As noted by its editor David McMurray, “Celebratory haiku from Australia made front page news in the Asahi newspaper on July 1.”
Haiku by Barbara Taylor and Marietta McGregor can be accessed through this link:
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201607010005.html
Continue reading “Australians on Asahi Haikuist Network”
Working in collaboration with Ferris Gilli, Australian haiku poet Ron C. Moss has come first in the HSA Bernard Lionel Einbond Memorial Renku Awards Collection for 2016.
Continue reading “Ron C. Moss – joint winner of HSA Renku Award 2016”
With the following poem, Australian haiku poet Simon Hanson has won first prize in the Jane Reichhold Haiku Prize, as recently announced at the 14th Annual Ukiah Haiku Festival in the United States:
hallway mirror
a vase of flowers
made of light
Annette Makino of California came second in this contest, with Scott Mason of New York third.
Sandra Simpson and Elaine Riddell from New Zealand both featured among the Honourable Mentions.
‘White Heron: The Authorized Biography of Janice Bostok’ by Sharon Dean has gone up on The Haiku Foundation website as the ‘Librarian’s Cache’ for the week.
It can be accessed at this link:
http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2016/06/01/librarians-cache-the-life-of-janice-m-bostok/
As noted by Lorin Ford, ‘this is a piece (a major work!) that will be welcomed and applauded by all Australians at all interested in haiku.’
As we did last year, the group met at Federation Wharf for our winter meeting, this time on a day full of umbrellas and continuous mizzling rain, which had the effect of muting the colours of the city and the river, but enhancing those of the deciduous leaves and the soft ochres and pinks of the Fed Square paving. Cormorants on the vacant tour boats hung out their wings despite the rain. The ever-present sparrows just shrugged it off.
We found a sheltered table outside one of the cafes by the river, where Robyn Cairns presented a copy of her recently published chapbook, In Transit (Picaro Poets Series, Ginninderra Press) to each of the other seven members present, then we moved on to our discussion.
Continue reading “Red Kelpie Haiku Group Ginko & Meeting #8”
A regular weekly winner of the “re” Virals” feature on The Haiku Foundation website, Jo McInerney has been successful once more.
Following her response to a haiku by Gary Hotham (‘evening loon call’), Jo has chosen a poem by a fellow Australian haiku poet – Ron C. Moss – for discussion in this week’s upcoming posting of “re: Virals”:
on wet sand
the crab’s skeleton
reaches out to sea
– from ‘Last visit’ (2002)
With further details provided below, readers are encouraged to respond, with guidelines to be found at this link:
http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2016/06/03/revirals-38/
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Included in the Expositions section of the final edition of A Hundred Gourds – just released – is a review of Windfall 4, written by Australian haiku poet Jo McInerney, who is becoming increasingly respected as a commentator on haiku.
Through accessing the following link, readers will be able to appreciate Jo’s response to the latest edition of Windfall, an annual selection of Australian haiku edited by Beverley George and published by Peter Macrow’s Blue Giraffe Press:
The 19th issue of A Hundred Gourds, a quarterly journal of haiku, haibun, haiga, tanka and renku poetry, is now available. This June 2016 issue is our final issue. All issues of A Hundred Gourds will remain available for the foreseeable future and we hope readers will continue to find them useful resources. We thank all of our contributors for the wonderful work AHG has been able to publish.
http://www.ahundredgourds.com/
As well as our Haiku, Haibun, Haiga, Tanka and Expositions sections, AHG 5:3 presents two Features, plus a range of Expositions: further details can be found below.
Continue reading “‘A Hundred Gourds’ 5.3 released – Lorin Ford”
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