Australian Haiku Society

Prior Announcement: AHS Summer Haiga Kukai 2023

The Australian Haiku Society will hold a Haiga Kukai for the Summer Equinox occurring this year in Australia on 22^nd December. Once again, Ron C. Moss has generously provided two images (Seasonal and Non-seasonal), which will be displayed on the AHS website from 22^nd December to midnight on 29^th December AEST. For each competition, poets will be invited to submit one previously unpublished haiku inspired by the image. Ron will then select the winning haiku, which will be displayed on the AHS website.

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Urasenke Sydney Haiku Collaboration

Lilly Sievers is collecting more haiku for her ongoing column in the Urasenke Sydney magazine. She would like to express her gratitude to the Australian Haiku Society members for their previous contributions and would be delighted to feature more Australian haiku in the Urasenke magazine.

Illawong Haiku Group Meeting

Thursday 30 November 2023

There were six of us present: our convener Carol Reynolds, Ros Pitt, Rita Potente, Alison Miller, Patricia Meredith and Margaret Mahony, for the meeting held in Carol’s home.

(In)visible Libraries event in Melbourne 30/11 – 02/12/2023

Performance artist and Fellow of the State Library of Victoria, Leisa Shelton, is working on a project for an exhibition ‘(In)visible Libraries’ that includes small hand-made books of haiku from Under the Same Moon alongside their translation into Braille. The first of these features urban haiku. Poets whose work has been selected are Olivia Ark, Gavin Austin, Dawn Bruce, Jane Gibian, Louise Hopewell, Jayashri Maniyil, Maurice Nevile and Lyn Reeves. There is a readers’ corner where people can access these books. If you are in Melbourne you may like to drop in and enjoy the poetry. For more information please visit the link below:
https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/whats-on/invisible-libraries

For more background to the project, see the ABC news story from last year.

Cloudcatchers’ Spring Ginko (No. 71)

DATE: Thursday 9 November
PLACE: Bicentennial Park, Ballina
TIME: 10 am

The weatherman had a lot of trouble deciding what our day would bring, but all was well. There were blue skies, not too hot, and a new venue to be explored at the Bicentennial Park in Ballina, with picnic facilities along with some first-growth coastal forest.

Haiku @ The Oaks, Canberra

Thursday 9 November 2023

How quickly the months come around, and here we are again @ The Oaks, this time with rain falling and puddles filling. So, an inside day it is. Just four of us to lunch—Gregory Piko, Glenys Ferguson, Marietta McGregor and Jan Dobb—our thoughts turning to missing chums, Kathy Kituai and Hazel Hall.

News for Members

November 2023

melbourne launch of under the same moon

The Melbourne Launch of under the same moon: Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology will be held at the Melbourne Athenaeum Theatre Library, Saturday 11 November, 3pm-5pm. Rob Scott’s interview about the anthology, hosted by Melbourne poet, Di Cousens and broadcast on 2nd November on Radio 3CR in Melbourne, can be heard here.

Paperbark Spring Ginko, Kings Park (Karrgatup)

27 October, 2023, Perth (Boorloo)

A great turn out for a perfect spring day in Kings Park, where displays of Western Australian wild flowers were still viable despite a few non-spring-like days of heat in the previous week.