Members’ News – December 2025

  1. President’s Message – Reflecting on Haiku Musings
  2. Publications
    1. Dr Grant Caldwell has contributed a 20-page chapter on haiku for the De Gruyter Handbook of Poetic Forms.
    2. Soft, a book of haiku by Robyn Cairns, launched in Footscray.
  3. New group forming in Brisbane
  4. Latest Haiku String books
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Meet and Greet event in Kogarah

On Wednesday 15th October, Carol Reynolds and Margaret Mahony from Illawong Haiku Group participated in a Meet and Greet event at the Clive James Library at Kogarah. The event was initiated by Vickey Foggin, Team Leader Library Programs at Georges River Council to highlight Rivers Writers, a liaison of writing groups operating within the Georges River region.

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Cloudcatchers Spring Ginko No. 79

A rainforest Remnant, at Dalwood, in the hinterland of the far north coast
of New South Wales is one of the Cloudcatchers’ favourite venues. Six of us
gathered there on Thursday 9th October for our Spring experience, and once again walked the boardwalk through this untouched captured remnant of the past, where the Bunjalung people lived so long ago.

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Paperbark Group Spring/Kambarang Ginko report

Eight poets joined the spring ginko on 8th October 2025 in Kings Park, on a lovely sunny although chilly day. At the height of spring the park was laden with flowers. Armed with a description of the two indigenous spring seasons, and the relevance of the colour yellow, we learned we are experiencing the Noongar season of kambarang.

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Catchment – Poetry of Place : fifth edition, submissions open

The Spring-time submission period for Catchment – Poetry of Place will remain open between 21st September and 21st November, towards release of the journal’s 5th issue online on 21st December, 2025.

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