JODIE HAWTHORNE has a new haiku book WATCHING PILGRIMS, WATCHING ME, published by Pardalote Press. It was launched in Tasmania. Kaye Aldenhoven had an opportunity to talk to Jodie in Darwin, as she waits for the birth of her child, before returning to China.
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Empty Garden
empty garden by Beverley George – reviews
There are now eight reviews of empty garden : Beverley George’s tanka collection, listed on www.eucalypt.info under empty garden. Four of these reviews may be accessed online. The two most recent reviews are by South African tanka poet, Maria Steyn, In Ribbons the journal of the Tanka Society of America and by Japanese poet, Aya Yuhki, in The Tanka Journal {Japan].
January 2007
Oil Slick Sun: haiku
Oil Slick Sun: haiku
by Peter Macrow
ISBN 0 9578436 7 4
published by Pardalote Press
125 x 180 mm, 64pp, colour cover, paperback, perfect bound
Price: $AU 18.50
Peter’s poems have a soft resonance of resignation, a quiet recognition of the beauty of things past, and pointing to the aesthetics of death in a secularly spiritual way, which perhaps the ancient masters could only do through a Buddhist veil. Maria Flutsch, University of Tasmania
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oil slick sun is a fascinating text, not afraid of “difficulty” but not seeming to indulge in it for its own sake. A fluid sense of time, place, individual and family generates complexes of meaning and feeling with which most readers will be able to empathise. Macrow’s use of a briefer line in his haiku than the traditional 5/7/5 syllable form, his ability to use the structure in a very accomplished and thorough way and to challenge and subvert orthodox beliefs about the process and purpose of haiku, makes for thought-provoking reading. Patricia Prime, Stylus
JANUARY 10, 2007
Jodie Hawthorne’s haiku collection
Watching pilgrims watching me: haiku from Shangri-la Deqen Tibetan Region
by Jodie Hawthorne
ISBN 0 9578436 8 2
published by Pardalote Press
125 x 180 mm, 64pp, colour cover, paperback, perfect bound
Price: $AU 18.50
‘a book of gentle grace’ – Christopher Bantick, The Sunday Tasmanian
Deqen’s landscape evokes a sense of calm and healing that provides a perfect environment for artistic expression. These qualities, combined with the constant challenges, paradoxes and inconsistencies, brought into being the haiku moments of this collection.
today
just mountains
and people who love them
Spinifex: haiku by Beverley George
a new haiku collection by Beverley George, Spinifex contains many of her prize-winning haiku and haiku sequences.
Spinifex: haiku
by Beverley George
ISBN 0 957843609 0
published by Pardalote Press
125 x 180 mm, 60pp, colour cover, paperback, perfect bound
Price: $AU 18.50
Thangs Cafi Haiku Reading
Thangs Cafi is holding a haiku reading to celebrate Spring and Summer on Thursday November 16th at 8pm. Featured readers will be Sue Stanford, Matt Hetherington, Leanne Hills, Antony Ley and Myron Lysenko.
There will also be an open reading of haiku, and prizes will be presented to the most striking and memorable haiku of the night.
THANGS CAFI 502 Lygon Street, Brunswick East (near Albion Road). Enquiries to Roger 9383.7851 or Paul Gibson Roy at this email address: roypg@unimelb.edu.au
amongst the graffiti
a tiny violet
clinging
Janice M. Bostok
Current Events
what is going on in the haiku world
Haiku – 5-7-5? An article by Vanessa Proctor
When many people hear the word ‘haiku’, their immediate response is, ‘That’s a Japanese poem written in seventeen syllables – 5-7-5’. While it’s true that traditional Japanese haiku is written in this form, haiku in English, because of the very nature of the English language, doesn’t conform to the 5-7-5 pattern.
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