Leading Australian haiku poet Ron C. Moss has won the prestigious Heron’s Nest Readers’ Choice Award for 2014 for the following haiku (included in the December issue):
old horses
endless days of rain
in their eyes
This haiku received 25 nominations, totalling 188 points.
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Ron C. Moss’ collection of prize-winning haiku The Bone Carver will be launched by Beverley George (former President of the Australian Haiku Society) on Friday, February 20.
To commence at 5.30 p.m., the launch will take place at Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts (Ground Floor, 91 Murray Street, Hobart).
RSVP to Ron C. Moss, ronmoss8@gmail.com
Signed copies of The Bone Carver are available by mail by contacting this address.
Following the launch of Ron’s book, Robyn Mathison will also launch Windfall: Australian Haiku, Issue 3, edited by Beverley George and published by Peter Macrow through Blue Giraffe Press.
Supporters of Australian haiku in a position to do so are strongly encouraged to attend
The issue features the work of 53 Australian poets and is published by Peter Macrow’s Blue Giraffe Press, edited by Beverley George, with a cover design by Ron C Moss.
The annual submission window for Windfall is July only.
Send up to six haiku on an Australian theme to beverleygeorge@idx.com.au
For subscriptions and all other business, write with an SSAE to the publisher:
Peter Macrow
6/16 Osborne Street
Sandy Bay Tasmania 7005
http://shamrockhaiku.webs.com/currentissue.htm
It has a big selection of English-language haiku from all over the world, plus translated haiku (from Belorussian), as well as two haibun.
It also announces the winners of Shamrock Readers’ Choice Award for the best haiku and senryu published in Shamrock in 2014.
Many thanks to all contributors. Hopefully readers will enjoy this latest edition.
Editor
Shamrock
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Australian haiku poet Simon Hanson has won second place in the Golden Triangle Haiku Contest in the United States with the following haiku:
midnight snow
whispers of light
in the darkness
The competition was winter-themed. Sixty poems were chosen for display in flower beds along the streets of Washington DC during the American winter.
Simon was also awarded an honourable mention and given runner-up for three other haiku in this contest.
Bindii Meeting: 7 February 2015 was held at the Box Factory, Adelaide from 12 pm – 2 pm.
The meeting, chaired by Lee Bentley, concentrated on organizational details for the launch of our new anthology: Haiku Bindii: Willow Light. The anthology will be launched on Saturday 25 April 2015 at the Box Factory Community Centre.
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