Day: May 22, 2024

May 2024 News

President’s greeting

It was great to see so many opportunities for poets to connect with each other and the wider community in the last month as International Haiku Poetry Day was marked in various ways around 17th April. In the Haiku Groups’ Zoom meeting hosted by AHS, thirty poems were read, one each composed by poets from five groups based in different parts of the country: Fringe Myrtles (Melbourne), Paperbark Haiku (Perth), Bindii Japanese Genre Poetry Group (Adelaide & online), Cloudcatchers (NSW North Coast) and Illawong Haiku Group (Sydney). Thanks to all the poets who contributed to the success of the gathering.

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Cloudcatchers Ginko No. 73

Thursday 9 May 2024
Bullwinkle Park, Alstonville

Amid all that rainy period the Cloudcatchers held Ginko No.73 in Bullwinkle Park at Alstonviille, named for a pioneering resident of this district. Through this area runs McGuire’s Creek in which platypuses still dwell, along with a few turtles. As we gathered mid-morning in intermittent drizzle, there was no hope of a sighting that day, but it is always a comfort to know that they are there.

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