Category: Members’ News

Competition Successes in November

Australian haiku poets to enjoy competition-based successes during the month of November, 2016, included: Cynthia Rowe for winning second prize in the Katikati Pathway Haiku Contest 2016 (NZ) – Cynthia herself, plus Joanne Watcyn-Jones and Jan Dobb, were each Commended in the same competition as well.

In the same time period, another Australian haiku poet – Quendryth Young – won second prize in the 21st International Kusamakura Haiku Competition in Japan.

Congratulations to Cynthia, Joanne, Jan and Quendryth for all having their work recognised at a competition level during the month of November.

Rodney Williams
Secretary
Australian Haiku Society

Competition successes in October

Australian haiku poets to enjoy competition-based successes during the month of October, 2016, included: Janet Howie, Barbara A. Taylor, Simon Hanson and Cynthia Rowe.
Between them, Janet and Barbara took out the two Grand Prizes conferred in the Basho Festival Haiku Contest, in Japan: Barbara also gained an Honourable Mention in the 5th Japan – Russia Haiku Contest for 2016 (English section).
Simon Hanson likewise enjoyed multiple successes in the last month – he not only gained an Honourable Mention in the Basho Festival Haiku Contest: his collection – entitled Desert Stones – was also selected for the Snapshot Press eChapbook Awards 2016.
Rounding out competition-based successes for Australian haiku poets in the month of October, Cynthia Rowe’s haiku collection Floating Nest was awarded First Prize in the poetry category in The Society of Women Writers (NSW) Book Awards 2016.
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Competition successes in September

Competition-based successes enjoyed by Australian haiku poets during the month of September, 2016, included:

Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Contest, Canada (International section): Winner (First Prize) – Jan Dobb; Honourable Mentions – Vanessa Proctor & Tanvi Velankar;

European Quarterly Kukai #15, Autumn 2016 Edition (topic: sounds): Second Place – Cynthia Rowe;

Ivanić Grad 12th Pumpkin Festival International Haiku Competition (Croatia): Second Prize – Samantha Sirimanne Hyde; Honourable Mentions – Lorin Ford, Scott Thouard & Quendryth Young;

Living Haiku Anthology Haiku Competition:  Honourable Mention – Lorin Ford.

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Quendryth Young: Winner – 2016 NZPS Haiku Competition

Link: http://www.poetrysociety.org.nz/2016competitionresults

Opening of Judge’s Report by Cynthia Rowe

“I was delighted to be asked to judge the Haiku section of the 2016 NZPS International Poetry Competition.  A challenging but rewarding task. From 602 entries, over two-thirds were rejected as unpublishable, lacking a basic knowledge of haiku, and therefore unable to be considered. A number of poems failed to make the shortlist due to shortcomings which included an overreliance on adjectives and adverbs, anthropomorphism, ‘lists’, double entendre, aphorisms, rhetorical questions, too many syllables, jokes, jingles, and hackneyed descriptions which led to prosaic imagery.”
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Bob Jones’s “Haiku Nature” on THF

 

Bob Jones’s instructive and accessible PhD dissertation “Haiku Nature”, most chapters of which were published over six years in Modern Haiku, is now available as a download from The Haiku Foundation’s Digital Library. It can be accessed at http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/omeka/items/show/2361

You can also view some of Bob’s thoughts on karumi in haiku, reposted from the HaikuOz archives, in Haiku Musings.

Robyn Cairns launches chapbook ‘In Transit’

Victorian haiku poet Robyn Cairns held a very successful launch for her new chapbook In Transit (Ginninderra Press) at the Dancing Dog Café in Footscray – in the heart of Melbourne’s industrial west – on Sunday, 17 July.

As diverse as it was engaging, the launch featured Robyn’s readings of her poetry, as well as musical interpretations of her poems on clarinet, all enhanced by haiga she has likewise created.
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Australians in 8th Yamadera Basho Haiku Contest 2016

Seventeen Australian haiku poets have had their work included in results from the Eighth Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest.

Full results – as released in July – can be viewed through this link:

http://samidare.jp/basho/box/8th%20ybmm%20english%20haiku%20contest.pdf
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