February 2015 Meeting of Bindii Japanese Genres Poetry Group

Bindii Meeting: 7 February 2015 was held at the Box Factory, Adelaide from 12 pm – 2 pm.

The meeting, chaired by Lee Bentley, concentrated on organizational details for the launch of our new anthology: Haiku Bindii: Willow Light. The anthology will be launched on Saturday 25 April 2015 at the Box Factory Community Centre.

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Cloudcatchers Ginko No.36

Ginko No.36 (summer)

Lake Ainsworth, Lennox Head NSW
Thursday 29 January 2015

Cloudcatchers gathered at Lake Ainsworth, Lennox Head, for a summer ginko on Thursday 29 January. This venue is north of Ballina, with the surf on one side of the road, and the tea-tree-girdled fresh water lake on the other.

One of our members had researched further into the history, so we learnt of the original ownership of this land as that of the Jali people of the Bundjalung Nation, and somehow this added to our respect for all those who have trodden these sands and marvelled over the centuries at the spiritual sanctity of this place, with its special regard to ‘women’s business’.

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IHS International Haiku Competition Results 2014

Winners of the 7th Irish Haiku Society International Competition 2014 include the following Australian haiku poets:

Cynthia Rowe (Third Prize), Jan Dobb and Jan O’Loughlin (both Highly Commended).

Please feel free to visit the IHS site through this link:

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

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8th European Quarterly Kukai Winter Edition 2014

The winner of the 8th European Quarterly Kukai Winter Edition 2014 is Cynthia Rowe, New South Wales, for this haiku:

neap tide
the old fisherman harvests
moon crystals

170 Poets from 40 countries participated in this kukai.

A complete posting of results may be viewed through accessing the following link:

http://europeankukai.blogspot.com/2014/12/results-of-european-quarterly-kukai-8_18.html

 

Red Dragonflies Summer Meeting and Ginko December 12th, 2014

The large beach-side studio of artists Jocelyn Maugham and Robin Norling at Patonga was the inspiring meeting-place for the Red Dragonflies in summer 2014. We were free not only to wander the galleries admiring the diversity of artwork, making notes, but also to climb the stairs to the giant studio, sidestepping buckets of paint and drip cloths, brushes soaking, easels and stools; a chaise longue for posing. Continue reading “Red Dragonflies Summer Meeting and Ginko December 12th, 2014”