Tuesday 15 September 2020
Group members Patricia Meredith, Alison Miller, Ros Pitt and Margaret Mahony met at Carol Reynolds lovely home at Illawong which is close to the bush and looking full of new life this Spring. Lana was unable to attend but we hope to see her at our Summer meeting.
On Sunday August 30 we met again on Zoom. Six of us attended: Julia Wakefield, Steve Wigg, Maeve Archibald, Stella Damarjati and Lynette Arden, as well as our esteemed interstate guest, Beverley George.
We had arranged at the previous meeting to put together another sequence, using the theme of ‘colour and light’. Each member was required to bring along between three and five haiku that they had written on this theme. This time we were much faster with our responses, and as we had two more people we had many more haiku to choose from. We endeavoured to take turns with each stanza in the sequence, but we found ourselves beginning to pick out the haiku that seemed to fit best, regardless of the order of contributors.
Thank you for your contributions to the AHS Spring Equinox Haiku String 2020 on ‘Early Spring’. The String is now closed for contributions, but please enjoy the haiku in the String. Contributors have come from Australia and many other countries, which is reflected in the diverse range of haiku.
Michael Dylan Welch is running a number of workshops on Zoom that you are invited to attend. The workshops are part of the Perth Poetry Festival.
Click on the links below for further details:
Take a Walk on the haiku Side (ginko)
This is a great opportunity for poets interested in haiku and related forms.
See you there
Maureen Sexton
Convenor Paperbark Haiku
Eucalypt: a tanka journal is now open for submissions for issue 29.
Please submit up to six original, unpublished tanka (only one will be selected) in the body of your email to editor.eucalypt@gmail.com
Subscription details can be found here and further information about the tanka form can be read here.
Julie Thorndyke
Editor
Tuesday 8 September 2020
Another delightful and inspiring time together! The setting capped the magic. For the first time in months we were seated outside again in weather that was balmy in its stillness. Spring flowers coloured the surrounding garden, an especially eye-catching display of violets and grape hyacinths beneath the silver trunk of a birch. Music was provided by currawongs, magpies and miners (volume up!) as our lunch orders arrived.
The Australian Haiku Society welcomes contributions from haiku poets worldwide to the AHS Spring Equinox Haiku String 2020.
We will be holding a Haiku String during the day of the Southern Hemisphere Spring Equinox, which occurs in Australia on Tuesday, 22rd September 2020. The String will remain open for contributions until Thursday 25th September to accommodate international poets who may wish to take part. Contributions may be made on the website during these dates (not before).
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