On a sunny Canberra autumn Thursday 13th March, a smaller group of haiku poets than usual met for lunch and discussions under the trees at The Oaks Brasserie, Yarralumla. Around the table were Hazel Hall, Kathy Kituai, Greg Piko and Marietta McGregor. Glenys Ferguson and Jan Dobb were unable to attend and their enthusiastic participation was missed this time. Talk at first turned to poetry in general, with reminiscences about first moments of reading work to an audience, sometimes many years ago in individuals’ writing lives, and the feelings engendered on those occasions.
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Portarlington Haiku Society celebrates International Haiku Poetry Day
Members of the Portarlington Haiku Society celebrated International Haiku Poetry Day by hanging their ‘serviette haiku’ along a wire fence leading into town from the pier, capturing the attention of those arriving from Melbourne on the daily ferry. The group met at a local cafe for lunch before securing their prepared material serviettes with staples along the fence line.
The PHS continue to run their own monthly kukai, the results published in a regular newsletter, ‘Wingspan’.
Paperbark Haiku Autumn Ginko
The Haiku Ginko to celebrate autumn was held in Hyde Park, Perth on Wednesday 2nd April. It was a beautiful warm day with a cool breeze, perfect for the morning walk. Ten people attended the session led by Coral Carter and Rose van Son.
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This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is Stella Damarjati.
winter dusk
the passing shadow
of a solitary crow
the absence
of birdsong
forest walk
winter’s end
the radiant blossom
of the golden wattle
Fringe Myrtles bend the senses: Report on the Fringe Myrtles Meeting March, 2025
The first Fringe Myrtles meeting for 2025 was held on Sunday 16 March. Ten Myrtles braved the torrential rain (following a 33-degree day—classic Melbourne weather!) to gather at our haiku home, the beautiful Athenaeum Theatre Library.
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Cloudcatchers Spring Ginko No. 75
7 November 2024
Cloudcatchers’ Spring Ginko was held at Victoria Park, Dalwood NSW (near Alstonville). This was the group’s tenth visit to this magical location on the far north coast. It is a remnant of sub-tropical jungle, part of the Big Scrub, and once home of the Widjabul people of the Bundjalung nation. Here there is a vast array of forest flora and a great variety of insect and birdlife. Some of us did hear a distant thud-thud of a pademelon, but none were sighted. We viewed a giant scrub turkey nest extending over the boardwalk, and spied a yellow robin and its nest, believed to be an indicator of a healthy forest environment.
Continue reading “Cloudcatchers Spring Ginko No. 75”Report on the Fringe Myrtles Meeting October, 2024
The Fringe Myrtles met on Sunday 20th October at the Melbourne Athenaeum Library. In attendance were Rodney Williams, Robbie Coburn, Takanori Hayakawa, Louise Hopewell, Olivia Ark and Rob Scott.
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Featured Haiku – Under the Same Moon (Australian Haiku Anthology)
This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is Melbourne poet, Jennifer Sutherland.
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