Author: Leanne Mumford

President, Australian Haiku Society

Rare Opportunity

Have ever you benefitted from the support and encouragement of other haiku poets, perhaps when you were new to haiku? Would you like to pay some of that kindness forward while connecting with many other poets and helping to shape the future of the Australian Haiku Society offers? What is this rare opportunity?

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Thank you, Alison

The Australian Haiku Society Executive Committee would like to thank Alison Rogers for her hard work as Secretary from April 2024 until recently. Unfortunately, for personal reasons she had to relinquish this role before the end of her term. No doubt many haiku group leaders and others in the Australian and broader haiku communities are similarly grateful for her volunteer service and would join us in wishing Alison all the best for the future.

Calling all Queensland Haiku Poets

Over coming months, the Australian Haiku Society will host online haiku readings by interested poets, from one state or territory at a time. The formal reading segment will be followed by an opportunity for informal discussion with the aim of fostering connections between poets. While poets from a particular state or territory will be reading, there will be no geographic restriction for the audience. Registrations will be required to obtain the Zoom link, however. 

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Cloudcatchers Summer Ginko No. 80

DATE:  Thursday 22.01.2026 
PLACE: Torakina Park, Brunswick Heads NSW
PRESENT: Norma Watts, Richard Watts, Robyn Braithwaite, Quendryth Young, Vivien Royston, Angela Smith.

Summertime, and the Cloudcatchers’ Group celebrated its eightieth gathering of haiku poets at the spot where it all began. It was in the December summer of 2005 that John Bird assembled a group of writers who had indicated a yearning to learn more about haiku. The site was Torakina Park, a picnic spot at the mouth of the Brunswick River, at Brunswick Heads, on the north coast of New South Wales. So this is where we gathered once more to celebrate our eightieth ginko, twenty summers later.

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Paperbark Haiku Summer 2025 Ginko

AHS sincerely apologises for the delay in posting this report.

The Paperbark Haiku Group’s Summer gathering for 2025 was held on the morning of Wednesday December 10th. Twelve haiku enthusiasts gathered at the Little Rokeby Café in Subiaco to experience the nearby memorial gardens, and to set down lines of haiku in response to the environs.

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