Month: June 2016

Australians featuring in “re: Virals” once again

A regular weekly winner of the “re” Virals” feature on The Haiku Foundation website, Jo McInerney has been successful once more.

Following her response to a haiku by Gary Hotham (‘evening loon call’), Jo has chosen a poem by a fellow Australian haiku poet – Ron C. Moss – for discussion in this week’s upcoming posting of “re: Virals”:

on wet sand
the crab’s skeleton
reaches out to sea

– from ‘Last visit’ (2002)

With further details provided below, readers are encouraged to respond, with guidelines to be found at this link:

http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2016/06/03/revirals-38/

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Report on Bindii Meeting 4 June

Bindii Japanese Genre Poetry Group met on Saturday 4th June 2016 from 12 to 2pm at the Box Factory.

Present: Members Sara Abend-Sims, Lyn Arden, Lee Bentley, Dawn Colsey, Margaret Dingle, Julia Wakefield-Houghton.
Welcome: to new prospective member Pauline Smith.

Informal presentations on the subject of haibun were made by Lyn and Julia. We all read out haibun from examples found in various publications by members, and then workshopped some by Sara, Julia, Lyn, and haiku by Pauline, Margaret and Dawn.

The meeting closed at 2pm.
Next meeting: Saturday 6th August at 12 for 12.30.

Report by Dawn Colsey

http://haiku-bindii.blogspot.com.au/

 

Review of ‘Windfall’ in ‘A Hundred Gourds’ 5.3

Included in the Expositions section of the final edition of A Hundred Gourds – just released – is a review of Windfall 4, written by Australian haiku poet Jo McInerney, who is becoming increasingly respected as a commentator on haiku.

Through accessing the following link, readers will be able to appreciate Jo’s response to the latest edition of Windfall, an annual selection of Australian haiku edited by Beverley George and published by Peter Macrow’s Blue Giraffe Press:

http://www.ahundredgourds.com/

‘A Hundred Gourds’ 5.3 released – Lorin Ford

The 19th issue of A Hundred Gourds, a quarterly journal of haiku, haibun, haiga, tanka and renku poetry, is now available. This June 2016 issue is our final issue. All issues of A Hundred Gourds will remain available for the foreseeable future and we hope readers will continue to find them useful resources. We thank all of our contributors for the wonderful work AHG has been able to publish.

http://www.ahundredgourds.com/

As well as our Haiku, Haibun, Haiga, Tanka and Expositions sections, AHG 5:3 presents two Features, plus a range of Expositions: further details can be found below.

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The Betty Drevniok Award 2016 Results

First prize – Ruth Powell, Prince George, BC, Canada
Second prize – Owen Bullock, Canberra, Australia
Third prize – Liz Fenn, Wellsville, NY, USA
Honourable Mentions – Rodney Williams, Trafalgar, Australia

See Australian haiku below, along with full results (and judge Tom Clausen’s comments) at this link:

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