November 2023

(In)visible Libraries event in Melbourne 30/11 – 02/12/2023

Performance artist and Fellow of the State Library of Victoria, Leisa Shelton, is working on a project for an exhibition ‘(In)visible Libraries’ that includes small hand-made books of haiku from Under the Same Moon alongside their translation into Braille. The first of these features urban haiku. Poets whose work has been selected are Olivia Ark, Gavin Austin, Dawn Bruce, Jane Gibian, Louise Hopewell, Jayashri Maniyil, Maurice Nevile and Lyn Reeves. There is a readers’ corner where people can access these books. If you are in Melbourne you may like to drop in and enjoy the poetry. For more information please visit the link below:
https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/whats-on/invisible-libraries

For more background to the project, see the ABC news story from last year.

Cloudcatchers’ Spring Ginko (No. 71)

DATE: Thursday 9 November
PLACE: Bicentennial Park, Ballina
TIME: 10 am

The weatherman had a lot of trouble deciding what our day would bring, but all was well. There were blue skies, not too hot, and a new venue to be explored at the Bicentennial Park in Ballina, with picnic facilities along with some first-growth coastal forest.

Haiku @ The Oaks, Canberra

Thursday 9 November 2023

How quickly the months come around, and here we are again @ The Oaks, this time with rain falling and puddles filling. So, an inside day it is. Just four of us to lunch—Gregory Piko, Glenys Ferguson, Marietta McGregor and Jan Dobb—our thoughts turning to missing chums, Kathy Kituai and Hazel Hall.

News for Members

melbourne launch of under the same moon

The Melbourne Launch of under the same moon: Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology will be held at the Melbourne Athenaeum Theatre Library, Saturday 11 November, 3pm-5pm. Rob Scott’s interview about the anthology, hosted by Melbourne poet, Di Cousens and broadcast on 2nd November on Radio 3CR in Melbourne, can be heard here.

Paperbark Spring Ginko, Kings Park (Karrgatup)

27 October, 2023, Perth (Boorloo)

A great turn out for a perfect spring day in Kings Park, where displays of Western Australian wild flowers were still viable despite a few non-spring-like days of heat in the previous week.

Urasenke Sydney Haiku Opportunity

Australian Haiku Poets are invited to send your poems to Lilly Sievers, who is putting together a new, regular column for the Urasenke Sydney quarterly magazine. The magazine, which has the aim of fostering cultural exchange with Japan, is distributed to members and friends of the Urasenke Sydney school of chado – the way of tea, and is also deposited in the National Library of Australia.

Fringe Myrtles Meeting

The Fringe Myrtles met at our favourite location, the Royal Botanical Gardens in Melbourne. It was the day after the referendum on the Voice to Parliament (more on that below).

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