The Bowerbird Tanka Group met on Saturday, March 12th, at Beverley George’s home
at Pearl Beach, New South Wales.
You can read a report of the day’s activities by Catherine Smith, as posted here on the “Eucalypt” website:
Red Dragonflies – summer gathering 2016
Red Dragonflies met on Saturday the 5th March at Barbara Fisher’s home for their summer gathering to workshop haiku and enjoy each other’s company.
Present were Lesley Walter, Barbara Fisher, Cynthia Rowe, Dawn Bruce and their leader Vanessa Proctor.
Unfortunately Beverley George couldn’t make it.
Vanessa had set some very challenging writing exercises, but everyone rose to the occasion and the haiku presented were varied and fresh.
Two marked haiku were placed in the bowl after lunch and read in turn. This is always a popular activity as everyone tries to guess the author.
The meeting finished at 1:30.
– Dawn Bruce
A Hundred Gourds 5.2 released
The 18th issue of A Hundred Gourds, a quarterly journal of haiku, haibun, haiga, tanka and renku poetry, is now available for your reading pleasure.
http://www.ahundredgourds.com/
Please note:
1. AHG will cease publication with our next issue, AHG 5.3, in June 2016.
AHG 5.3, our 19th issue, will be published in June. It will be our final issue, so be sure to send all submissions by the deadline of March 15th. Submissions received after the deadline will not be considered.
2. There will be no renku section in AHG 5.3
Message from Vanessa Proctor – new AHS President
I am honoured to take up the role of President of the Australian Haiku Society. Firstly, I’d like to pay tribute to those who had the foresight to found HaikuOz in 2000. The original mission to promote haiku within Australia and to bring Australian writers to the world haiku community has been so successful that Australian haiku is flourishing as never before. This is largely due to the many people who have worked tirelessly to promote Australian haiku, both in Australia and overseas. I look forward to a very bright future for HaikuOz and for English-language haiku itself.
Vanessa Proctor
President
Australian Haiku Society
Call for submissions: ‘Moonbathing’ – A Journal of Women’s Tanka
‘Moonbathing’ Issue 14 is now accepting submissions.
‘Moonbathing’ will publish two issues a year: Fall/Winter and Spring/Summer.
Submission guidelines:
‘Moonbathing’ will feature only women poets.
Send a minimum of 5 tanka & a maximum of 10 tanka per submission period.
‘Moonbathing’ does not publish tanka sequences or tanka prose/ taiga.
Please use Arial font/or a similar front, 12 pt size, single spaced (not double); also put your full name beneath each tanka & your state abbreviation or country abbreviation.
Send your tanka in the body of an email to:
Pamela A. Babusci (editor) moongate44@gmail.com
No attachments: make submissions in the body of emails only please.
No previously published tanka or simultaneous submissions; no tanka that has been posted on-line, on Facebook/Twitter or on a personal website/blog.
Submission deadlines:
Spring/Summer: in-hand deadline – May 15th (spring/summer themes or non-seasonal only).
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‘Otata’ – an e-zine of haiku and other short poems
Otata mo aru hi wa kite kureru yama no aki fukaku
Otata will come again
one day
late fall in the mountains
— Santoka, as translated by Burton Watson
As Watson notes, “Otata was a woman who went around selling fish in the area of Santoka’s cottage in Matsuyama.”
An e-zine of haiku and other short poems, ‘Otata’ appears on the last day of the month.
The ‘Otata’ e-zine can be accessed through this link:
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Beverley George the latest Australian to be a Focus Poet in ‘Presence’
Recently Beverley George became the fourth Australian haiku poet to be honoured as a Focus Poet in the respected British haiku journal ‘Presence’ (issue #54, February, 2016).
Along with other poems of hers which have previously gained recognition elsewhere, the following new haiku by Beverley have just been featured in Focus Poet # 39 in ‘Presence’:
the haiku books
I thought I would read again
the ones I do
key in the lock our dog’s swift head count
Three other Australian haiku poets have likewise been honoured in the same way: Lorin Ford, Ron C Moss and Vanessa Proctor. Groups of both Australian and New Zealand haiku poets have also been featured in Focus pieces in ‘Presence’. (See below.)
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Portfolios for Australian Haiku Poets – ‘The Living Haiku Anthology’
While further poets are encouraged to offer selections of their work, the following Australian haiku writers already have portfolios of their haiku represented in ‘The Living Haiku Anthology’:
Dawn Bruce, Jan Dobb, Lorin Ford, Simon Hanson, Myron Lysenko, Jayashree Maniyil, Ron C,. Moss, Cynthia Rowe and Scott Terrill.
Links to these various portfolios can be found below:
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Australian Haiku Society 