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Australian poets featured in Shamrock No. 33

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

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Australian poets featured in Shamrock No. 33

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

Australian haiku poets featured in January edition of ‘cattails’

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:

http://www.unitedhaikuandtankasociety.com/

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Jo McInerney’s third success with ‘re: Virals’ on the THF website

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:

http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2016/01/29/revirals-20/

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Australian haiku poets featured in January 2016 edition of ‘cattails’

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:

http://www.unitedhaikuandtankasociety.com/

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Jo McInerney chooses Janice M. Bostok haiku for new ‘re: Virals’ response

For the second time this month, Australian haiku poet Jo McInerney has been the winner of the weekly ‘re: Virals’ competition on The Haiku Foundation website: Jo’s response to a haiku by Charles Easter – ‘dry heat’ – can be found below.

In the meantime, however, Jo has again been given the chance – as the latest weekly winner – to choose a haiku to which other readers could respond: following on from her selection of Lorin Ford’s ‘cellophane’ one-liner, earlier in January, this time Jo has selected a further monostich from another Australian haiku poet, Janice M. Bostok –

envelope my thumb opens the seal of his tongue

For posting on Friday morning (Eastern US Time), responses to Janice’s one-liner would need to have been received online by midnight Tuesday (New York).

Guidelines for contributing through the THF’s Contact Box – using a subject header of ‘re: Virals’ – can be found through this link:

http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2016/01/22/revirals-19/

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Polish International Haiku Competition Fifth edition.

Hearty congratulations to Quendryth Young for gaining 2nd Place in the Fifth edition Polish International Haiku Competition 2015 with

broken glass
some of the shards
glisten

Quendryth Young
Alstonville NSW

Commended haiku include the following Australians:

harbour light show—
a little boy points out
the half-moon

Owen Bullock
Canberra

yellow blossoms
fall into a street
of yellow blossoms

Rob Woods
Darwin

View results at:
http://polish.international.competition.haiku.pl/results2015.php