Haiku on the personal side of healthcare

Pulse: voices from the heart of medicine is a website providing stories and poetry recounting personal accounts of illness and healing. Neal Whitman, haiku editor for the website, is inviting haiku submissions. A new haiku will be published on the Pulsehome page every other week. Each haiku will remain there for one week before taking up residence in the Haiku Collection back pages archive. Anyone who signs up (at no cost) to the Pulse website can submit haiku. Details are available at:

Haiku in English Anthology

A new anthology of Haiku-in-English, edited by Jim Kacian and published by WW Norton & Co, contains a good selection of haiku by Australian and New Zealand haiku poets. Some of those represented are Janice M. Bostok, Greg Piko, Lorin Ford, Ron Moss, Graham Nunn, Sandra Simpson, Ernest J. Berry, Patricia Prime and the late Cyril Childs.

Red Dragonflies spring meeting

The Red Dragonflies held their spring meeting on Saturday 31st August ― a very summery last day of winter! ― so we seem to have rolled three seasons into one on this particular occasion.

Cynthia Rowe’s home in Woollahra provided the venue, and Cynthia was the very generous (as usual) host. Apart from members each bringing along a favourite spring haiku, the pre-set exercises were not, in fact, spring-related. Instead, members had been set quite a challenge: to compose haiku on the topics of seats or chairs, a family heirloom, and lastly, fossils! Indeed, ‘fossils’ presented a particular challenge, yet none of us succumbed to writing of our partners in those terms… In short, members succeeded in avoiding cliches, and most of our ‘offerings’ received unanimous ticks of approval from the group.

Lesley Walter

Ginko With Lysenko: #17

Traditional haiku is sometimes about the changing of the seasons so the last day of winter, 31 August, is a perfect date for a haiku walk in the Melbourne Botanic Gardens.

Meet just before 11am at The Terrace tea rooms beside the Ornamental Lake. The closest entry point is through Gate A, which is on the corner of Alexandra Avenue and Anderson Street.

Bring pen and notebook. Also, please bring your own lunch or buy some from the expensive café.

Costs: $20 full
$12 concession

As places are limited, please contact Myron if you wish to attend at : myronpoet@hotmail.com

Hobart Workshops: The Art of Haiku

Fullers’ Cafe Poet, Lyn Reeves, will hold a series of haiku workshops at Fullers Bookshop in Hobart.

10.00am – 11.30am, Saturdays 17th August – 14th September

Explore the traditions and contemporary practice of these ‘capsules of poetic insight’ in a series of four workshops, followed by a ginko (haiku walk) in St. David’s Park. This course is aimed at people with an interest, but little or no knowledge of these brief but potent poems.

Numbers strictly limited. Please rsvp@fullersbookshop.com.au

 

Under the Basho

Under the Basho – a new haiku journal

Under the Basho will be published twice a year and welcomes haiku of five different styles: Traditional Haiku; Stand-Alone Hokku; Modern Haiku, One-Line Haiku, and, Concrete Haiku (Architectural).

Submission deadlines are August 15th for the September Issue and February 15th for our March Issue.

All submission information and details are posted on our website/journal: http://www.underthebasho.com . If there are any questions, please click the “Contact Us” button for direct email to us. Please let me know if you need anything else.

Don Baird