The 2015 Martin Lucas Haiku Award – conducted in the UK by ‘Haiku Presence’ – attracted 283 entries from 52 poets, with all three poems rated as Commended coming from Australian haiku poets:
newborn lamb
a first look towards
the stars
– Ron C Moss
full moon
she makes her butterpat
a perfect circle
– Marietta Jane McGregor
falling leaves
the open book
as you left it
– Barbara A. Taylor
Full results – with the judge’s comments – can be accessed through this link:
Australian writer Cynthia Rowe has offered her thoughts about defining what haiku is for her. Under the title ‘Concision’, it can be found on ‘The Living Haiku Anthology’ website, under ‘Poets on Haiku’, or it can be accessed directly through this link:
http://livinghaikuanthology.com/lha/defining-haiku/2920-concision-by-cynthia-rowe.html
A portfolio of Cynthia’s haiku has also been created: it can be accessed within ‘The Living Haiku Anthology’ website, through this second link:
http://livinghaikuanthology.com/poet-portfolios/324-r-poets/cynthia-rowe.html
In the latest weekly posting of the ‘re:Virals’ segment on The Haiku Foundation’s website, Australian haiku poet Jo McInerney features once again, this time through her response to the following haiku:
dry wheat grass . . .
the whiteness of
a child dying
— Robert D. Wilson, ‘A Lousy Mirror’ (2011)
As well as being reproduced here in full, below, Jo’s response can be accessed at the following link:
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Australian poet Simon Hanson has had one of his poems voted as the best haiku for the year in the Shamrock Haiku Journal Readers’ Choice Awards 2015, as just published online in Shamrock No. 33 –
window ice
the garden thaws
in sparkles
– Simon Hanson
Full details about the 2015 Shamrock Readers’ Choice Awards can be accessed through the Shamrock website:
http://shamrockhaiku.webs.com/currentissue.htm
The work of a range of other Australian haiku poets has likewise been recognised in Shamrock No. 33, especially within the IHS International Haiku Competition Results 2015, as found below, but also through this link:
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Conducted in Croatia, the Blood Donation Haiku Contest resulted in the following Australian poets having their entries recognised as Commended:
down the highway
blood cells with smiley faces
the Red Cross van
Simon Hanson
bloodline . . .
the two of us exchanging
heartbeats
Cynthia Rowe
Australian poet Simon Hanson has had one of his poems voted as the best haiku for the year in the Shamrock Haiku Journal Readers’ Choice Awards 2015, as just published online in Shamrock No. 33 –
window ice
the garden thaws
in sparkles
– Simon Hanson
Full details about the 2015 Shamrock Readers’ Choice Awards can be accessed through the Shamrock website:
http://shamrockhaiku.webs.com/currentissue.htm
The work of a range of other Australian haiku poets has likewise been recognised in Shamrock No. 33, especially within the IHS International Haiku Competition Results 2015, as found below, but also through this link:
http://irishhaiku.webs.com/haikucompetition.htm
Presented in alphabetical order, the following poems by Australian haiku poets gained Honourable Mentions in last year’s Irish Haiku Society haiku contest, as recently published in Shamrock Haiku Journal No. 33:
thunderheads
a cowrie’s mantle
purple-flushed
– Marietta McGregor
empty ocean
the shearwater’s belly
catches the sun
– Greg Piko
winter’s afternoon
a golden pheasant weaves
through bamboo
– Cynthia Rowe
sunset valley
a line of merinos
melds into the gold
– Barbara A. Taylor
A range of Australian haiku poets have been included in the latest edition of the ‘cattails’ haiku journal (from the UHTS), including the following three, whose work has been featured among the Editor’s Choices:
only the moon
privy to a possum’s
tightrope walk
– Madhuri Pillai
outer suburb
the length of a dog’s
weekday voice
– Jan Dobb
first spring day
birdsong unravels
my knitting
– Hazel Hall
The Editor’s commentary accompanying these three haiku can be accessed through the following link, as can the text for Marietta McGregor’s haibun ‘The Ten Millennium Tree’, winner of second prize in the UHTS haibun contest:
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For the third time this month, Australian haiku poet Jo McInerney has been honoured by having her response chosen as the winner in the ‘re: Virals’ segment on The Haiku Foundation website. Jo’s evaluation of Janice M. Bostok’s ‘envelope’ monoku can be found below, preceded by another commentary from fellow Australian haiku poet Marietta McGregor.
As the weekly winner of ‘re: Virals’, Jo has chosen the following haiku for comment:
dry wheat grass . . .
the whiteness of
a child dying
— Robert D. Wilson, ‘A Lousy Mirror’ (2011)
For posting on Friday morning (Eastern US Time) – as before – responses to Robert D. Wilson’s haiku must be received online by midnight Tuesday (New York time). Contributors need to submit through the THF’s Contact Box – using a subject header of “re: Virals” – with guidelines available through this link:
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