A reminder to Australian haiku poets that submissions to Windfall: Australian Haiku Issue 7 will be open throughout July 2018. Please send up to six haiku relevant to the experience of urban and rural life in Australia. Observations that celebrate landform, seasons, and our unique flora and fauna, are welcome.
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You are invited to the launch of rePresenting Nature: poetry and paintings by Janet Howie. Explore the connections between nature, art and human experience.
Where: Williamstown Literary Festival
Williamstown Town Hall,
104 Ferguson Street, Melbourne
(upstairs in the Council Chambers)
When: 5.00 – 6.00pm, on Sunday, June 17
Roz Edmond – editor and local artist will launch the book.
Drinks and nibbles provided
This is a free event but please RSVP: jmhowie@bigpond.com
Sunday, June 3rd was cold but sunny and bright. One could feel the frost in the air, although in Melbourne city and inner suburbs visible frost isn’t likely. We held our meeting on the upper level of Beer DeLuxe at Federation Square, where we had the luxury of the whole warm room to ourselves, except for one sparrow. As planned, Robyn Cairns led the group on the topic of ‘Urban Haiku’, having previously requested photos taken in our various neighbourhoods and sent us a relevant extract from Haruo Shirane’s ground-breaking essay of 2000, ‘Beyond the Haiku Moment’. Robbie brought along the photographs, beautifully presented on laminated A4 sheets as inspiration for writing ‘Urban Haiku’. An example:
But what is ‘Urban Haiku?’
Welcome to our May news on this first day of June.
Winter Solstice Haiku String
The shortest day is fast approaching. This year the Southern Hemisphere Winter Solstice takes place on Thursday 21st June. The Australian Haiku Society will be holding our annual Winter Solstice String and we would very much like haiku poets from Australian and around the world to participate. More information about the String will be posted on the website nearer the date of the Solstice.
10 May, 2018
It is not easy to organise a ‘tidal flat’ ginko, as we have to find a low tide at mid-morning, on a Thursday (our chosen day) in the middle month of the season, not in school holidays. We have been waiting eighteen months for these conditions to coincide, but after two wet ginko, this date, for a number of months, had also been predicted as ‘raining’.
Continue reading “Cloudcatchers: Ginko No.49 (autumn) Meldrum Park, Ballina”
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