This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is New South Wales poet, Joanne Watcyn-Jones.
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Red Room Poetry, in partnership with Sydney’s Royal Botanic Garden, is offering a Ginko Walk opportunity next Saturday 31st August 2024 as part of ‘Poetry Month’. There is a cost of $50. The Ginko Walk will be lead by award-winning poets Eileen Chong and Lulu Houdini. Further details and booking at Red Room Poetry.
Tuesday 3rd September at Hurstville Museum and Gallery, 10.30am – 12.30pm
Visitors welcome.
An initiative by Hurstville Museum and Gallery (part of Georges River Council) for August Writers Month has provided us with the opportunity to occupy part of the museum space to observe and be inspired by the current travelling exhibition 1 x 4 to write some haiku.
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What a cold winter it has been, but the Cloudcatchers held their winter ginko none-the-less, at a coastal venue – the home of one of our long-time members, Angela Smith, just south of Byron Bay on the far north coast of New South Wales. The grounds extend down a steep slope to a coastal reserve by the beach, with the sea breezes in our nostrils, and the sounds of the sea creeping into many haiku. Angela had suggested we wait for this one until winter, so all the brown snakes in the area would be asleep!
There were six of us, one an enthusiastic visitor, with two additional other members who couldn’t be present due to health restrictions joining us in thought in a ‘virtual ginko’, and contributing later to the Round Robin, which is currently underway. We lunched together at a nearby Suffolk Park venue, The Park. Another successful, stimulating and bonding haiku ginko!
Quendryth Young
(L to R) Quendryth Young, Robyn Braithwaite, Laurel Astle, Angela Smith, Lynette Holland, and (seated) Vivien Royston.
This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is New South Wales poet, Quendryth Young.
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Eucalypt: a tanka journal August eNews is now online, announcing the Distinctive Scribble Award winners from issue 36 and featuring the Endings and Beginnings tanka by contributing poets. Read August eNews here.
The submission window for issue 37 is from 1st to 30th September 2024.
Julie Thorndyke, Editor.
August 2024
Again, we gathered around an inside table @ The Oaks, the breeze still too chilly for lunch outside. Perhaps we may celebrate spring next month with a session beneath the leafy trees? Glenys Ferguson, Gregory Piko, Marietta McGregor and Jan Dobb exchanged warm greetings. This time, we missed the company of Hazel Hall and Kathy Kituai.
Continue reading “Haiku @ The Oaks, Canberra”This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is New South Wales poet, Catherine Smith.
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