Salisbury Writers’ Festival Haiga Competition
The Salisbury Writers’ Festival is on again this year on the weekend of August 27 and so is the popular haiga poetry art exhibition and competition.
MAY 14, 2010
Friendly Street Poets haiku & habun Workshop
Friendly Street Poets
friendlystreetpoets.org.au
Haiku & Haibun Workshop
Where: The Box Factory 59 Regent Street South, Adelaide
When: Saturday 5t h June 2 – 4.30pm
Writer and experienced teacher Martina Taeker (past Haiku Oz
SA representative) will present a workshop which examines these
two highly popular, but often misunderstood forms of Japanese
Poetry. If you are starting out you will be given easy explanations
and examples, enabling you to begin writing. If you are already
writing you are invited to bring work to class for expert help and
advice in editing and developing your craft.
Cost: $20 concession & FS Poets members / $25 waged
Cost includes a delicious afternoon tea
Forms will be available at the Workshop for the
FSP Haiku & Haibun competition 2010
APRIL 26, 2010
SA news
Good news from South Australia that Friendly Street Poets intend convening
a haiku competition again this year.
Watch this space for details when available.
FEBRUARY 15, 2009
JAPANESE POETRY SEMINAR with Martina Taeker
Writer, poet and Haiku Oz SA representative Martina Taeker, is running a seminar on Japanese Poetry.
She will be focussing on :
TANKA & TANKA SEQUENCE.
WHEN : Saturday 21st February
2 – 4.30pm
WHERE: SA Writers’ Centre 2nd floor Boardroom
East Rundle Street
(old Malcolm Reid building, entry via Cafe Brunelli)
COST : $25 concession/ $30 which includes a delicious afternoon tea
Come along on the day & pay
or ring 08-8362 8704 and book your place
There will be a competition announced at the Seminar which will have both monetary prizes and publication oportunities
Friendly Street Poets Inc.
PO Box 3697
Norwood SA 5067
Haiga Workshop at Kensington & Norwood Writers Group
On the evening of 26 November 2008 Allison Millcock, the haiga editor of Lynx online magazine, presented a workshop on haiga to the Kensington & Norwood Writers Group. This also attracted the attention of other haiku poets and a number of them attended the meeting.Showing examples of her work via a PowerPoint presentation, Allison outlined various computer graphics techniques that she had used in making her images and described the ways of combining haiku with appropriate graphics. Successful combinations include link and shift (indirectly relating the text to the image), show rather than tell, and leading the eye from one point to the next. Her detailed presentation also described the use of borders and mats and the selection of appropriate fonts and signatures.
Allison distributed printed information about the techniques she used and the programs she used, which gave a valuable resource to those who attended. The handout also contains information on avenues for publication of haiga, both in print and online. Most avenues for publication of haiga in colour are in Internet magazines, because of the cost of printing in colour. It should be noted that Kensington & Norwood Writers Group regularly includes some black and white haiga, produced by members of the group, in their publication Writers on Parade.
We hope that this presentation will lead more South Australian writers of haiku to attempt work in this genre. Thank you Allison for your professional and inspiring presentation.
Allison Millcock has published a book of haiga called pausing for a moment.
Lynette Arden on behalf of Martina Taeker, HaikuOz SA representative.
Matsuri on Mobara – report by Martina Taeker
On Sunday October 26th, the Matsuri on Mobara was held to celebrate the relationship of Salisbury, SA, with its sister city Mobara in Japan. Cultural activities included demonstrations of martial arts, Japanese dance and music, and stalls featured origami, ikebana, calligraphy and Japanese food.
A Japanese poetry stall manned by Martina Taeker and Allison Millcock, was one of the popular attractions. The display of Allison’s haiga and Martina’s haiku scrolls drew a lot of attention. Many people were delighted to find that haiku was much more than the “boring 5-7-5 stuff” they had been taught at school. Information about Japanese poetry was also available, and bookmarks from HaikuOz, Eucalypt, and Wind Over Water were eagerly snapped up. Copies of ‘Gathering: Japanese poetry by South Australian poets’ were sold as were haiga and haiku scrolls. The level of interest the poetry stall received shows that Japanese poetry is enjoyed by people of all ages in Australia.
