Lynette Arden

AHS Spring Equinox Haiku String 2023

The Australian Haiku Society welcomes contributions from haiku poets worldwide to the Spring Equinox Haiku String 2023.

We will be holding this Haiku String during the day of the Southern Hemisphere Spring Equinox, which occurs in Australia this year on Saturday, ^23rd September 2023. The String will remain open for contributions until Sunday, ^1st October 2023, to accommodate international poets who may wish to take part.

The AHS Spring Equinox Haiku String has now closed. Please enjoy the contributions.

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Preliminary Notice: AHS Spring Equinox Haiku String 2023

The Australian Haiku Society welcomes contributions from haiku poets worldwide to the Spring Equinox Haiku String.

We will be holding the Haiku String during the day of the Southern Hemisphere Spring Equinox, which occurs in Australia this year on Saturday, ^23rd September 2023. The String will remain open for contributions until Monday, ^1st October 2023, to accommodate international poets who may wish to take part. Contributions may be made on the website during these dates only (not before).

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Submissions for Echidna Tracks Issue 12: Open Theme are now open

For Echidna Tracks, Issue 12, we invite your best and previously unpublished haiku and senryu on any topic that stirs your imagination.

The submission period for Echidna Tracks Issue 12: Open Theme will be open during the month of September 2023. Submissions will only be received via the submissions form and during the time the link is open.

Anybody can submit work that is relevant to Australia – but as this is a website for the collection of Australian haiku, the work we are looking for will come from an authentic experience of either living in or visiting Australia. Unfortunately, we cannot consider your submission when we cannot verify an Australian connection.

Call for Submissions Echidna Tracks Issue 12: Open Theme

Report on the Bindii Meeting of 6 August 2023

Four members of the Bindii Group gathered for a Zoom meeting at 3 pm Australian Central Standard Time: Steve Wigg, Julia Wakefield, Stella Damarjati and Lynette Arden. Apologies were received from Maureen Sexton and Maeve Archibald.

Julia reported that she had had discussions with three other AHS groups about possible future collaborations.

Report on the Bindii Meeting of 17 June 2023

Four members of the Bindii Group gathered for a Zoom meeting at 3 pm Australian Central Standard Time: Steve Wigg, Maureen Sexton, Maeve Archibald and Lynette Arden.

Apologies were received from Julia Wakefield, Stella Damarjati, Kaarin Wilkinson and Subha Goonaratne.

After exchanging greetings and comments about the wintry weather in Adelaide and Perth, we discussed some ideas about haiku structure. Although the Matsuyama Declaration freed Western haiku from the constraints of season words and kireji (break in the haiku), most Western haiku still use a break in the structure rather than consist of a single sentence. The more radical haiku sometimes only contain a single word. Members felt that the haiku idea needed to resonate with the reader, which was the most essential element of the haiku.

Report on Bindii Meeting April 2023

On 15 April 2023 Stella, Lynette, Steve, Subha, Maeve, and I met for our usual Zoom meeting. We received apologies from Maureen and Kaarin.

We workshopped a few of our own haiku both for the AHS meeting on 17 April and on the topic of childhood. Lyn drew our attention to the ‘movie technique’ in haiku, which moves the reader from a long shot in the first line to a close-up in the third line.

Some of us were able to attend the AHS meeting, and there was a discussion at the end on the idea of different groups meeting up on Zoom. We said we were open as a group to having visitors from other groups at our meetings.

Echidna Tracks Issue 11: Elements is Now Open for Submissions

For Echidna Tracks Issue 11: Elements, we invite your best and previously unpublished haiku and senryu on the theme of Elements. Please read the guidelines and submit your work at this link: Echidna Tracks Issue 11: Elements Submissions are open from the 25th of March to the 15th of April, 2023.

AHS Autumn Equinox Haiku String 2023

The Australian Haiku Society welcomes contributions from haiku poets worldwide to the Autumn Equinox Haiku String 2023.

We will be holding this Haiku String during the day of the Southern Hemisphere Autumn Equinox, which occurs in Australia this year on Tuesday, 21^st March 2023. The String will remain open for contributions until Thursday, 30^th March 2023, to accommodate international poets who may wish to take part.

The string has now closed. Thanks to all the poets who generously contributed their work to this event.

Please enjoy the haiku!

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