Author: alison rogers

Cloudcatchers Spring Ginko No. 75

7 November 2024

Cloudcatchers’ Spring Ginko was held at Victoria Park, Dalwood NSW (near Alstonville). This was the group’s tenth visit to this magical location on the far north coast. It is a remnant of sub-tropical jungle, part of the Big Scrub, and once home of the Widjabul people of the Bundjalung nation. Here there is a vast array of forest flora and a great variety of insect and birdlife. Some of us did hear a distant thud-thud of a pademelon, but none were sighted. We viewed a giant scrub turkey nest extending over the boardwalk, and spied a yellow robin and its nest, believed to be an indicator of a healthy forest environment.

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Catchment – Poetry of Place : third edition

SUBMISSIONS FOR CATCHMENT closing on 21st November

A reminder: Australian poets are welcome to contribute tanka and/ or longer poems to Catchment – Poetry of Place – the submission period closes on 21st November. Focussing on a sense of locality, tanka poets may offer up to five (5) stand-alone poems, or a four-piece string/ sequence, using the submission portal found online here.

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Paperbark Haiku Spring Ginko

The Spring ginko, organised by Paperbark Haiku, was held on 15th October 2024, with a return visit to the Botanic Gardens at Kings Park in Perth. It was a glorious day, the weather sunny and warm, the views over Perth waters and the high rise of the city making a spectacular backdrop. It was a perfect setting for discussing and writing haiku. The Spring flowers, the towering trees and the memorials of Remembrance all gave the poets plenty of opportunity for inspiration.

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Haiku @ The Oaks, Canberra

Thursday, 10th October 2024

Many voices mingled beneath the trees on a sunny spring day, those of the numerous currawongs and magpies claiming dominance over those of human diners.  Four of us met over lunch: Kathy Kituai, Marietta McGregor, Glenys Ferguson and Jan Dobb.  Our thoughts were with missing friends, Hazel Hall and Greg Piko. 

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