The announcement that the Salisbury Writers’ Festival, held in August 2009, would be running a haiga competition drew considerable attention.
Haiga is the combination of haiku and visual art. For this competition, haiga will be defined as a haiku/senryu poem (not tanka) in conjunction with a two-dimensional work of art (photograph, drawing, digital art, etc). Both must be the original work of entrants.
Prizes total $500. Entries will be displayed in the John Harvey Gallery, Salisbury, and at Wind Over Water, the 4th International Pacific Rim Haiku Conference.
Further details will be posted on the HaikuOz website when they become available in 2009, but for those of you who are interested you can get a head start on watching for haiga moments.
JULY 19, 2008
Adelaide Botanic Gardens Ginko
Adelaide Botanic Gardens Ginko
Date: Saturday 13th Sept
Time: 10.45 am.
Place: the café near the pond in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens.
Activities:
After meeting at the café at 10.45 am and a brief orientation, by Lynette Arden and Martina Taeker, there will be time for individuals to walk around the gardens or find a place to sit and soak up the surroundings while writing haiku or taking notes for later writing. After this we will gather at the café again for refreshments, and to share and write haiku.
We anticipate spending about three hours writing and enjoying haiku in the gardens. A more precise program will be decided on the day, taking into account the weather and the desires of those who attend.
Martina Taeker
Regional Representative SA
JUNE 08, 2008
Haiku and haibun in Adelaide- results of competition
More activities in Adelaide for Japanese poetry genres written in English
For results of haiku and haibun competiton, convened by Martina Taeker and others with a prize donated by Maeve Archbold visit
http://friendlystreetpoets.org.au/
full details are there
Haiku activities in South Australia
From Lynette Arden of the Kensington and Norwood Writers group comes news of small haiku workshops, a proposed ginko, and a proposed workshop on haiga by Alison Millcock.
This is a lively group of writers and it all sounds like great fun, in the spirit of sharing haiku
MARCH 29, 2008
Friendly Street Poets Inc. Japanese Poetry Competition
Friendly Street Poets Inc are running a Japanese Poetry Contest. The haiku section is restricted to residents of South Australia, but the haibun and haiku sequence sections are open to all. Closing date is May 6th 2008. For further details and an entry form visit http://friendlystreetpoets.org.au
JANUARY 27, 2008
Japanese Poetry Seminar
Friendly Street Poets Inc. is starting the 2008 seminar program with a Japanese Poetry Seminar on Saturday 16th February. Published poet and SA representative of HaikuOz, Martina Taeker, will be focussing on haiku, haiku sequence, and haibun.
Many people will already be familiar with Martina’s practical yet highly informative style of teaching and her ability to ensure that everyone enjoys themselves. Hopefully a yummy afternoon tea will also help the creative process along. The seminar will be held on Saturday 16th February, from 2 – 4.30 pm at the SA Writers Centre.
Following the seminar, Friendly Street Poets Inc will be running a competition in all three categories. Although the haiku section will be restricted to residents of SA, the haiku sequence and haibun sections will be open to poets from other states. More details about the competition will be released after the seminar.
