Category: Bindii Japanese Genre Poetry Group

Report on the Bindii Meeting of 15 October 2023

Four members of the Bindii Group gathered for a Zoom meeting at approximately 2pm Australian Central Standard Time: Steve Wigg, Julia Wakefield, Stella Damarjati and Lynette Arden. Apologies were received from Maureen Sexton and Maeve Archibald.

We had arranged to bring some haiku on the theme of ageing or time passing, but all of us had been over busy – how often people seem to be saying that these days! – so we had very little to show each other.  Stella, Lynette and Julia submitted their haiku that had already been accepted for Echidna Tracks, so there were no improvements offered, but the topics sparked a lively discussion about the images that were evoked.

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Report on the Bindii Meeting of 6 August 2023

Four members of the Bindii Group gathered for a Zoom meeting at 3 pm Australian Central Standard Time: Steve Wigg, Julia Wakefield, Stella Damarjati and Lynette Arden. Apologies were received from Maureen Sexton and Maeve Archibald.

Julia reported that she had had discussions with three other AHS groups about possible future collaborations.

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Report on the Bindii Meeting of 17 June 2023

Four members of the Bindii Group gathered for a Zoom meeting at 3 pm Australian Central Standard Time: Steve Wigg, Maureen Sexton, Maeve Archibald and Lynette Arden.

Apologies were received from Julia Wakefield, Stella Damarjati, Kaarin Wilkinson and Subha Goonaratne.

After exchanging greetings and comments about the wintry weather in Adelaide and Perth, we discussed some ideas about haiku structure. Although the Matsuyama Declaration freed Western haiku from the constraints of season words and kireji (break in the haiku), most Western haiku still use a break in the structure rather than consist of a single sentence. The more radical haiku sometimes only contain a single word. Members felt that the haiku idea needed to resonate with the reader, which was the most essential element of the haiku.

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Report on Bindii Meeting April 2023

On 15 April 2023 Stella, Lynette, Steve, Subha, Maeve, and I met for our usual Zoom meeting. We received apologies from Maureen and Kaarin.

We workshopped a few of our own haiku both for the AHS meeting on 17 April and on the topic of childhood. Lyn drew our attention to the ‘movie technique’ in haiku, which moves the reader from a long shot in the first line to a close-up in the third line.

Some of us were able to attend the AHS meeting, and there was a discussion at the end on the idea of different groups meeting up on Zoom. We said we were open as a group to having visitors from other groups at our meetings.

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Bindii Meeting report for February 11 2023

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.

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Bindii Meeting report for November 26 2022

Stella, Lynette, Maureen and I met for our usual Zoom meeting. We received apologies from Steve, Kaarin and Maeve. Some of us had attempted haiku using the ideas promoted in Michael Dylan Welch’s Haiku on Steroids paper that was published online during the 2022 Haiku down Under online conference. After discussing the merits of radical experimentation, we tried writing a spontaneous haiku sequence, taking turns to write each line.

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