Our first meeting for 2014 was a follow up haibun workshop run by Maeve Archibald in November 2013. This gave members the opportunity to get and give feedback on haibun that had bee written subsequent to the November workshop.
Category: Bindii Japanese Genre Poetry Group
Bindii 2 November 2013
There were seven members present at the November meeting in The Box Factory, Adelaide for our November workshop led by Maeve Archibald. Eight other members sent apologies.
General business: Beverley George’s latest Children’s book was passed around to members. Members talked briefly about changed meeting arrangements next year (2014).
We have booked for sessions running from 1-3 pm at the Box Factory on the first Saturday of the following months: February, April, June, August, October, and December.
Bindii Renku Workshop
Bindii Group Workshop on Renku by Lee Bentley
The meeting of Bindii on 3 August was a Renku workshop organized by Lee Bentley.
Five members attended the meeting. Lee outlined the principles of renku and the history of renga/renku. This was followed by a more detailed look at how the method of link and shift is used to build a renku.
The group then read a kasen renku The Click of Mahjong Tiles together with the analysis of the links used to construct the renku.
Led by Lee Bentley, the group then began work on their own Junicho renku.
The meeting finished at 2 pm. Lee Bentley is considering organizing an extra meeting for those interested in renku or rengay. Interested members will be advised.
MEETINGS FOR 2013
2 November (Saturday) 11:00 am – 2:00 pm at the Box Factory
Haibun with Maeve Archibald (Box Factory booking). This will be the final meeting at the Box Factory for the year. Workshop will include 30 mins lunch break.
Lynette Arden
3 August 2013
Bindii 4 May 2013
May Haiku Workshop
The 4 May 2013 meeting of Bindii group was held at the Box Factory in Adelaide. from 12:00 to 3:00 Eleven participated, including both experienced and new haiku poets. There were also nine apologies for the meeting. The workshop was organized by Lee Bentley and Lynette Arden.
Bindii 3 February 2013
Meeting of Bindii Japanese Genre Poetry Group February 2013
In our new format for 2013 we are running three hour workshops. The first of these was a workshop on tanka given by Lynette Arden.
Burnside Library Readings
Mariko Kitakubo and Beverley George Tanka performance
International Japanese Poet
Mariko Kitakubo
&
Beverley George
presenting Japan’s oldest and most popular form of poetry
Tanka
Plus haiku and tanka read by the Bindii Japanese Genre Poetry Group
and
Japanese Flute Music performed by Munetaka Umehara
Sunday 24 March, 2.30 pm
Burnside Library (Adelaide SA)
Bookings for this free event can be made
by phone on 8366 4280
Bindii Group: November haibun workshop meeting
Nine members and visitors attended out November meeting at the Box Factory in Adelaide for a workshop on haibun presented by Maeve Archibald on 4 November 2012.
Bindii Haibun Workshop September 2012
The Bindii Group met at the Box Factory for a haibun workshop presented by Belinda Broughton. Belinda distributed notes, which included examples of haibun, and briefly discussed the origins of the form and the requirements for writing haibun, such as issues of style and tense, how many haiku should be included and what topics were suitable.
She pointed out that this is a developing form in English and that a wide variety of styles, lengths and topics are both written and published.
Australian Haiku Society 