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.
Continue reading “Cloudcatchers’ Spring Ginko (No. 71)”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.
Continue reading “Haiku @ The Oaks, Canberra”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.
Continue reading “News for Members”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.
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.
Continue reading “Urasenke Sydney Haiku Opportunity”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).
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.
Continue reading “New Sedōka journal – United Haiku and Tanka Society”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.
Continue reading “Melbourne Launch of the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology”
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