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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The AHS is delighted to welcome two new committee members. Simon Hanson joined us in June as joint Regional Representative for Queensland and has undertaken the job of selecting and posting our Featured Haiku every week. Jan Dobb joined us this month as our very first Regional Representative for the ACT. For further information please visit our Committee page.
Vanessa Proctor
Jo McInerney has chosen the following poem by a fellow Australian haiku poet – Quendryth Young – for discussion in re: Virals 45 during this coming week on The Haiku Foundation website:
mosquito
a stranger’s blood
on my hand
– Quendryth Young, Wollumbin Haiku Workshop NSW (2007)
A haiku by AHS member Lorin Ford has been voted equal second in the Presence # 54 ‘Best-of-issue Award’. Her prize is two free issues of Presence (with results in Presence #55, June 2016):
migrating eels
the warp and the weave
of creek water
AHS member Madhuri Pillai has had two poems selected as haiku of merit, each in different sections of the June 2016 edition of World Haiku Review (magazine of World Haiku Club):
https://sites.google.com/site/worldhaikureview2/june-2016
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A poem by AHS member Lyn Reeves has been selected as a haiku of merit in the Shintai section of the June 2016 edition of World Haiku Review (magazine of World Haiku Club):
lowering sun—
in its glow
a lacework of leaves
Melbourne-based haiku poet Robyn Cairns will be holding a launch of her new chapbook In Transit at the Dancing Dog Café (42A Albert Street, Footscray – phone: 03 – 9689 2566), between 2.00 p.m.-5.00 p.m. on Sunday, 17 July. All are welcome. Please RSVP to Robyn at rbcairns@gmail.com ASAP.
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An entry by Australian haiku poet Rodney Williams has been Commended in the 2015 Little Haiku Contest, as judged by Jim Kacian for the Three Rivers Haiku Association in Croatia. Continue reading “Rodney Williams – Commended in Croatia”
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