Category: Current Events

Haiku at the Spoken Word Exhibition by h.ART at The Lobethal Fringe Event

h.ART are pleased to announce their inaugural Fringe exhibition event at the exciting new emerging arts venue at the State Heritage Onkaparinga Woollen Mill in Lobethal from 4 -19 March, 2017.
The focus is on the power of text and visual language to create dialogue.

HAIKU DAY ON 5 MARCH

Commencing Sunday, 5 March from 1.00 – 3.00 pm a Haiku Workshop conducted by Julia Wakefield-Houghton Printmaker, Illustrator and Teacher, followed by Haiku readings by members of Haiku Bindi, Belinda Broughton, Lyn Arden, Jill Gower and Maeve Archibald.

A short introduction to the rules and how we can break them will be followed by a series of writing exercises. Hopefully a few original haiku will result! Julia is a member of the only SA poetry group dedicated to writing Japanese style poetry in English.

Participation in the Haiku Workshop is by gold coin donation.
Bookings arranged by contacting Anne Griffiths on 0431 374 616.

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Roberta Beary Visiting Australia

Roberta Beary, The Roving Haiku Foundation Ambassador for 2017, will be arriving in  Australia on 1st March after a successful trip to New Zealand where she met many NZ haiku poets.  Roberta will be heading first to Sydney and also has plans to visit Tasmania and Melbourne.  If you would like to contact her, please get in touch via her Facebook page or email her at shortpoems@gmail.com 

http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2017/01/13/our-roving-ambassador/

Vanessa Proctor

Jane Reichhold (1937-2016)

Many Australian haiku and tanka poets will be deeply saddened to read of the death of Jane Reichhold, an inspirational and generous scholar, translator, writer and publisher of all Japanese short forms. Jane’s death was reported on AHA, the haiku and other forms forum she founded in 2006. The announcement was made there on August 5th, though it appears she may have died a week ago. Her contribution in this field has been enormous and she will be very greatly missed. There are many Australian haiku and tanka writers whose work she has prompted, encouraged and informed.
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Vale Lesley Walter

Lesley Walter, valued member of the Red Dragonflies, sadly passed away on 21st May. Lesley came from a background of mainstream poetry where she was a very well-respected poet.  With this grounding, she brought a fresh and innovative spirit to haiku.  She had a wonderful sense of humour and was  rigorous both in her questioning of haiku ‘rules’  and in her comments on others’ work.  The group greatly appreciated her frankness.  We will miss her poetry, her insight and her friendship.

Vanessa Proctor

blue-sky day
the way that little girl skipped
when her mum said yes

Lesley Walter