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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Eucalypt: a tanka journal eNews February 2025 is now online, including the distinctive Scribble Award winners from issue 37.
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This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is Mark Miller, who resides in Shoalhaven, on the south coast of New South Wales.
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This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is New South Wales poet, Nathalie Buckland.
charred forest—
the ultrasound
of my new grandchild
the butcher bird
checks for grubs—
swaddled baby
sandcastle –
an old man and a child
discuss design
father’s access day
a wind takes the petals
too soon
– Nathalie Buckland
The next Gadigal Ginko in Sydney will take place on Wednesday 26th February 2025, meeting at ~9.30am to visit Wareamah / Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour. Contemporary haiku poets of all levels of experience are invited to join the gathering. To register and receive details of the exact meeting point and arrangements, please visit the Gadigal Ginko web page.
Leanne Mumford
Convenor, Gadigal Ginko
This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is West Australian poet and editor, Gary Colombo de Piazzi.
grass
the wind lends
its weight
bead of sweat
another drop of salt—
outback lake
– Gary Colombo de Piazzi
Australian Haiku Society 