Members of the Portarlington Haiku Society celebrated International Haiku Poetry Day by hanging their ‘serviette haiku’ along a wire fence leading into town from the pier, capturing the attention of those arriving from Melbourne on the daily ferry. The group met at a local cafe for lunch before securing their prepared material serviettes with staples along the fence line.
The PHS continue to run their own monthly kukai, the results published in a regular newsletter, ‘Wingspan’.
Summer, February
Cloudcatchers Ginko No. 76 was held in Pop Denison Park, Ballina and as a Virtual Ginko. Norma Watts and Laurel Astle were at the park, while Angela Smith, Vivien Royston, Quendryth Young, and Robyn Braithwaite participated virtually.
Continue reading “Cloudcatchers GINKO No. 76”On Wednesday, 19 February, eight poetically minded people met at the WA Museum, Boola Bardip, in Perth. Sitting between the original heritage building and the new glass addition of the museum, we enjoyed a morning of haiku.
Led by Coral Carter and Rose van Son, we began by considering the idea of the ‘pause’ as a moment to stop and observe and then make that observation concrete in words. It was a beautiful, not too hot, morning and after a bit of discussion and some readings, we separately went in search of haiku.
The eight were Rose van Son, Coral Carter, Pat Johnson, Rita Tognini, Madeleine Tingey, Neil Pattinson, Ruari Jack Hughes, and Gary De Piazzi.
20th February 2025
Jan Dobb, Glenys Ferguson, Hazel Hall, Kathy Kituai, Marietta McGregor and Gregory Piko gathered @ The Oaks café for our first meeting of the year. There was lots of sunshine and good cheer as we caught up on recent happenings before launching into a range of haiku matters.
Continue reading “Haiku @ The Oaks, Canberra”Welcome to our first news for 2025.
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The executive committee met on 10th February. We reviewed activities over the last months of 2024 and discussed some initiatives for this year.
Summer meeting report
The White Pebbles Haiku Group has been meeting once every season for the past seven years at the splendid Gosford/Edogawa Commemorative Garden. For our summer ginko on Saturday 14th December, Beverley George (founder and convener), Michael Thorley, Kent Robinson, Maire Glacken and Samantha Sirimanne Hyde caught up first at the Art Centre’s café. We missed members Marilyn Humbert, Gwen Bitti, Colleen Keating and Pip Griffin who had sent in their apologies.
Continue reading “White Pebbles Haiku Group”Since the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar in 1873, the New year is counted as a brief season on its own In Japanese Saijiki. The New Year period in Japan is a time for family gatherings with festive meals over several days. There are many traditions and observances that appear as kigo, including decorations, cards, gifts, games and special food, as well as numerous kigo with the first of something, such as first sunrise. While we may not follow kigo in our Australian haiku, we do write poems that reflect the festive season of family and social gatherings, celebratory meals and other traditions, as well as marking new beginnings and reflecting on the past year.
Continue reading “December 2024 Members’ News”27 November 2024
Just a few days shy of our official Summer, Carol Reynolds, Ros Pitt, Alison Miller, Pat Meredith and Margaret Mahony met at Oatley RSL. We missed Rita Potente who was unavailable but welcomed new member Kathleen Ann.
Continue reading “Illawong Haiku Group Summer Meeting”
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