Month: March 2022

Echidna Tracks Issue 9 Submission Reminder

Issue 9 of Echidna Tracks: Australian Haiku: will focus on the theme of Journeys. These may relate to journeys near and far, within and without. They might pertain to geographical travels, trips abroad, down memory lane or into interesting reaches of mind and imagination. They might be shared or personal, brief or lifelong. Share the sights, sounds and scents… stir our thoughts and feelings, take us somewhere intriguing— move us, because the journey has been, or is, a moving one for you…

The submission period for Issue 9 will be open throughout April 2022. Please carefully read the guidelines on the Submissions page and submit your haiku via the Submissions Form.

Previous issues can be accessed through the Echidna Tracks website.

The HSA Nicholas Virgilio Memorial Award

The HSA Nicholas Virgilio
Memorial Award
DEADLINE EXTENDED to April 3rd (US date)

Teachers, parents, young poets: You still have time to enter the 33nd Annual Nicholas Virgilio Haiku and Senryu Competition for Grades 7-12.

Deadline: In hand online by April 3, 2022. 

Eligibility: Any student in grades 7 through 12 enrolled in school as of September 2021 may enter. 

Regulations: Submit up to three haiku/senryu per student. 

For full details: check the HSA website:

Chuck Brickley
2nd Vice President
Haiku Society of America

www.chuckbrickley.com

from the open doorway – Book Launch

You’re invited!

To my book launch! Haiku and stories and beautiful images…

from the open doorway

Where: Adachi Park in the Japanese Pavilion there, just past the children’s playground, Great Eastern Highway, Belmont (closest corner Abernathy Road) Perth, Western Australia

When: March 30, 2022. 2 pm

Would love to see you there!

Best, Rose

“Rose takes perception and memory, mind and heart to capture a particular moment…” Coral Carter

White Pebbles, Autumn 2022

March 2022

Despite rain making driving difficult for the majority of members who travel long distances, seven of us and a welcome return visitor met up to greet each other cheerfully at Gosford/Edogawa Commemorative Gardens and Regional Gallery on March 19th. How good it was to be together in person.  Present were Marilyn Humbert, Samantha Hyde, Gwen Bitti, Gail Hennessy, Maire Glacken, Colleen Keating and Beverley George, and guest Michael Thorley. Unfortunately Kent Robinson was unable to join us this time and we very much look forward to seeing him in June.

It was an individual choice whether to ginko in the garden or the gallery and before too long we had clustered at the round table in our quiet meeting room. And here we are.

left to right: Michael, Beverley, Colleen, Marilyn, Samantha, Gwen, Gail, Maire

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HSA Nicholas Virgilio Memorial Award

Teachers, parents, young poets: You still have time to enter the 33nd Annual Nicholas Virgilio Haiku and Senryu Competition for Grades 7-12.

Deadline: In hand by March 21, 2022 (US Date) [apologies for late notice]

Entries received after that date will not be accepted. 

Eligibility: Any student in grades 7 through 12 enrolled in school as of

September 2021 may enter. 

Regulations: Submit up to three haiku/senryu per student. 

For full details: check the HSA website:

Report on Bindii meeting 6.02.22

Julia, Stella, Steve, Lynette, Maeve and Kaarin met together on Zoom. We discussed the possibility of attending the upcoming Zoom meeting on International Haiku Day, April 17.

As previously arranged, we all brought examples of classic haiku and/or some of our favourites from the Snapshot Press collections. We also attempted our own haiku that evoked similar moods to the examples. Steve began with a haiku by Boncho, a student of Basho.

the dyeing tubs
dripping ceased
tree cricket

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