wet spring –
in a box by the fire
a small bleat
Sandra Simpson
Month: November 2019
Cloudcatchers Spring Ginko # 55
Alstonville
Thursday 14th November 2019
As with so many fellow poets around Australia, Cloudcatchers, on the Far North Coast of NSW, have been experiencing the trauma and uncertainty of the drastic bushfire situation. Although we are thankful that none has been personally damaged, some have relatives fighting fires, or are housing valuables of friends in danger. Smoke haze has been intense, and the sun, in a uniformly grey sky, was witnessed as a vague fiery red ball (even safe for the eye to focus), as it slipped down at dusk.
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Book of the Week – News Flash
It’s nice to look back on The First Australian Haiku Anthology (eds Janice Bostok and John Bird). Thanks to The Haiku Foundation for making it available in their digital library and to Garry Eaton for featuring it this week.
Final Call for Submissions from Sydney and Neighbouring NSW Poets
Gordon Young is a British artist who has been commissioned to work in Sydney’s Inner West. His works are often in public places, sometimes on a large scale and usually based upon text. www.gordonyoung.net.
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Perth WA Event Cancellation
The haiku event previously scheduled for Tuesday 12th November at the State Library in Perth WA has been cancelled. It will be rescheduled for another day on a weekend date yet to be announced. Apologies for any inconvenience.
Maureen Sexton
Paperbark Ginko
Wednesday 16th October, 2019
One fine spring day…
On a fine spring day, warm with a cool breeze and blue skies sporting a few white clouds, five haiku enthusiasts from Paperbark Haiku: Melissa Moffat, Elizabeth Nicholls, Rose van Son, Barry Sanbrook and Maureen Sexton, met for a ginko and to discuss the intricacies and simplicities of haiku, in the Meeting Room at the Dome Café, Maylands, WA.
Members’ News, October 2019
New Zealand Featured Haiku Commentary
For some time we have been featuring commentary about Australian haiku. You may have noticed we have recently have extended an invitation to New Zealand haiku poets, our neighbours across the Tasman Sea, to contribute to the AHS website, with commentaries about New Zealand haiku. These haiku and their commentaries offer a uniquely New Zealand perspective on life and on the landscape. We trust you will find them instructive and enjoyable.
Vanessa Proctor
Australian Haiku Society 