After four years in office, my term as President of the Australian Haiku Society has come to an end. It has been both an honour and a privilege to represent the society and to have been in touch with so many wonderful haiku poets, not only in Australia but worldwide.
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Author: Vanessa Proctor
Call out for Haiku on Postcards
The Polish haiku poet, Krzysztof Kokot, has begun an initiative to collect picture postcards from all over the world, on which (on the reverse side), the sender/author will post their haiku with a view to creating an exhibition of the postcards.
Send one postcard with a view of your city/region with the haiku on the back. The haiku should not be connected with the view on the postcard, but should reflect your homeland.
Write the haiku by hand. No envelopes please.
Contact Krzysztof Kokot for more information at: kwkokot@poczta.onet.pl
Paperbark Haiku Group Summer Gathering 2020, Wednesday 12th February 10am to noon.
Please join us for a ginko/haiku gathering, Wednesday 12th February 10am to 12 noon. The Lounge Room Café, 187 James Street, Guildford WA, in the historic Guildford township. There’s 2 hour parking in the back streets.Close to the Guildford Railway Station, too! See you there.
Administrators: Maureen Sexton, Barry Sanbrook, Rose Van Son, Samar Ghose, Tash Adams.
Yone Noguchi compares hokku to “a tiny star … carrying the whole sky at its back.” He compares an English poem to “a mansion with windows widely open, even the pictures of its drawing-room visible from the outside. It does not tempt me much to see the within.” He says, “simplicity and the power of suggestion offer a superior poetic form.”
We are also on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/12352015101 708/
Season’s Greetings to All AHS Members
I’d like to wish all AHS members a safe and peaceful holiday season, especially in these trying times of drought, bush fire and extreme weather conditions in Australia. Our thoughts go out to all affected and also to the brave firefighters who are working so hard to keep us safe.
Vanessa Proctor
President, Australian Haiku Society
Red Dragonflies’ Christmas Meeting, 2019
On Saturday 7th December, 2019, the Red Dragonflies met at the NSW Art Gallery Café for coffee, a workshop and lunch.
The plan was to then proceed to the Botanic Gardens for a ginko but the smoke haze covering Sydney prevented this, so we remained at the Gallery.
Ten of us were in attendance, Vanessa Proctor hosted and welcomed Barbara Fisher, Dawn Bruce, Leanne Mumford, Willem Tibben, Beverley George, Laurel Astle, Garry Glover, Carol Reynolds and Margaret Mahony.
Final Call for Submissions from Sydney and Neighbouring NSW Poets
Gordon Young is a British artist who has been commissioned to work in Sydney’s Inner West. His works are often in public places, sometimes on a large scale and usually based upon text. www.gordonyoung.net.
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Call for Submissions from Sydney and Neighbouring NSW Haiku Poets
Gordon Young is a British artist who has been commissioned to work in Sydney’s Inner West. His works are often in public places, sometimes on a large scale and usually based upon text. www.gordonyoung.net.
Continue reading “Call for Submissions from Sydney and Neighbouring NSW Haiku Poets”
Red Dragonflies’ Spring Meeting 2019
A small group of the Red Dragonflies met on Saturday 7th September: Vanessa Proctor, Barbara Fisher and Beverley George and newbie me, Wanda Amos down from Old Bar. In the leafy suburb of Pymble, Vanessa’s house was the meeting place and the trees swirled around us on that not so warm Spring day.
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