Winter Ginko and Meeting June 2025
After a relaxing chat over coffee in the cafe at the Gosford/Edogawa Commemorative Gardens we broke off and wandered into the main area of the gardens for individual meditation. The day was perfectly still with not a movement in the bushes near me, only a lonely butterfly making its wobbly way through the crisp morning.
Continue reading “White Pebbles Haiku Group”Eleven of us gathered on 3rd June at Hurstville Museum and Gallery to view ‘Focus: Australian Photographer’s Exhibition’; Alison Miller, Rita Potente, Kathleen Ann, Patricia Meredith, Margaret Mahony and six guests. Carol Reynolds and Ros Pitt were unable to attend.
After a welcome by Katrina, our library host, we enjoyed morning tea.
Autumn, Shark Bay, Evans Head
The Cloudcatchers Group met for our autumn ginko on Thursday 29th May
and were blessed with a lovely sunny day. This was spent at a site new to us, at Shark Bay, Evans Head. The gathering comprised Laurel Astle, Robyn Braithewaite, Norma Watts and Quendryth Young, with visitors Richard Watts and Garry Glover.
Realising World Haiku Day was suddenly upon us, an event was organised to celebrate. A group of thirteen interested haiku writers gathered at the Maylands Library, Western Australia, and presented three of their favourite haiku and an explanation why the haiku were loved. Discussions followed.
Continue reading “WA Paperbark celebrates World Haiku Day 17th April 2025”Learning of the passing of a fellow haiku poet always brings sadness, but often there are also happy memories of favourite poems they’ve penned, encouragement they’ve offered or their generous service to the haiku community. So it is for many who knew Cynthia Rowe, as attested by the recently posted tributes.
Continue reading “Members’ News – May 2025”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.
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.
Continue reading “Haiku @ The Oaks”Members of the Portarlington Haiku Society celebrated International Haiku Poetry Day by hanging their ‘serviette haiku’ along a wire fence leading into town from the pier, capturing the attention of those arriving from Melbourne on the daily ferry. The group met at a local cafe for lunch before securing their prepared material serviettes with staples along the fence line.
The PHS continue to run their own monthly kukai, the results published in a regular newsletter, ‘Wingspan’.
Australian Haiku Society 