In 2023, the first anthology of Australian haiku in over a decade was released. It was the largest collection of haiku by Australian poets ever assembled, containing over 160 poems by 104 poets. The Australian Haiku society is proud to showcase this anthology over the coming months as part of its featured haiku collection.
Continue reading “Featured Haiku – Under the Same Moon (Australian Haiku Anthology)”
With its first edition (from December last year) well received, Catchment – Poetry of Place will release a second issue on 21 June 2024. Again, it will publish both tanka and longer free-verse poems, showing a sense of location. Since the submission period is set to close soon — on 21 May — poets resident in Australia are encouraged to make contributions, using the following link:
https://www.bawbawartsalliance.org.au/catchment2/on-line-submissions/
Julia Wakefield, Jake Dennis, Steve Wigg, Stella Damarjati, and Lynette Arden met on Sunday, May 5, at 7 p.m. using Google Meet. Maureen Sexton, Subha Goonaratne, Ewan Rourke, and Maeve Archibald apologised. Â
We workshopped some of our haiku and discussed possible topics for future meetings. We have decided to take a closer look at some of the techniques listed in Jane Reichhold’s book, Writing and Enjoying Haiku. The list can also be found on her website here: https://www.ahapoetry.com/haiartjr.htm
Continue reading “Report on the Bindii Meeting May 5 2024”Lilly Sievers is once again collecting haiku for her ongoing column in the Urasenke Sydney quarterly magazine. She would like to express her gratitude to the many Australian Haiku Society members who have contributed to prior columns and would love to continue featuring contemporary haiku.
Continue reading “Urasenke Sydney Haiku Collaboration”You’re invited to submit your tanka in May to The United Haiku and Tanka Society (UHTS) 2024 Fleeting Words Tanka Contest. Submissions are open from 1 May to 31 May 2024. Entry is free for up to ten tanka.
The winning tanka will be featured in late June 2024 on the UHTS website along with the judges’ commentary.
For guidelines and submission details, please visit the UHTS webpage.
Meet at 10am on Friday 3rd May at Afendi’s Coffee, 162 Colin Street, West Perth, within sight of the City West station. Bring pen and paper, hat, sun protection, water, a haiku book to swap or give away and your haiku mind. After meeting we will walk a short distance to Henry Boas Gardens, write, then return to Afendi’s to review.
Contact: Coral Carter (coralacarter@gmail.com)
Submissions for Issue 13 of Echidna Tracks are open until the end of April. Please send us your best haiku. This collection is important because we aim at our regional group of haiku writers and present haiku that reflect our identity. Although we publish haiku with our distinctive flora and fauna, it is not about Australian animals. It is about our experience of living in Australia and our experience of life from our point of view. Australia is a vibrant, cosmopolitan and multicultural nation, and we strive to reflect that.
Please make submissions via our website. Submissions
The fifth Gadigal Ginko took place on the eve on International Haiku Poetry Day. Nine poets gathered outside the Art Gallery of New South Wales, in front of the new building: Gavin Austin, Gwen Bitti, Subha Goonaratne, Marilyn Humbert, Margaret Mahony, Alison Miller, Leanne Mumford, Jan O’Loughlin and Tom Staudt.
Continue reading “Report on 5th Gadigal Ginko”
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