Month: May 2025

Submissions for Catchment 4 due by 21st May

A big thank you goes out to all AHS members who have already offered contributions to the fourth edition of Catchment – Poetry of Place!
 
With submissions set to close on 21st May 2025, other Australian poets are encouraged to send in new work which shows a sense of location. 

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Results of the 3rd John Bird Dreaming Award for Haiku

Dear Members,

I am delighted to be able to announce the winners of the 3rd John Bird Dreaming Award for Haiku. The response to the competition was fantastic once again, with 260 poets submitting their haiku from all corners of the globe. I would like to extend a huge thanks to all poets for contributing their poems and look forward to receiving their entries in the years to come.

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Haiku @ The Oaks

On a sunny Canberra autumn Thursday 13th March, a smaller group of haiku poets than usual met for lunch and discussions under the trees at The Oaks Brasserie, Yarralumla. Around the table were Hazel Hall, Kathy Kituai, Greg Piko and Marietta McGregor. Glenys Ferguson and Jan Dobb were unable to attend and their enthusiastic participation was missed this time. Talk at first turned to poetry in general, with reminiscences about first moments of reading work to an audience, sometimes many years ago in individuals’ writing lives, and the feelings engendered on those occasions.

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