Author: alison rogers

White Pebbles Haiku Group Spring Meeting

The White Pebbles Haiku group meets four times a year at the start of each season to celebrate the movement of the seasons and the writing of haiku in English in response. The Spring meeting was held on Saturday 14th September at the Pebbles’ regular meeting place – the beautiful Gosford/Edogawa Commemorative Japanese Gardens on the Central Coast of NSW.

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Illawong Haiku Group – Spring meeting

Tuesday 3rd September

The Illawong Haiku Group took advantage of an opportunity to experience something a little different for our Spring meeting. Hurstville Museum and Gallery (HM&G; part of Georges River Council) invited writing groups to use the current travelling exhibition 1 x 4 as inspiration. Museum space, writing supplies and morning tea were provided.

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Catchment – Poetry of Place: third edition

Submissions welcome – open 21st September to 21st November, 2024.

Thanks to all AHS members who have offered contributions to the first two issues of Catchment – Poetry of Place: such interest and support is greatly appreciated!

Australian poets are again encouraged to submit work which explores a sense of location, either in tanka or in longer Western forms, or both.

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Illawong Haiku Group Spring meeting

Tuesday 3rd September at Hurstville Museum and Gallery, 10.30am – 12.30pm
Visitors welcome.

An initiative by Hurstville Museum and Gallery (part of Georges River Council) for August Writers Month has provided us with the opportunity to occupy part of the museum space to observe and be inspired by the current travelling exhibition 1 x 4 to write some haiku.

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Cloudcatchers Winter Ginko No. 74

August 2024

What a cold winter it has been, but the Cloudcatchers held their winter ginko none-the-less, at a coastal venue – the home of one of our long-time members, Angela Smith, just south of Byron Bay on the far north coast of New South Wales. The grounds extend down a steep slope to a coastal reserve by the beach, with the sea breezes in our nostrils, and the sounds of the sea creeping into many haiku. Angela had suggested we wait for this one until winter, so all the brown snakes in the area would be asleep!

There were six of us, one an enthusiastic visitor, with two additional other  members who couldn’t be present due to health restrictions joining us in thought in a ‘virtual ginko’, and contributing later to the Round Robin, which is currently underway. We lunched together at a nearby Suffolk Park venue, The Park. Another successful, stimulating and bonding haiku ginko! 

Quendryth Young

(L to R) Quendryth Young, Robyn Braithwaite, Laurel Astle, Angela Smith, Lynette Holland, and (seated) Vivien Royston.