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.
The new column will present Australian haiku alongside classic Japanese poems. Lilly is requesting two categories of poems: 1. seasonal haiku and 2. haiku that were inspired by Japan or a Japanese poet. For the upcoming issue, the theme of her article will be either “summer” or “Bashõ”, so poems fitting these themes would be particularly welcome by the 20th of November. Send your poems to Lilly Sievers: harp.fairy.lilly@gmail.com
The column will be an ongoing project and, as such, poems are welcome at any time. Full credit will be given authors of the poems that are selected to appear in the column. Please include first publication details if applicable.
You can browse recent issues of the magazine through the National Library of Australia’s Trove facility. For more information about the Urasenke Sydney Association, please visit their website.
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