A new anthology of Haiku-in-English, edited by Jim Kacian and published by WW Norton & Co, contains a good selection of haiku by Australian and New Zealand haiku poets. Some of those represented are Janice M. Bostok, Greg Piko, Lorin Ford, Ron Moss, Graham Nunn, Sandra Simpson, Ernest J. Berry, Patricia Prime and the late Cyril Childs.
Category: Haiku Books and Reviews
Evening in the Plaza by Jeffrey Woodward: A Review
Below is a review by Cynthia Rowe of Jeffrey Woodward’s new collection of haiku and haibun.
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Under the Basho
Under the Basho – a new haiku journal
Under the Basho will be published twice a year and welcomes haiku of five different styles: Traditional Haiku; Stand-Alone Hokku; Modern Haiku, One-Line Haiku, and, Concrete Haiku (Architectural).
Submission deadlines are August 15th for the September Issue and February 15th for our March Issue.
All submission information and details are posted on our website/journal: http://www.underthebasho.com . If there are any questions, please click the “Contact Us” button for direct email to us. Please let me know if you need anything else.
Don Baird
Danish Haiku Today 2012: A Review
Hanne Hansen, Chairman of the Haiku Group of the Danish Authors’ Society, recently provided the Australian Haiku Society with a copy of Danish Haiku Today 2012. Below is a short review of the anthology, written by Greg Piko
Member publication – A bird-loving man: haiku and tanka.
Rodney Williams has just published a selection of his work in Japanese short forms, entitled A bird-loving man: haiku and tanka. Interspersed throughout the text are linocut illustrations by Gippsland artist Helen Timbury, who also designed the front cover. Available through the Ginninderra Press website, the book is priced at $22 RRP (plus postage and handling).
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With Cherries on Top: Free Online Haiku Book
Press Here is pleased to announce that With Cherries on Top: 31 Flavors from NaHaiWriMo is now available for free download. This anthology, edited by Michael Dylan Welch, features 190 haiku and senryu by 79 worldwide contributors to the National Haiku Writing Month (NaHaiWriMo) page on Facebook.
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EVENING BREEZE – the anthology of the inaugural Janice M Bostok haiku award
A review
It struck the entire Australian haiku community as a fitting mark of respect when paper wasp announced its new prize – the Janice M Bostok haiku award – as a replacement for the Jack Stamm Haiku Award, for years our pre-eminent haiku competition. If she were able to read Evening Breeze – the anthology of finalists for the inaugural contest bearing her name – surely Janice herself could only be delighted.
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Breath: haiku by Sandra Simpson
Sandra Simpson has published her first collection of haiku. Details are at the following web site:
http://breathhaiku.wordpress.com/
The first peer review of Breath is also available. If you’d like to read it, please go here:
Australian Haiku Society 