Australian Haiku Poets are invited to send your poems to Lilly Sievers, who is putting together a new, regular column for the Urasenke Sydney quarterly magazine. The magazine, which has the aim of fostering cultural exchange with Japan, is distributed to members and friends of the Urasenke Sydney school of chado – the way of tea, and is also deposited in the National Library of Australia.
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Fringe Myrtles Meeting
The Fringe Myrtles met at our favourite location, the Royal Botanical Gardens in Melbourne. It was the day after the referendum on the Voice to Parliament (more on that below).
New Sedōka journal – United Haiku and Tanka Society
The United Haiku and Tanka Society is launching a new online journal for Sedōka poetry, Songbirds Sedōka Journal. Submissions are open from 1 November 2023 until 1 December 2023.
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All haiku poets in Melbourne, Victoria and beyond are invited to attend the launch of under the same moon: the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, on Saturday 11 November at the Melbourne Athenaeum Theatre Library from 3.00pm to 5.00pm.
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Reminder for Australian tanka poets – Catchment submissions close 21 November
Catchment – Poetry of Place offers a new opportunity for poets resident in Australia, both in tanka and longer verse forms. Catchment is a literary journal within the website for the Baw Baw Arts Alliance, based in West Gippsland, Victoria.
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Four members of the Bindii Group gathered for a Zoom meeting at approximately 2pm Australian Central Standard Time: Steve Wigg, Julia Wakefield, Stella Damarjati and Lynette Arden. Apologies were received from Maureen Sexton and Maeve Archibald.
We had arranged to bring some haiku on the theme of ageing or time passing, but all of us had been over busy – how often people seem to be saying that these days! – so we had very little to show each other. Stella, Lynette and Julia submitted their haiku that had already been accepted for Echidna Tracks, so there were no improvements offered, but the topics sparked a lively discussion about the images that were evoked.
Haiku @ The Oaks, Canberra
Thursday 12 October 2023
Spring sunshine, carolling currawongs and a table for six beneath shady trees. A full house @ The Oaks this month—Kathy Kituai, Hazel Hall, Marietta McGregor, Glenys Ferguson, Gregory Piko and Jan Dobb—all of us ready for this month’s spell of lunch, chat and friendship. With haiku well in the mix, of course.
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The third Gadigal Ginko took place on an overcast, humid Wednesday morning. Eight poets gathered outside the Chau Chak Wing Museum on the Camperdown campus of the University of Sydney. For some it was a return to familiar territory. Others were visiting for the first time. We dispersed in various directions to explore inside the museum, adjacent Victoria Park, and the University’s buildings and gardens. By the time we reconvened to share some draft poems the sun was shining.
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