Day: July 31, 2016

Victorian haiku poet Robyn Cairns held a very successful launch for her new chapbook In Transit (Ginninderra Press) at the Dancing Dog Café in Footscray – in the heart of Melbourne’s industrial west – on Sunday, 17 July.

As diverse as it was engaging, the launch featured Robyn’s readings of her poetry, as well as musical interpretations of her poems on clarinet, all enhanced by haiga she has likewise created.
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Seventeen Australian haiku poets have had their work included in results from the Eighth Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest.

Full results – as released in July – can be viewed through this link:

http://samidare.jp/basho/box/8th%20ybmm%20english%20haiku%20contest.pdf
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