Category: Members’ News

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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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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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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Submissions for Catchment 4 due by 21st May

A big thank you goes out to all AHS members who have already offered contributions to the fourth edition of Catchment – Poetry of Place!
 
With submissions set to close on 21st May 2025, other Australian poets are encouraged to send in new work which shows a sense of location. 

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Haiku @ The Oaks

On a sunny Canberra autumn Thursday 13th March, a smaller group of haiku poets than usual met for lunch and discussions under the trees at The Oaks Brasserie, Yarralumla. Around the table were Hazel Hall, Kathy Kituai, Greg Piko and Marietta McGregor. Glenys Ferguson and Jan Dobb were unable to attend and their enthusiastic participation was missed this time. Talk at first turned to poetry in general, with reminiscences about first moments of reading work to an audience, sometimes many years ago in individuals’ writing lives, and the feelings engendered on those occasions.

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