Month: August 2025

Cloudcatchers’ Winter Ginko No. 78

Piccabeen Park, Bangalow, NSW

Cloudcatchers held the winter ginko at Piccabeen Park, at Bangalow, on the far north coast of NSW, on Thursday 14th August.  The group has held many ginko here over the years, but this title for the park is new – now named for the palm species local to the area. One haiku reported an old rope dangling over the creek, waiting for another summer, another commented on all the toddlers taking over a heritage park.

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Applications Now Open for Three AHS Mentorships

The Australian Haiku Society (AHS) is excited to be offering three mentorships as a trial programme from September this year. This is a new initiative of the AHS and the trial will help us to develop an even more substantial mentorship programme in the future.

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Haiku Poetry Workshop Opportunity, Central Coast, NSW, 23/08/2025

Vanessa Proctor will be facilitating a Haiku Poetry Workshop for Wyong Writers Group this coming Saturday, 23rd August.

  • Time: 1:15 for 1:30pm start  
  • Duration: 2 hours
  • Venue: Woodbury Park off Woodbury Park Drive, Mardi, NSW 2259
  • Cost Members $10.00  Visitors  $12.00 prepaid before 18/08/2025
  • Includes afternoon tea/coffee
  • Please bring writing paper and pen
  • For more details and to confirm attendance (limited spaces) email glenndc@ozemail.com.au

For more information about the club visit www.wyongwriters.org

Featured Haiku – Under the Same Moon: The Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology

This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is Chris Lynch.

missing you cabin crew disarm doors

sitting outside the meditation hall winter sun

possum pauses on the powerline lightning flash

silent night the fridge hum changes pitch

If you are interested in purchasing a copy of the anthology, please contact the secretary of the AHS.

Report on the Fringe Myrtles Meeting July, 2025

The Fringe Myrtles devoted our most recent meeting to a discussion about the haiku of Santōka Taneda, regarded as one of the leading figures of free-form haiku in Japan during the early 20th century. Our meeting was held in a hybrid fashion (with mixed success) some of the group meeting face-to-face at the Athenaeum Theatre and others joining online.

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