Julia Wakefield, Stella Damarjati, Lynette Arden, Maureen Sexton, Subha Goonaratne and Maeve Archibald met on Monday 15 April at 7pm using Google Meet. Apologies were received from Ewan Rourke, Jake Dennis, Steve Wigg and Kirsten Johnston. We asked people to send in the haiku that they would like to have read at the AHS meeting scheduled for World Haiku Day on April 17.
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Report on Bindii Meeting 23 March 2024
Steve Wigg, Julia Wakefield, Stella Damarjati, Lynette Arden, Jake Dennis and Ewan Rourke joined the Google Meet meeting, and apologies were received from Subha Goonaratne, Maureen Sexton and Kirsten Johnston. Most people sent their haiku in advance, which made it easier for us to critique them.
We workshopped our haiku and then arranged to have our next meeting on Sunday April 14 at 3pm, before the AHS meeting that takes place on International Haiku Poetry Day on April 17.
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Report on the Bindii Meeting 24 February 2024
We had a Google Meet meeting for the first time. Steve Wigg, Julia Wakefield, Stella Damarjati, Maeve Archibald, Subha Goonaratne, Maureen Sexton and Lynette Arden were joined by three new members: Kirsten Johnson, Jake Dennis and Ewan Rourke. Jake lives in WA as does Maureen, and Subha is based in Sydney, so Google Meet is a very handy way of bringing our group together. We all agreed it works just as well as Zoom.
Continue reading “Report on the Bindii Meeting 24 February 2024”Report on the Bindii Meeting 28 January 2024
Five members of the Bindii Group met up at 2pm for a Ginko at the Adelaide Botanic Gardens: Steve Wigg, Julia Wakefield, Stella Damarjati, Maeve Archibald and Lynette Arden. We managed to coordinate a Google Meet with Subha Goonaratne and Maureen Sexton using Julia’s iPad.
It was a perfect day for the occasion, even though the temperature was a little too warm for any strenuous walking. The café we arranged to meet at after an hour’s wandering proved too noisy, so we adjourned to a small summerhouse nearby.
Continue reading “Report on the Bindii Meeting 28 January 2024”Results of the AHS 2023 Summer Solstice Haiga Kukai: Non-Seasonal
I would like to congratulate all the winners and thank everyone who participated in the summer solstice kukai. I looked for some interesting and somewhat different images this year, hoping that the responses would also be of a similar nature, and I’m pleased to say the winner’s list reflects just that. The seasonal image was captured looking from the porthole of the Earnslaw, a 1912 Edwardian twin-screw steamer based at Lake Wakatipu in Queenstown, New Zealand – a stunning cruise if you ever get the chance to view one of the most beautiful places in the world.
1st Place
childhood
the things locked
behind time’s door
Gavin Austin
I really enjoyed such a clear and well-stated emotional poem that resonated with the strong solid image of the door. The poet uses an interesting phrase, time’s door, suggesting that so much is locked away in secret places over the passing of time. Combined with the single word first line, childhood, this is very nicely conceived poem and an interesting connection to the image, creating an effective haiga.
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I would like to congratulate all the winners and thank everyone who participated in the summer solstice kukai. I looked for some interesting and somewhat different images this year, hoping that the responses would also be of a similar nature, and I’m pleased to say the winner’s list reflects just that. The seasonal image was captured looking from the porthole of the Earnslaw, a 1912 Edwardian twin-screw steamer based at Lake Wakatipu in Queenstown, New Zealand – a stunning cruise if you ever get the chance to view one of the most beautiful places in the world.
1st Place
wind-snapped sky—
out by the heads
the seal colony barking
Sandra Simpson
From the very first reading, I was taken by the original opening line, wind-snapped, which is a perfect description of the sharpness and power of a blue sky. The poet places us in a nautical setting with the haiku, artfully creating a subtle double meaning with out by the heads, which is of course a land mass, and perhaps also the seals barking their heads off! Such fun and a worthy winner that works very well with the seed image and, rather than describing the image, gives us a strong shift to another place with beautiful descriptive language.
Continue reading “Results of the AHS 2023 Summer Solstice Haiga Kukai: Seasonal”Report on the Bindii Meeting of 19 November 2023
Five members of the Bindii Group gathered for a Zoom meeting at 3pm Australian Central Standard Time: Steve Wigg, Julia Wakefield, Stella Damarjati, Maureen Sexton and Lynette Arden. An apology was received from Maeve Archibald.
We had set the theme of ‘celebrations’ for our haiku critiques, but that was not the only theme of our submissions.
Continue reading “Report on the Bindii Meeting of 19 November 2023”AHS Summer Solstice Haiga Kukai 2023 Seasonal
Welcome, haiku poets worldwide to the Australian Haiku Society Summer Solstice Haiga Kukai. Entries close on midnight 29th of December AEST.
This competition has now closed. Ron C. Moss will judge the entries.
You are invited to write a haiku in response to the image by Ron C. Moss.
Enter no more than one haiku per image. Haiku entered should not have been published previously in print or online, including in discussion forums. If you enter more than one haiku per image, only your first haiku will be considered.
Your name should appear on your entry as you would like to see it on the website.
The winning haiku will be displayed on the AHS website.
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