Lorin Ford has made her book of haiku, ‘a wattle seedpod’ (PostPressed, 2008) available to all as a free pdf download from the The Haiku Foundation Digital Library. As well as 109 haiku, ‘a wattle seedpod’ has a cover by Ron Moss and a foreword by John Bird, founder of HaikuOz.
www.thehaikufoundation.org/omeka/items/show/175
‘a wattle seedpod’ won first prize in the 2009 HSA Mildred Kanterman Merit Book Awards, the first book by an Australian author to be awarded that honour.
A new haiga collaboration involving Beverley George, Mariko Kitakubo and Ron C. Moss can be viewed at:
http://www.haigaonline.com/issue15-1/contents.html
The previously published or awarded haiku of Australian Central Coast poet and former president of the Australian Haiku Society, Beverley George, are translated into the delicate calligraphy of Tokyo tanka poet and performer, Mariko Kitakubo, and further enhanced by the skilled and sensitive sumi-e of Tasmanian poet and artist, Ron C. Moss.
Chen-ou Liu from Toronto, Canada, has established NeverEnding Story – the first English-Chinese Bilingual Haiku and Tanka blog.
http://neverendingstoryhaikutanka.blogspot.com.au/
Apart from providing a daily blog on haiku and tanka, the site presents an anthology of haiku submitted in 2013 (Butterfly Dream), and another anthology of tanka (One Man’s Maple Moon), both of which include poems by Australian writers.
The NeverEnding Story web site provides details of how to submit haiku and tanka for inclusion in the 2014 anthologies.
MELTDOWN — an anthology of haiku, Z to A — edited by Stephen Henry Gill, HAILSTONE HAIKU CIRCLE Kansai, Winter 2013 ISBN: 978-4-9900822-5-3
You can read a review of the anthology by Beverley George below.
A beautiful video demonstration of Ron creating a haiga is featured at The Haiku Foundation, as part of its 5th anniversary celebrations:
http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2014/01/06/the-haiku-foundation-celebrates-its-fifth-anniversary/
Something for Australians to be proud of and the world to enjoy! Thank you, Ron, for all you do for Australian haiku & related forms . . . a true ambassador.
Lorin Ford – Haiku Editor, Managing Editor
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Jim Kacian interviewed Australian haiku and tanka poet, Beverley George, at Haiku Aotearoa 3 which was held in New Zealand during 2012. The video of the interview went up on The Haiku Foundation web-site on November 22nd, 2013 and can be viewed at:
Haiku Sansaar is a new online bilingual English – Hindi journal, presenting haiku and its related genres. We present the work of both international and Indian poets who are well-known among their own language groups but unknown outside it.
Submissions are welcome till 30th November. Haiku may be submitted in English. We will translate them into Hindi and present them in both languages.
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