Australian haiku poets have been strongly represented in the first digital anthology from “Wild Plum Haiku Journal”, called “Behind the Tree Line”.
Featuring 11 haiku written by 8 Australian haiku poets, “Behind the tree line” is a selection of 45 haiku chosen by Gabriel Sawicki from all poems published by the journal in 2015.
It can be accessed at this link:
https://wildplumhaiku.wordpress.com/2015/08/31/585/
In order of appearance, work by the following Australian haiku poets is featured in “Behind the Tree Line” – Simon Hanson, Quendryth Young and Myron Lysenko (each with two haiku selected); plus Duncan Richardson, Jade Pisani, Mark Miller, Marietta McGregor and Barbara A. Taylor (with Barbara also represented in the haiga section):
desert stones
slowly their shadows
change sides
– Simon Hanson
rusty leaves
my garden
falling down
– Quendryth Young
early autumn
tomatoes on the plant
still blushing
– Myron Lysenko
riverside café
reading
the flood levels
– Duncan Richardson
his anger
rose petals drop
over the fence
– Jade Pisani
summer storm
the brimming moon
in the cattle trough
– Mark Miller
one more book
for the jumble sale—
joy of sex
– Marietta McGregor
coming home
through cracked bridges
of my roots
– Barbara A. Taylor
wild wind
she asks me to take
Viagra
– Myron Lysenko
drab mudflat
a million scavenging
crabs
– Quendryth Young
just enough breeze
to move the curtain
moonlit waves
– Simon Hanson
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