Category: Members

Members’ News – December 2025

  1. President’s Message – Reflecting on Haiku Musings
  2. Publications
    1. Dr Grant Caldwell has contributed a 20-page chapter on haiku for the De Gruyter Handbook of Poetic Forms.
    2. Soft, a book of haiku by Robyn Cairns, launched in Footscray.
  3. New group forming in Brisbane
  4. Latest Haiku String books
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White Pebbles Haiku Group

Winter Ginko and Meeting June 2025

After a relaxing chat over coffee in the cafe at the Gosford/Edogawa Commemorative Gardens we broke off and wandered into the main area of the gardens for individual meditation. The day was perfectly still with not a movement in the bushes near me, only a lonely butterfly making its wobbly way through the crisp morning.

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Illawong Haiku Group Winter Ginko

Eleven of us gathered on 3rd June at Hurstville Museum and Gallery to view  ‘Focus: Australian Photographer’s Exhibition’;  Alison Miller, Rita Potente, Kathleen Ann, Patricia Meredith, Margaret Mahony and six guests. Carol Reynolds and Ros Pitt were unable to attend.
After a welcome by Katrina, our library host, we enjoyed morning tea.

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Cloudcatchers GINKO No. 77

Autumn, Shark Bay, Evans Head

The Cloudcatchers Group met for our autumn ginko on Thursday 29th May
and were blessed with a lovely sunny day. This was spent at a site new to us, at Shark Bay, Evans Head. The gathering comprised Laurel Astle, Robyn Braithewaite, Norma Watts and Quendryth Young, with visitors Richard Watts and Garry Glover.

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WA Paperbark celebrates World Haiku Day 17th April 2025

Realising World Haiku Day was suddenly upon us, an event was organised to celebrate. A group of thirteen interested haiku writers gathered at the Maylands Library, Western Australia, and presented three of their favourite haiku and an explanation why the haiku were loved. Discussions followed.

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Members’ News – May 2025

  1. President’s Message
  2. Achievements
  3. Winter Solstice Haiga contest coming soon
  4. Editorial Opportunity
  5. Selections from the AHS Autumn Equinox 2020 Haiku String

President’s Message

Learning of the passing of a fellow haiku poet always brings sadness, but often there are also happy memories of favourite poems they’ve penned, encouragement they’ve offered or their generous service to the haiku community. So it is for many who knew Cynthia Rowe, as attested by the recently posted tributes.

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