‘Notes from the Gean’, Resurrected – Message from Lorin Ford

I’m very happy to be able to announce that the nine complete issues 1.1 through to 3.1 of the quarterly journal, ‘Notes from the Gean’, for which I was haiku editor, have been recovered and are now archived on Don Baird’s website, ‘The Living Anthology’.

You’ll find them in TLA’s ‘Library Shelf’ under the heading ‘Journals’:

http://livinghaikuanthology.com/library-shelf.html

The work published in the first issue, ‘Notes from the Gean’1.1, June 2009, includes haiku by these Australians:

Lynette Arden, John Bird, Neil Bramson, Dawn Bruce, Nathalie Buckland, Ashley Capes, Beverley George, Gina, Matt Hetherington, Michelle Leber, Jo McInerney, Mark Miller, Graham Nunn, Rhonda Poholke, Jack Prewitt, Harry Rout, Barbara A. Taylor, Rodney Williams and Quendryth Young.

More can be found in the further issues of ‘Notes from the Gean’ archived on ‘The Living Anthology’ website.

– Lorin Ford, haiku editor & etc., ‘A Hundred Gourds’

Australian haiku poets successful – Martin Lucas Haiku Award 2015

The 2015 Martin Lucas Haiku Award – conducted in the UK by ‘Haiku Presence’ – attracted 283 entries from 52 poets, with all three poems rated as Commended coming from Australian haiku poets:

newborn lamb
a first look towards
the stars

– Ron C Moss

full moon
she makes her butterpat
a perfect circle

– Marietta Jane McGregor

falling leaves
the open book
as you left it

– Barbara A. Taylor

Full results – with the judge’s comments – can be accessed through this link:

http://haikupresence.org/awards

Bindii at Halifax Cafe 11 February

An Evening of Poetry and Music: Bindii readers at Halifax Café, 11 February 2016

On Thursday, 11 February, I spent an evening at the Halifax Café with a large and enthusiastic audience for the ten Bindii poets who read their work. We were also fortunate to have musicians Munetaka Umehara and Alexander Ask performing A Midsummer Walk, their original work for Japanese flute and didgeridoo.

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Cynthia Rowe – Living Haiku Anthology

Australian writer Cynthia Rowe has offered her thoughts about defining what haiku is for her. Under the title ‘Concision’, it can be found on ‘The Living Haiku Anthology’ website, under ‘Poets on Haiku’, or it can be accessed directly through this link:

http://livinghaikuanthology.com/lha/defining-haiku/2920-concision-by-cynthia-rowe.html

A portfolio of Cynthia’s haiku has also been created: it can be accessed within ‘The Living Haiku Anthology’ website, through this second link:

http://livinghaikuanthology.com/poet-portfolios/324-r-poets/cynthia-rowe.html

Cloudcatcher Ginko #40

Ginko 40 inaugural members
Back: Nathalie Buckland, Helen Davison, Sharon Dean. Front: Max Ryan,Quendryth Young. Photographed by Jacqui Murray, 4 February 2016 .Cloudcatchers attending Ginko #40, who were present at the inaugural ginko in 2005

 

Ginko #40

Torakina Park, Brunswick Heads NSW
Thursday 4 February 2016

The tenth anniversary of the inaugural meeting of the Cloudcatcher haiku group was celebrated at the very same picnic table where the original gathering took place on 5 December 2005. Torakina Park, in Brunswick Heads, where the Brunswick River meets the sea, has been a favourite site for ginko, and this was the fourteenth assemblage there by the group. Janice Bostok, known as the haiku pioneer of Australia, was with us at that first meeting (as she was also at a number of subsequent ginko), inspiring participants with her astute comments and some impromptu haiku of her own.

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Further haiku response from Jo McInerney – THF’s ‘re: Virals 21’

In the latest weekly posting of the ‘re:Virals’ segment on The Haiku Foundation’s website, Australian haiku poet Jo McInerney features once again, this time through her response to the following haiku:

dry wheat grass . . .
the whiteness of
a child dying

— Robert D. Wilson, ‘A Lousy Mirror’ (2011)

As well as being reproduced here in full, below, Jo’s response can be accessed at the following link:

http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2016/02/05/revirals-21/

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Australian poets featured in Shamrock No. 33

Australian poet Simon Hanson has had one of his poems voted as the best haiku for the year in the Shamrock Haiku Journal Readers’ Choice Awards 2015, as just published online in Shamrock No. 33 –

window ice
the garden thaws
in sparkles

– Simon Hanson

Full details about the 2015 Shamrock Readers’ Choice Awards can be accessed through the Shamrock website:

http://shamrockhaiku.webs.com/currentissue.htm

The work of a range of other Australian haiku poets has likewise been recognised in Shamrock No. 33, especially within the IHS International Haiku Competition Results 2015, as found below, but also through this link:

http://irishhaiku.webs.com/haikucompetition.htm

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Submissions open to the Living Haiku Anthology

Australian haiku poets are strongly encouraged to submit work towards the Living Haiku Anthology.

This is being compiled by Don Baird, Richard Gilbert and Hansha Teki.

It could become the largest international online repository of haiku.

The editors are seeking to include haiku from poets worldwide.

Representation is open to any poet who has a group of previously published haiku.

Full submission details can be found at this website:

http://livinghaikuanthology.com/