Entries for the 22nd International Kusamakura Haiku Competition in Kumamoto are open until September 11th 2017. Applicants may submit 2 previously unpublished haiku by mail or via the online submission page. For further details please visit the website. Awarded haiku from previous years may also be read here.
Report on Bindii Japanese Genre Poetry Group meeting: 3 June 2017
Ten members of the Bindii group attended a tanka workshop led by Dawn Colsey and Lynette Arden at the Box Factory, 59 Regent St South, Adelaide.
Lee Bentley, as chair of the meeting, welcomed the presenters at 12.30.
Some written material had been distributed to members by email prior the meeting and links to further articles are displayed on Bindii Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1150474291637982/
Several members brought in a range of journals and books containing tanka, so all could share a range of published work. Continue reading “Report on Bindii Japanese Genre Poetry Group meeting: 3 June 2017”
Prior Notification of AHS Winter Solstice Haiku String on ‘Place’.
The Australian Haiku Society will be holding a Haiku String during the day of the Southern Hemisphere Winter Solstice, which occurs in Sydney NSW on Wednesday, 21 June 2017 at 2:24 pm AEST. We will keep the string open for contributions until Friday, 23 June at 2.24 pm AEST to accommodate international poets who may wish to take part. Continue reading “Prior Notification of AHS Winter Solstice Haiku String on ‘Place’.”
Members’ News May 2017
With May behind us, the southern hemisphere autumn now heads towards winter while across the equator spring moves toward summer; so the world turns. Wherever you are we hope May has been an enjoyable month for you as we look forward to a creatively productive June.
Groups and Gatherings
Jan Dobb reminds us that Canberra’s autumn this year is more stunning than ever. You can catch up on the latest news and revisit the most recent gathering of Haiku@theOaks here.
A Haiku Workshop – Guidelines for writing haiku by Quendryth Young
A beautiful new guide to writing haiku is now available for free download from the Sydney School of Arts & Humanities.
Written by the Australian haiku writer Quendryth Young, A Haiku Workshop is a comprehensive collection of succinct guidelines to writing English-language haiku – backed up with examples from Quendryth’s own extensive and award-winning body of work.
Quendryth has agreed to share her guidelines in e-brochure form to “spread the message, spread the joy, spread the elation . . . of living with senses wide open to the environment, in order to capture significant moments of observation with concision and resonance”.
Continue reading “A Haiku Workshop – Guidelines for writing haiku by Quendryth Young”
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