Haiku workshops with Jodie Hawthorne
During Tasmanian Living Writers Week, Jodie will be giving two haiku workshops and exhibiting her haiga.
Month: July 2008
haiku in India
The popularity of Haiku in India is growing rapidly
as a review by Charles Trumball of a book edited by Angelee Deodhar shows.
You will also find news of a book of haiku by children
Haiku in the Bulletin, 1899
Flannel-flow’rs dancing
To the dawn on the hill-tops…
The Vision of Spring!
Is this the first prize-winning haiku published in an Australian journal or newspaper? It appeared over the name ‘R. Crawford’ in the Bulletin’s famous Red Page on 12 August 1899 along with 13 other haiku and two haiku sequences. Crawford and his fellow poets were responding to an invitation, extended by A. G. Stephens (aka The Bookfellow), to submit ‘some haikais, which must have an Australasian reference’. Stephens offered 10s. 6d.—roughly the equivalent of a day’s wage—for the best entry received.
Stephens’ interest in the haiku form was piqued by a similar competition run in the British journal Academy and Literature. Both competitions probably stemmed from the publication in England of W. G. Aston’s History of Japanese Literature.
Perspectives on History – Haiku History 1980 –
Haiku in Australia was in the doldrums for quite a time after Janice M Bostok’s pioneering work. By the late 1980s only a few isolated poets were still engaged with haiku. All that began to change in 1988 – the year of World Expo 88 in Brisbane. The impetus came directly from Japan when Japan Airlines (JAL) decided to be a major sponsor of the Japan pavilion by sponsoring a haiku contest for children and other associated activities. This followed other successes in America and Canada. Continue reading “Perspectives on History – Haiku History 1980 –”
Haiku in the Garden
Haiku in Gosford/Edogawa Commemorative Garden, 5 July 2008
report by M L Grace
These lovely Japanese style gardens provided a perfect setting for the reading of haiku,
with last autumn leaves clinging to maples and a backdrop of silver birches overlooking a koi pond and pagoda.
Beverley George ─ President of The Australian Haiku Society (HaikuOz) and well known, widely published poet, organised the readings which were preceded by dynamic Taiko drummers who awoke the audience and provided the contrasting silence for the haiku readers.
July 02, 2008
Haiku News from Western Australia
News from Western Australia
sent by the Australian Haiku Society Regional Representative Maureen Sexton
Perth haiku poet Nicholas Barwell, has had nine haiku published on the Swan River Trust’s new River Guardians website. The River Guardian website relates to the Swan and Canning Rivers, which flow through the suburbs of Perth.
Congratulations Nicholas!
Australian Haiku Society 