importance for future writers and researchers when the record of the first century of English Language Haiku is properly chronicled and put into historical context.
September, 2011
Submissions Policy Change
Dear Readers
In our mission statement Notes from the Gean encourages experimentation and because of this it is incumbent upon us that we must also be forward thinking and keep up with modern methods of communication. Therefore, we have changed our submissions policy to reflect this.
At Notes from the Gean we believe that there is much poetry posted on social networking sites, such as Facebook and Twitter etc, that is worthy of publishing. Including such works, that could easily be missed or lost due to the volume of posts on such sites, in a specialist magazine setting ensures that they are properly presented and kept for posterity.
As poetry on social networks and blog's is not representative of an editor's selection we, therefore, deem such works as unpublished. Though we now consider such works to be unpublished we still ask that they not be under consideration elsewhere and that you also bear in mind that each work will still have to undergo the same rigorous selection process, by our editors, as any other submission would.
Richard Krawiec, USA will be accepting submissions for Haibun from September 15th
Submissions for the December issue, close on November 7th.
Submissions for the December issue should be sent to: Please see the submissions tab.