20th February 2025
Jan Dobb, Glenys Ferguson, Hazel Hall, Kathy Kituai, Marietta McGregor and Gregory Piko gathered @ The Oaks café for our first meeting of the year. There was lots of sunshine and good cheer as we caught up on recent happenings before launching into a range of haiku matters.
Continue reading “Haiku @ The Oaks, Canberra”The 8th Gadigal Ginko took place on Wednesday 26th February 2025, with five participants. First-timers Julie Thorndyke and Anita Xian joined two regulars, Carol Reynolds and Margaret Mahony, and convenor, Leanne Mumford. We travelled by ferry from Circular Quay westward under the Harbour Bridge to Wareamah – Cockatoo Island. Thanks to its varied history, this island, located where the Parramatta River meets Sydney Harbour, has much to offer poets.
Continue reading “Report on Gadigal Ginko, Summer 2025”This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is New South Wales poet, Margaret Conley.
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This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is Melbourne poet, Robbie Coburn.
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Welcome to our first news for 2025.
Have you entered the third John Bird Dreaming Award yet?
The executive committee met on 10th February. We reviewed activities over the last months of 2024 and discussed some initiatives for this year.
This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is South Australian poet, Julia Wakefield.
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Recently DucK&dASh p0etry announced the results of their first Anti Haiku Competition, open to residents of Western Australia. The competition, which closed on 5th January 2025, received 76 entries from 19 poets. In keeping with the competition title, submissions that experimented beyond traditional or contemporary haiku form were encouraged. The competition was aimed at lovers of haiku who would embrace the challenge, as well as poets who had never written anything haiku before.
Continue reading “Anti Haiku Competition hosted by DucK&dASh p0etry, WA”This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is Western Australian poet, Fiona Evans.
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Australian Haiku Society 