QLD – Australian Haiku Society

Water Dragons Haiku Group: Brisbane

The Water Dragons Haiku Group met on 11 July.

Our numbers are slowly growing and we achieved our third meeting on Saturday morning, at the Brisbane Square Library.

With six people, a range of experienced haijin and relative newcomers, we looked at the function of kireji, samples of published work from various online journals and our own recent haiku. The meeting room is regularly cooled to uncomfortable levels, and this day was no exception so the extra layers we’d all brought proved very useful.

Our next meeting is August 8th, 10.30 am. There’s still room for more, so anyone interested is welcome. Just let me know on duncrich@outlook.com if you’re coming, so we can organize enough copies of haiku for everyone,

Duncan Richardson

Manna Magazine launching in December

Didier Lejeune (Gold Coast) is beginning a new literary and art magazine and is currently looking for artists and haiku poets to populate the first issue.

Last year I developed a strong appreciation for Haiku while living in a cottage in the alps, having an entire shelf full of zen poetry and haiku to occupy my time. The artform has come to mean a lot to me, and it is important that I give it ample space in the magazine.
The publication is print-only, black and white, with a focus on beauty—however this concept manifests in the mind of the artist.
I am looking for poets to contribute to this first issue, and all that will follow.

Our website is: manna magazine
Each issue will publish a handful of Haiku from one, or several, artists. Each poet is encouraged to submit 6-15 haiku.

I look forward to hearing from you,
Didier Lejeune

Queensland Poets Haiku Reading Event, 22nd April

Join us on Wednesday 22nd April from 7.30pm AEST for a Zoom reading by three experienced haiku poets from Queensland – Duncan Richardson, Jeffrey Harpeng and Vuong Pham. The programme will include a brief presentation from AHS, the planned readings and an ‘open mic’ session. The event is free and open to all interested poets to attend. Please register by 9am AEST on 22nd April to receive the Zoom link. Link for the Registration form.

There is still space in the programme for additional poets. If you are a Queensland haiku poet who would like to read your work at this event, please get in touch right away via the Contact Secretary Form.

Calling all Queensland Haiku Poets

Over coming months, the Australian Haiku Society will host online haiku readings by interested poets, from one state or territory at a time. The formal reading segment will be followed by an opportunity for informal discussion with the aim of fostering connections between poets. While poets from a particular state or territory will be reading, there will be no geographic restriction for the audience. Registrations will be required to obtain the Zoom link, however.

June 25, 2007 Report on Haiku : Sensations of a Lifetime

A two-part workshop presented by Janice Bostok

as part of the Queensland Poetry Festival 2007 Outreach programme
supported by the Brisbane City Council
and the Mt Ommaney Library

‘When the pupils are ready the teacher will come.’

Full workshops and a healthy waiting list for the two free sessions at the Mt Ommaney Library in Brisbane’s Centenary Suburbs this June 10th and 24th made it clear that plenty of people were more than ready to explore the pleasures and challenges of haiku and related forms under Janice Bostok’s gentle guidance.

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Australian Rain Rules

Haiku Oz would also like to announce the success of another Australian haiku poet, Ynes Sanz. Ynes is also one of the eight poets selected to have their haiku published on a haiku umbrella as part of the rain Haiku competition.

Her haiku:

under the thunderhead
throwing a last stick
to the dogs

Congratulations Ynes!

February 26, 2007

Book launch – haibun by Julie Beveridge

Small Change Press is proud to announce the launch of their first title for 2007, Home is where the Heartache is, a collection of haibun, by Julie Beveridge.

“Compressed energy and an unswerving courage to tell the truth about bad things gives these haibun a sharp edge – a kind of grim elegance. Journeying with Beveridge is not always comfortable but it is always compelling.”
Beverley George
President, Australian Haiku Society

Date: Friday 30 March
Time: 6:30pm
Venue: Queensland Writers Centre
Level 2, 109 Edward St, Brisbane
Tickets: $15.00 (including a signed copy of the book and glass of wine)
Bookings Essential: To book call QWC on (07) 3839 1243 or buy online at http://www.qwc.asn.au.

Words & Water Dragons – a report

This year for the first time Queensland Poetry Festival and Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt Coot-tha invited poets and poetry lovers to an informal reading of haiku and other Japanese verse forms in the the Japanese Garden.

On Saturday 19 August, a lovely spring-like morning, 20 or so people gathered for the readings.

The morning opened with a dedication and reading of the work of Barry Dangerfield, a former curator and significant force behind the gardens as they are today, who passed away late last year.

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