Featured Haiku – Under the Same Moon: The Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology

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

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Next Gadigal Ginko: ~9.30am 26th February 2025

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

White Pebbles Haiku Group

Summer meeting report

The White Pebbles Haiku Group has been meeting once every season for the past seven years at the splendid Gosford/Edogawa Commemorative Garden. For our summer ginko on Saturday 14th December, Beverley George (founder and convener), Michael Thorley, Kent Robinson, Maire Glacken and Samantha Sirimanne Hyde caught up first at the Art Centre’s café. We missed members Marilyn Humbert, Gwen Bitti, Colleen Keating and  Pip Griffin who had sent in their apologies.

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