Author: Simon Hanson

Paperbark Haiku Invite

Paperbark Haiku invites you to take part in our Spring Kambarang Ginko
We’re almost half way through Spring and into Kambarang (Noongar season), so the landscape is radiant with wildflowers and the days are slowly getting warmer. Time to celebrate and give birth to some new haiku. So join us on our ginko, or if you can’t do that, join us after for a Zoom meeting to share your new haiku from your personal ginko.

Wednesday 21st October
10 am
Tomato Lake
Oats St, Kewdale
Perth WA

Zoom meeting will be held
Wednesday 21st October
1 pm for 1 hour to share and discuss our haiku

Continue reading “Paperbark Haiku Invite”

Echidna Tracks Submissions

Echidna Tracks Issue 6: Shelter will be accepting submissions throughout the month of October.

For Issue 6 of Echidna Tracks: Australian Haiku: Shelter we invite your previously unpublished haiku and senryu on the theme of ‘shelter’ in all its many forms: protection from danger or weather, refuge, sanctuary, shield, cover, defence, concealment – including the animate, non-animate, human and non-human.

We won’t want a hundred haiku and senryu using the word ‘shelter’ but will give preference to those poems that best give us a sense of shelter by inference and suggestion.

The submission period for Issue 6 will be open throughout October 2020. Please read the guidelines carefully. We look forward to your submissions. Submissions may be made via the form that will appear on the Submissions page throughout October 2020.

Lynette Arden
Lyn Reeves
Simon Hanson

White Pebbles Spring Meeting

September 2020      

The spring meeting for the White Pebbles Haiku Group extended a little longer than is usual. The 12th of September flowed on to embrace the 12th –  21st of September, and that is so far!

All nine members commented on how much they enjoyed reading each others’ work.

Seven optional prompts were circulated to members well in advance of the scheduled email meeting date with the only firm request being that the seventh of these involving a painting, sketch or photograph  were included. One of our members,  who was travelling, wrote all of her verses in real time as she moved through diverse countryside locations —   a haiku journey we all greatly enjoyed learning about. Carefully considered comments on all the submitted haiku were shared  over the following days.

Positive and mutually supportive,  as always,  our members made sure our spring meeting was satisfying and very worthwhile.  

And who knows?  Perhaps our December meeting will again be held in the Gosford/Edogawa Gardens.

Beverley George
Convenor

Illawong Haiku Group

Tuesday 15 September 2020

Group members Patricia Meredith, Alison Miller, Ros Pitt and Margaret Mahony met at Carol Reynolds lovely home at Illawong which is close to the bush and looking full of new life this Spring. Lana was unable to attend but we hope to see her at our Summer meeting.

L to R: Patricia, Ros, Carol, Margaret and Alison

Continue reading “Illawong Haiku Group”

Bindii Zoom Meeting August 2020

On Sunday August 30 we met again on Zoom. Six of us attended: Julia Wakefield, Steve Wigg, Maeve Archibald, Stella Damarjati and Lynette Arden, as well as our esteemed interstate guest, Beverley George.

We had arranged at the previous meeting to put together another sequence, using the theme of ‘colour and light’. Each member was required to bring along between three and five haiku that they had written on this theme. This time we were much faster with our responses, and as we had two more people we had many more haiku to choose from. We endeavoured to take turns with each stanza in the sequence, but we found ourselves beginning to pick out the haiku that seemed to fit best, regardless of the order of contributors.

Continue reading “Bindii Zoom Meeting August 2020”

Haiku Workshops: Michael Dylan Welch

Michael Dylan Welch is running a number of workshops on Zoom that you are invited to attend. The workshops are part of the Perth Poetry Festival.

Click on the links below for further details:

Take a Walk on the haiku Side (ginko) 

Haiku on Steroids 

This is a great opportunity for poets interested in haiku and related forms.

See you there 

Maureen Sexton
Convenor Paperbark Haiku