DECEMBER 11, 2007
Congratulations – Dawn Colsey
Dawn Colsey, a South Australian writer, has won the Kaji Aso Studio “Remembrance” Poetry Contest 2007 Haibun Award, Boston USA. Dawn is a regular reader at Friendly Street Poets, a member of the Kensington & Norwood Writers Group, and belongs to Women Writing at Sophia, a feminist ecumenical women’s centre. She was first introduced to haibun at a workshop run at the South Australian Writers Centre in September 2006 by SA Regional Representative Martina Taeker. Congratulations Dawn
by Martina Taeker
Congratulations – Dawn Colsey
Dawn Colsey, a South Australian writer, has won the Kaji Aso Studio “Remembrance” Poetry Contest 2007 Haibun Award, Boston USA. Dawn is a regular reader at Friendly Street Poets, a member of the Kensington & Norwood Writers Group, and belongs to Women Writing at Sophia, a feminist ecumenical women’s centre. She was first introduced to haibun at a workshop run at the South Australian Writers Centre in September 2006 by SA Regional Representative Martina Taeker. Congratulations Dawn
by Martina Taeker
A different path from Basho’s Narrow Road
Longing for peace and calm after such a busy month, I must escape from telephone, email, meetings. Goolwa draws me: quiet country town, extensive ocean beach. At night distant lights will twinkle along the coast. Monday morning dawns, a bright day of holiday sunshine. I pack the car…
journeying…
I drive through jacaranda air
seeking stillness
The hilltop house is empty, cold, pristine though beautiful. A burst of yellow gazanias welcomes me. In the rear garden – natives in flower – Geraldton wax offers purple, and eremophila a paler mauve. In a vase these flowers give life to the solid wood of the family table. With dusk I begin to relax into the serenity of a sunset-painted sky. Darkness gathers. At night the storm breaks…
battering winds…
the house turbulent
my thoughts whirl
Can a dwelling less than five years old, even in a raging gale, be so clamorous? The gentleness of sleep is inhabited by clattering, banging, flapping. Footsteps on the stairs? The ghost of architect, builder, painter? For two nights, two days, wind and rain lash. At last the wildness ceases. Sun warms. Birds sing…
alone…
high above the wide bay
my loneliness becomes solitude
Dawn Colsey 8/3/07
JULY 07, 2007
Spinifex reviewed by Martina Taeker
Regional Rep Martina Taeker has a review of Spinifex published in the latest issue of Famous Reporter.
MARCH 28, 2007
Rain Haiku Winner
Australian haiku poet, Lynette Arden, has recently had one of her haiku selected to appear on a haiku umbrella as part of the Rain Haiku competition. Lynette’s haiku is one of only eight selected from the one thousand haiku received.
Her selected haiku:
city lunch in rain
neon lights flick colours
across the menu
HaikuOz congratulates Lynette on this fine achievement.
DECEMBER 09, 2006
Haiku and Tanka Events in South Australia
In September Regional Representative, Martina Taeker, gave a haiku workshop which was well-received by all who attended.
In November, when I was visiting Adelaide, I was privileged to be a dinner guest of the lively Kensington and Norwood Writers who have since celebrated a 20th anniversary event, attended by sixty people.
The members write in a variety of genres but were eager, along with several attendees from other groups, to explore tanka in a workshop I gave at the SA Writers Centre. The workshop considered the way in which tanka were written in the Heian Court Period in Japan over 1,000 years ago before looking at some modern examples and how to begin to write them.
I would like to thank Lynette Arden for her enthusiasm and kindness and send warm greetings to everyone who attended either or both events.
Beverley George
Editor: Eucalypt: Australia’s first literary journal dedicated to tanka www.eucalypt.info
OCTOBER 17, 2006
Tanka Workshop
South Australia Writers Centre– tanka workshop
On Thursday November 2nd, 6:30-9:30 pm, Beverley George will present a tanka workshop and is hoping to meet some HaikuOz poets there. Please contact the SA Writers Centre for further details or to make a booking.
This is the thirteenth workshop Beverley has presented this year but the first in another state. She is hoping the latter situation will change next year.
For information about tanka in Australia visit www.eucalypt.info
SEPTEMBER 09, 2006
Haiku and Tanka Workshops in Adelaide
Martina Taeker, Regional Representative for HaikuOz in South Australia, will present a workshop titled ‘The Essence of Haiku’ on 23 September 2006 from 1:30-4:30 pm at the SA Writers Centre in Adelaide.
On 2 November 2006, from 6:30-9:30 pm, Beverley George, President of HaikuOz, will present a workshop at the SA Writers Centre titled ‘Tanka: where East meets West’. Tanka is a 1300 year-old genre which is becoming increasingly popular with poets writing in English. The workshop will be limited to 15 people, to allow everyone the opportunity to participate. If interested in attending, you may wish to read in advance the foundation article, Tanka: the myriad leaves of words’ on www.eucalypt.info > Articles
JULY 03, 2006
Haiku and Visual Art: A Winter Ginko
Martina Taeker, RR for SA, recently conducted a ginko in the Art Gallery of SA and based on her experiences offers some thoughts on how a winter ginko might be conducted indoors. To read the full article go to the Haiku Musings page.
Australian Haiku Society 