Members of the Red Dragonflies were unable to meet in person this quarter, so instead we decided to complete a shisan renku by email where I acted as sabaki. The renku’s title is ‘A Dream of Persimmons’ and was most enjoyable to write. After eight years of writing and discussing haiku together, we found that our rapport was still strong even though we weren’t writing face-to-face.
Vanessa Proctor Continue reading “Red Dragonflies Summer Meeting 2016”
For our final meeting of 2016, a small group of four members shared some haiku and their experiences of writing and working with haiku during 2016. Continue reading “Bindii Japanese Genre Poetry Group Meeting 3 December 2016”
Following news of the deadly earthquake and tsunami in the south island of New Zealand in the early hours of 14 November, the Australian Haiku Society sends its very best wishes to all those who have been affected. We sincerely hope that our haiku friends and their families in New Zealand are safe and well.
Vanessa Proctor
President, Australian Haiku Society
Thursday Plantation, Ballina NSW
Thursday 13 October 2016
In spite of the ginko being held in the middle month of spring, there was a cool wind at the tea tree plantation. Nine poets, two of them experiencing a ginko for the first time, gathered at this venue on the outskirts of Ballina. Here an ancient rainforest remnant has become a site for sculptural installations, creating an intriguing composite of natural and man-made objects: the strangler figs so old, so huge; the vines so long, so high; and the art works at times incongruous among them. Continue reading “Cloudcatchers Ginko No.43 (spring)”
Poems to Wear: from Japan and Australia
Selections and commentary by Noriko Tanaka, translations by Amelia Fielden and Saeko Ogi
Ginninderra Press, 2016
“Poems to Wear is a wonderful collection – brilliantly conceived, beautifully written . . . Part 1 contains haiku and tanka by modern and contemporary Japanese poets and Part 2 contains haiku and tanka by Australian poets. The poets are at their imaginative best . . . they collect observations from the world of attire and present the reader with poems both thought provoking and a pleasure to read . . . the result is vivid work, animated and illuminated . . .”
(from the blurb) Patricia Prime, editor of Kokako Continue reading “Poems to Wear”
The Bindii group met at 12.30, at the Box Factory, 59 Regent St South, Adelaide.
Belinda Broughton gave a comprehensive workshop on haiga. She started with a PowerPoint presentation that included examples of the different styles of haiga, from the traditional Japanese forms and simple brush drawings to modern photo haiga and many other examples, such as collage. Belinda also showed some of her own haiga in different styles, including some on rice paper, and sketch book notes, and others that had been derived from her photos, or sketched electronically in various computer programs. Continue reading “Bindii Japanese Genre Poetry Group Meeting 1 October 2016”
Morning drizzle and mists gave way to blue sky and sunshine as six of us met around an outside table with our coffee, tea, a tempting cake or two, and assorted bits of haiku and tanka. A persistent wattle bird tried to join our gathering — for gourmet reasons rather than poetic — before heading to test his luck elsewhere. Duck parents shepherded their lone baby duckling on the wet green lawns. Continue reading “Gathering of Haiku @ The Oaks, Canberra, on Monday 19 September 2016”
Greetings haiku poets,
I would like to thank everyone who entered into the spirit of this image kukai and I feel it has been a great success. There are many fine poems using various haiku techniques and subjects linking to the image. What I would like to do is talk briefly about my selection and the things that appeal to me. The very best haiga are strong in image and haiku, each can stand alone, but something special is created by their merging together.
I would also like to thank the AHS committee for making this event possible and allowing me to showcase some of my favourite images. The real reward is I get to choose from the selected haiku some worthy winners and I hope this has made it a fun event for all.
Warm regards,
Ron C. Moss
First Place
some coolness still
deep in the buds
sunshower
Marietta McGregor Continue reading “Winner of Spring AHS Haiga Kukai: Seasonal”
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