In the latest weekly posting of the ‘re:Virals’ segment on The Haiku Foundation’s website, Australian haiku poet Jo McInerney features once again, this time through her response to the following haiku:
dry wheat grass . . .
the whiteness of
a child dying
— Robert D. Wilson, ‘A Lousy Mirror’ (2011)
As well as being reproduced here in full, below, Jo’s response can be accessed at the following link:
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Australian poet Simon Hanson has had one of his poems voted as the best haiku for the year in the Shamrock Haiku Journal Readers’ Choice Awards 2015, as just published online in Shamrock No. 33 –
window ice
the garden thaws
in sparkles
– Simon Hanson
Full details about the 2015 Shamrock Readers’ Choice Awards can be accessed through the Shamrock website:
http://shamrockhaiku.webs.com/currentissue.htm
The work of a range of other Australian haiku poets has likewise been recognised in Shamrock No. 33, especially within the IHS International Haiku Competition Results 2015, as found below, but also through this link:
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The editors are seeking to include haiku from poets worldwide.
Representation is open to any poet who has a group of previously published haiku.
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Conducted in Croatia, the Blood Donation Haiku Contest resulted in the following Australian poets having their entries recognised as Commended:
down the highway
blood cells with smiley faces
the Red Cross van
Simon Hanson
bloodline . . .
the two of us exchanging
heartbeats
Cynthia Rowe
Australian poet Simon Hanson has had one of his poems voted as the best haiku for the year in the Shamrock Haiku Journal Readers’ Choice Awards 2015, as just published online in Shamrock No. 33 –
window ice
the garden thaws
in sparkles
– Simon Hanson
Full details about the 2015 Shamrock Readers’ Choice Awards can be accessed through the Shamrock website:
http://shamrockhaiku.webs.com/currentissue.htm
The work of a range of other Australian haiku poets has likewise been recognised in Shamrock No. 33, especially within the IHS International Haiku Competition Results 2015, as found below, but also through this link:
http://irishhaiku.webs.com/haikucompetition.htm
Presented in alphabetical order, the following poems by Australian haiku poets gained Honourable Mentions in last year’s Irish Haiku Society haiku contest, as recently published in Shamrock Haiku Journal No. 33:
thunderheads
a cowrie’s mantle
purple-flushed
– Marietta McGregor
empty ocean
the shearwater’s belly
catches the sun
– Greg Piko
winter’s afternoon
a golden pheasant weaves
through bamboo
– Cynthia Rowe
sunset valley
a line of merinos
melds into the gold
– Barbara A. Taylor
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