Below is a review by Cynthia Rowe of Jeffrey Woodward’s new collection of haiku and haibun.
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Under the Basho
Under the Basho – a new haiku journal
Under the Basho will be published twice a year and welcomes haiku of five different styles: Traditional Haiku; Stand-Alone Hokku; Modern Haiku, One-Line Haiku, and, Concrete Haiku (Architectural).
Submission deadlines are August 15th for the September Issue and February 15th for our March Issue.
All submission information and details are posted on our website/journal: http://www.underthebasho.com . If there are any questions, please click the “Contact Us” button for direct email to us. Please let me know if you need anything else.
Don Baird
August 10, 2013
Perth Workshop: Haiku – Sensing the image
Maureen Sexton will hold a free workshop in Perth on 2 September: Haiku – Sensing the image. The short, long and short of it!
In this workshop, we will examine the ‘what is’ and ‘how to’ of haiku.
Bindii Renku Workshop
Bindii Group Workshop on Renku by Lee Bentley
The meeting of Bindii on 3 August was a Renku workshop organized by Lee Bentley.
Five members attended the meeting. Lee outlined the principles of renku and the history of renga/renku. This was followed by a more detailed look at how the method of link and shift is used to build a renku.
The group then read a kasen renku The Click of Mahjong Tiles together with the analysis of the links used to construct the renku.
Led by Lee Bentley, the group then began work on their own Junicho renku.
The meeting finished at 2 pm. Lee Bentley is considering organizing an extra meeting for those interested in renku or rengay. Interested members will be advised.
MEETINGS FOR 2013
2 November (Saturday) 11:00 am – 2:00 pm at the Box Factory
Haibun with Maeve Archibald (Box Factory booking). This will be the final meeting at the Box Factory for the year. Workshop will include 30 mins lunch break.
Lynette Arden
3 August 2013
Red Dragonflies’ Winter Meeting 2013
The Red Dragonflies met on Saturday 13th July at Dawn Bruce’s home in St Leonards. Vanessa Proctor led members Dawn Bruce and Cynthia Rowe. Lesley Walter, Barbara Fisher and Beverley George were unable, regrettably, to attend and sent their apologies.
It was a productive afternoon and the exercises were challenging. We workshopped haiku about puzzles, moments of grace we had experienced, various aspects of loss and, as the day marked the 69th birthday of Erno Rubik, even cubist cats! It was an enjoyable and, as always, convivial meeting.
Cynthia Rowe
President, HaikuOz
Danish Haiku Today 2012: A Review
Hanne Hansen, Chairman of the Haiku Group of the Danish Authors’ Society, recently provided the Australian Haiku Society with a copy of Danish Haiku Today 2012. Below is a short review of the anthology, written by Greg Piko
Cloudcatchers’ Ginko No. 29
Ginko No. 29 (autumn)
Lake Ainsworth, Lennox Head, NSW
Date: Thursday 9 May 2013
After so many ginko full of rain, sun beamed on the Autumn gathering of the Cloudcatchers on 9 May – until the last half hour.
Lake Ainsworth at Lennox Head, a fresh water lake a stone’s throw from the ocean, glistened through the paperbark and banksia. A dozen species of birdlife animated the scene, and a few swimmers braved the cold dark tea-tree-stained waters, crossing wakes with those of cruising teal. After sharing our first drafts of haiku around a large picnic table we moved on to the Lennox Hotel for lunch together. The usual post-ginko email Round Robin is currently under way. The Winter ginko is scheduled for Thursday 8 August. Enquiries to Quendryth Young: quendrythyoung@bigpond.com
Quendryth Young
Bindii 4 May 2013
May Haiku Workshop
The 4 May 2013 meeting of Bindii group was held at the Box Factory in Adelaide. from 12:00 to 3:00 Eleven participated, including both experienced and new haiku poets. There were also nine apologies for the meeting. The workshop was organized by Lee Bentley and Lynette Arden.
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