Congratulations to André Surridge for taking out the inaugural first prize of $A350 with ‘evening breeze’ – from which the anthology from the contest takes its title. We also congratulate the runner-up, Sandra Simpson and, Chen-ou Liu for taking third prize.
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Paper Wasp Jack Stamm Haiku Competition 2011
Congratulations to Cynthia Rowe, Jo McInerney and Ron Moss for winning First, Second and Thrid prizes respectively in the 2011 Paper Wasp Jack Stamm Haiku Competition. The successful haiku in order from first to third were:
tree-lined stream
the falcon rowing
through air
holding the warmth
of the afternoon sun
dandelion ridge
simmering rhubarb
mother plays ragtime
on broken keys
While the Jack Stamm Award has over the years become a valued and sought after prize, Paper Wasp has announced that the 2011 competition will be the last in the series honouring, Jack Stamm, the Japan-based American beat generation haiku poet who was part of a Japanese initiative to reinvigorate Australian haiku in the late 1980s.
The 2011 Jack Stamm Anthology therefore reproduces all the prize winning haiku dating back to the first competition in 1999.
Paper Wasp has also announced that it will honour Australia’s greatest haiku poet, the late Janice M Bostok, with a new international haiku award – further details will be available in the coming months.
2011 Polish Haiku Competition: Results
A hearty congratulations to our own Australian Haiku Society President, Cynthia Rowe, who has taken out first prize in the 2011 Polish International Haiku Competition. You can read Cynthia’s haiku in English, and translated into Polish, at the links below. Cynthia’s haiku is presented together with comments from the competition’s Final Judge, Jane Reichhold. The competition attracted entries from 41 countries including 14 writers from Australia.
Kusamakura Haiku Competition 2011
Congratulations to Beverley George on winning Second Prize in the Foreign Language Category of the 16th Kusamakura International Haiku Competition 2011. The judges for the competition were Morio Nishikawa (Professor emeritus at Kumamoto University), and Richard Gilbert (Associate Professor at Kumamoto University ).
City of Perth Library Haiku Competition Results 2011
Thank you very much to all the Haiku entrants!
All entries will be on display in the Library 29th August – 10th September
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Kaji Aso Studio’s International Haiku Contest 2011
Congratulations to Beverley George who won second prize in the Kaji Aso Studio’s 2011 haiku competition. The Kaji Aso Studio is located in Boston, USA, and offers experience in the visual arts, music, poetry, philosophy and Japanese culture. The competition results can be found at:
3rd Yamadera Bashō Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest
There was a strong Australian contribution to the contest this year as highlighted by Professor Oba in his report shown below. Hearty congratulations to Pamela Smith for winning the grand prize in the foreign country section and to Nathalie Buckland for her distinguished work prize. Their poems in English and Japanese can be seen at:
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Paper Wasp Jack Stamm Haiku Competition 2010
Congratulations to Dawn Bruce and Jo McInerney for winning joint first prize in the latest Paper Wasp Jack Stamm Haiku Competition.
Dawn’s winning haiku was:
moonrise
a flow of shadows
along the river
While Jo’s haiku was:
bare hills
the horizon looped
between post and wire
As Jacqui Murray says in her introduction to the Jack Stamm Anthology, ‘Both haiku have an elegant but non-obtrusive complexity that throws up one image whilst inviting more’.
Congratulations also to Jan Dobb for her lovely haiku that was awarded third prize:
spilling
from the sound of thunder
a rain drop
Greg Piko
Secretary
HaikuOz
Australian Haiku Society 