7th March 2023
It wasn’t drought or flooding rain that prevented our planned ginko at Oatley Park today, just extreme heat, so we decided to meet in air conditioned comfort at my home.
Continue reading “Illawong Haiku Group Autumn Meeting”It wasn’t drought or flooding rain that prevented our planned ginko at Oatley Park today, just extreme heat, so we decided to meet in air conditioned comfort at my home.
Continue reading “Illawong Haiku Group Autumn Meeting”Eucalypt: a tanka journal is open for submissions for issue 34.
Closing date: 31 March 2023.
Please submit up to six original, unpublished tanka in the body of your email to editor.eucalypt@gmail.com
Paste your tanka into the body of the email, together with your full name and address, and a statement that they are original, unpublished poems, not under consideration elsewhere.
For subscription information: https://juliethorndyke.com/eucalypt-a-tanka-journal/
For information about the tanka form please refer to: http://www.eucalypt.info/
On Saturday 18th February six (and a bit) of us managed to get together for our summer ginko/picnic while our remaining members are away touring various parts of the world.
Continue reading “Portarlington Haiku Society”
Owing to editorial exigencies, the collection dates for Echidna Tracks Issue 11: Elements will now be from the 25th of March to the 15th of April, 2023. It is planned to post the first haiku for the journal on 1 July 2023.
Editors for Issue 11 will be Gavin Austin and Marilyn Humbert.
Continue reading “Changed Submission Dates Echidna Tracks Issue 11: Elements”Stella, Lynette, Steve, Maeve and I met for our usual Zoom meeting. We received apologies from Maureen, Kaarin and Subha. Steve had undertaken to give us a fascinating introduction to Zen Buddhist teachings, in the context of wabi sabi. As a trained Buddhist teacher himself, he is amply qualified to speak on the subject. We all said afterwards that it would be wonderful if he could produce a webinar on the subject that could be broadcast to other members of the Australian Haiku Society and/or to the general public.
Continue reading “Bindii Meeting report for February 11 2023”
Date: Thursday 9 February (summer), 10am
Place: Victoria Park, Alstonville, NSW
With Covid restrictions over, and weather limitations now abating, the summer ginko was organized with enthusiastic expectations. It was our ninth visit to this stimulating venue since our first in December 2006.
Continue reading “Cloudcatchers Ginko #68”