This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is New South Wales poet, Nathalie Buckland.
charred forest—
the ultrasound
of my new grandchild
the butcher bird
checks for grubs—
swaddled baby
sandcastle –
an old man and a child
discuss design
father’s access day
a wind takes the petals
too soon
– Nathalie Buckland
The next Gadigal Ginko in Sydney will take place on Wednesday 26th February 2025, meeting at ~9.30am to visit Wareamah / Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour. Contemporary haiku poets of all levels of experience are invited to join the gathering. To register and receive details of the exact meeting point and arrangements, please visit the Gadigal Ginko web page.
Leanne Mumford
Convenor, Gadigal Ginko
This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is West Australian poet and editor, Gary Colombo de Piazzi.
grass
the wind lends
its weight
bead of sweat
another drop of salt—
outback lake
– Gary Colombo de Piazzi
This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is Melbourne poet, Robyn Cairns.
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Summer meeting report
The White Pebbles Haiku Group has been meeting once every season for the past seven years at the splendid Gosford/Edogawa Commemorative Garden. For our summer ginko on Saturday 14th December, Beverley George (founder and convener), Michael Thorley, Kent Robinson, Maire Glacken and Samantha Sirimanne Hyde caught up first at the Art Centre’s café. We missed members Marilyn Humbert, Gwen Bitti, Colleen Keating and Pip Griffin who had sent in their apologies.
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Readers are welcome to enjoy the third edition of Catchment – Poetry of Place, available now on the Baw Baw Arts Alliance website via Latest Edition.
Continue reading “Catchment – Poetry of Place : third edition”This String has now closed. Please enjoy the haiku posted in the comments. Thanks to all the poets worldwide who have contributed to this event. The event lasted eight days, from 12.30 am ACDT on 21 December 2024. The String closed at 12.30 am ACDT on 29 December 2024.
The Australian Haiku Society welcomes contributions from haiku poets worldwide to the Summer Solstice Haiku String.
We will be holding the Haiku String on the day of the Southern Hemisphere Summer Solstice, which occurs in Australia this year on Saturday, December 21st. To accommodate international poets who may wish to participate, the String will remain open for contributions until Sunday, December 29th, 2024. Contributions may be made on the website during these dates only (not before).
Haiku String – Instructions (please read all the instructions including formatting).
For many Australians summer means a relationship with water or the lack of it. Visits to the seaside or river to relax, swim or surf, precious dam storage, irrigation of crops, fighting bushfires, dealing with floods, and the many other aspects of water are a part of summer.
Continue reading “AHS Summer Solstice Haiku String 2024”Julia Wakefield, Maeve Archibald, Subha Goonaratne, Ewan Rourke and Lynette Arden met on Saturday November 17 at 3pm, using Zoom.
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