Due to unforeseen circumstances, with weather threatening safe travel, the White Pebbles summer meeting scheduled for December 9th was deferred to January 13th.
Continue reading “White Pebbles Haiku Group Summer Meeting 2024”Author: Leanne Mumford
President, Australian Haiku Society
Last day of summer 2024
Paperbark Haiku Ginko WA
Text and photo by Rose van Son
It has been a hot summer here in Perth, the heat unrelenting and so many days over 40C+! Needless to say, our meeting destined for the Harold Boas Gardens was cancelled because of the forecast. We had been looking forward to the walk, viewing the gardens, experiencing the waterfalls in the brochures; the gardens perched right on the city’s edge. We thought we could beat the heat, keep to canopied areas, and grapple with moving shade: we can do this, we said! But no, the heat unbearable and the event cancelled.
Continue reading “Last day of summer 2024”Eucalypt: a tanka journal: e-News February 2024
The February 2024 Eucalypt: a tanka journal e-Newsletter is now online, announcing the Distinctive Scribble Award winners for issue 35. Click on the link below to access the PDF file.
https://jthorndyke.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/eucalypt-enews-feb-2024.pdf
Submission window for issue 36: 1st to 31st March 2024.
Julie Thorndyke
Editor, Eucalypt : a tanka journal
editor.eucalypt@gmail.com
Cloudcatchers Ginko No. 72
DATE: Thursday 8 February (summer)
PLACE: Missingham Park, Ballina at 10 am
Cloudcatchers’ Summer Ginko (No.72) was held between raindrops on the southern bank of the mouth of the Richmond River in Ballina, on Thursday 8 February 2024, with the group assembling at 10 am. Missingham Park is adjacent to the Skate Park, which subsequently featured in a few of our haiku.
Continue reading “Cloudcatchers Ginko No. 72”Reminder – call for volunteers to join the AHS Committee
The call for Expressions of Interest in joining the AHS Committee in various roles is closing soon – on Monday 26th February. This is a great opportunity to help steer the society in the future, so if you are an Australian haiku poet with something to contribute – enthusiasm, time, experience, skills or ideas – please consider volunteering for a role. See the earlier post for more details, and contact the Secretary with any queries via the Contact Secretary form.
Gadigal Ginko 3rd February 2024
Nine poets met for the fourth Gadigal Ginko, held in a corner of Centennial Park on Saturday 3rd February. We welcomed three first-time participants – Zina, Jane and Devni – joining Subha, Carol, Margaret, Susan, Wanda and Leanne.
Continue reading “Gadigal Ginko 3rd February 2024”Help Steer the Australian Haiku Society
Calling for Expressions of Interest to join the Executive Committee
The Australian Haiku Society is calling on Australian haiku poets to submit expressions of interest to serve in several positions on the Society’s Executive Committee. The Executive Committee is responsible for the administration of the Society so that it can fulfill its mission. The Society exists to promote and support English-language haiku in Australia and encourage the enjoyment of this poetic form in the Australian community.
Continue reading “Help Steer the Australian Haiku Society”New Year, New Opportunities
January 2024
1. We are calling for Expressions of Interest in joining the Australian Haiku Society Executive Committee. Look out for the details coming shortly in a separate post.
2. Hobart Launch: under the same moon: Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology. 16th February at Fullers Bookshop. Further details below.
3. Although it is several months away, we are encouraging you to start planning how you will celebrate International Haiku Poetry Day on 17 April. More details below.
4. Return of Haiku Down Under conference in August. See below for dates.
5. Sandra Simpson, our colleague over in New Zealand, maintains a fantastic international list of competition and publication opportunities at Haiku NewZ.
6. Congratulations to Lorraine Haig on the publication of her first haiku collection Curving into Light, available from Forty South. Congratulations to Gavin Austin, Rose van Son, Wanda Amos, Carol Reynolds and Julie Constable for their great results in the Summer Solstice Non-Seasonal and Seasonal Kukai contests. If you’re an Australian haiku poet who has recently won a prize or received an award for your haiku, haibun or haiga, if you’ve been published in a book or been invited to read your work, we’d like to know so we can share the good news. Please use the Contact Secretary form to tell us about your recent achievement.
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