Modern Haiku Press in the United States has released ‘Haiku 2015’, edited by Lee Gurga and Scott Metz, a selection of ‘100 notable ku from 2014’. Australian haiku poets represented include:
islands of ice
the moon
without an oar
– Lorin Ford, ‘frogpond’ 37:2
nightclub
entrance strobe lit
rain
– Simon Hanson, ‘DailyHaiku’ March 17
new leaves
the old forest
finds its voice
– Rob Scott, ‘A Hundred Gourds’ 3:3
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Australian poets who received Honorable Mentions in the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival – 2015 Haiku Invitational include:
snow-heavy blossoms
their hands
share a pocket
Nathalie Buckland (Nimbin, NSW)
late afternoon . . .
touching the blossom
with the tip of her cane
Jo McInerney (Boolarra, VIC)
sharing the bench
the old busker
and cherry petals
Mark Miller (Shoalhaven Heads, NSW)
sharing an umbrella
with a stranger
cherry blossom rain
Vanessa Proctor (Sydney, NSW)
blossom moon
the pregnancy line
turning to pink
Cynthia Rowe (Sydney, NSW)
A full set of results for the 8th Kokako Haiku and Senryu Competition will be published – in New Zealand – in the next edition of “Kokako”, accompanied by comments from the judge Catherine Mair.
In the meantime, the following entry by Australian haiku poet Barbara A Taylor was included among the poems rated as Commended:
in wild Kakadu
tourists take selfies
with a crocodile
The Haiku North America (HNA) 2015 Conference was held from 14-18 October at Union College, a liberal arts college founded in 1795 with a classically-inspired campus near the foothills of the Adirondacks in upper New York State. Appropriately for the setting, this year’s conference, Autumn Term was themed around the teaching and learning of haiku. After a welcome by HNA’s principal organisers Michael Dylan Welch, John Stevenson and Hilary Tann (other hard-working committee members were Yu Chang and Tom Clausen), 130 poet delegates each recited one of their own haiku/senryu.
The two Australians, Jennifer Sutherland and Marietta McGregor, along with poets who travelled from Japan and India, received a special welcome, a round of applause in appreciation of their long journeys. Jim Kacian launched proceedings with Realism is Dead, posing the question that, if haiku was no longer rooted in the real world, what might then ground it? The keynote address by Dr Randy Brooks examined some of the issues with teaching haiku in the American education system.
Australian haiku poet Cynthia Rowe has won the Grand Prize: 1st Place in the 2015 World Haiku Contest, with the following haiku:
bare branch
the wild persimmon
snow-flecked
Another entry by Cynthia was one of five haiku to gain an Honorable Mention in the same competition:
old railway track
a tumbleweed skips
through wild grass
Comments about Cynthia’s winning poem – provided by the judge for this contest, Alan Summers – can be read below:
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The Akita International Haiku Network has announced the results of its 4th Japan – Russia Haiku Contest, where poets were invited to write haiku on the theme of lakes.
From a range of international contributors, Australian haiku poets Marietta McGregor and Simon Hanson were first- and second-listed among a set of 10 entrants to receive Honourable Mentions:
a family of teals
breaches the lake ice
receding winter
– Marietta McGregor
heading home
crossing the lake
the shadows of pines
– Simon Hanson
Australian haiku poets Beverley George and Simon Hanson have been announced as successful entrants in the haiku competition that will be incorporated into the 11th Pumpkin Festival, to be held in Ivanić-Grad, Croatia, over October 18-19, 2015.
The competition – in English – had the theme of haiku about pumpkins.
Beverley George was one of four international entrants to share joint third prize, with the following haiku:
“butternut, please”
each week she orders one −
just to say their name
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Australian haiku poets have been strongly represented in the first digital anthology from “Wild Plum Haiku Journal”, called “Behind the Tree Line”.
Featuring 11 haiku written by 8 Australian haiku poets, “Behind the tree line” is a selection of 45 haiku chosen by Gabriel Sawicki from all poems published by the journal in 2015.
It can be accessed at this link:
https://wildplumhaiku.wordpress.com/2015/08/31/585/
In order of appearance, work by the following Australian haiku poets is featured in “Behind the Tree Line” – Simon Hanson, Quendryth Young and Myron Lysenko (each with two haiku selected); plus Duncan Richardson, Jade Pisani, Mark Miller, Marietta McGregor and Barbara A. Taylor (with Barbara also represented in the haiga section):
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