The Australian Haiku Society (AHS) is excited to be offering three mentorships as a trial programme from September this year. This is a new initiative of the AHS and the trial will help us to develop an even more substantial mentorship programme in the future.
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Members’ News – August 2025
Featured Haiku – Under the Same Moon: The Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology
This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is Pamela Smith.

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Haiku Poetry Workshop Opportunity, Central Coast, NSW, 23/08/2025

Vanessa Proctor will be facilitating a Haiku Poetry Workshop for Wyong Writers Group this coming Saturday, 23rd August.
- Time: 1:15 for 1:30pm start
- Duration: 2 hours
- Venue: Woodbury Park off Woodbury Park Drive, Mardi, NSW 2259
- Cost Members $10.00 Visitors $12.00 prepaid before 18/08/2025
- Includes afternoon tea/coffee
- Please bring writing paper and pen
- For more details and to confirm attendance (limited spaces) email glenndc@ozemail.com.au
For more information about the club visit www.wyongwriters.org
Featured Haiku – Under the Same Moon: The Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology
This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is Chris Lynch.

missing you cabin crew disarm doors
sitting outside the meditation hall winter sun
possum pauses on the powerline lightning flash
silent night the fridge hum changes pitch

If you are interested in purchasing a copy of the anthology, please contact the secretary of the AHS.
Report on the Fringe Myrtles Meeting July, 2025
The Fringe Myrtles devoted our most recent meeting to a discussion about the haiku of Santōka Taneda, regarded as one of the leading figures of free-form haiku in Japan during the early 20th century. Our meeting was held in a hybrid fashion (with mixed success) some of the group meeting face-to-face at the Athenaeum Theatre and others joining online.
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Featured Haiku – Under the Same Moon: The Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology
This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is Andrew Hede.

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Upcoming Gadigal Ginko for Sydney poets
As previously posted, the next Gadigal Ginko in Sydney is happening on Tuesday 19th August, from 1.30pm, in Pyrmont. If you would like to participate, please visit my Gadigal Ginko web page to register by 16th August.
Leanne Mumford
Convenor, Gadigal Ginko
