This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is Western Australian poet, Rose van Son.
stringing tomatoes –
midsummer’s fruit
hangs on to midwinter
magnolia blooms …
three generations of
a family tree
writer’s retreat
clock chimes
each quarter hour
wild fennel
mother’s olive jar
overflows
– Rose van Son
Welcome, haiku poets worldwide, to the Australian Haiku Society Spring Equinox Haiga Kukai 2024: Seasonal. The competition starts today, 22 September, in Australia. It will be open for eight days, including today, to allow haiku poets in Australia and abroad to contribute their haiku.
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Welcome, haiku poets worldwide, to the Australian Haiku Society Spring Equinox Haiga Kukai 2024 Non-Seasonal. The competition starts today, 22 September, in Australia. It will be open for eight days, including today, to allow haiku poets in Australia and abroad to contribute their haiku.
Continue reading “AHS Spring Equinox Haiga Kukai 2024: Non-Seasonal”Tuesday 3rd September
The Illawong Haiku Group took advantage of an opportunity to experience something a little different for our Spring meeting. Hurstville Museum and Gallery (HM&G; part of Georges River Council) invited writing groups to use the current travelling exhibition 1 x 4 as inspiration. Museum space, writing supplies and morning tea were provided.
Continue reading “Illawong Haiku Group – Spring meeting”Submissions welcome – open 21st September to 21st November, 2024.
Thanks to all AHS members who have offered contributions to the first two issues of Catchment – Poetry of Place: such interest and support is greatly appreciated!
Australian poets are again encouraged to submit work which explores a sense of location, either in tanka or in longer Western forms, or both.
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Warm greetings once again as four of us met up, settled in and ordered lunch—Kathy Kituai, Hazel Hall, Glenys Ferguson and Jan Dobb. We thought of our other two haiku buddies who are away on travels—Greg Piko and Marietta McGregor.
Continue reading “Haiku @ The Oaks, Canberra”The Australian Haiku Society will hold a Haiga Kukai on 22nd September to mark the Spring Equinox, which occurs this year in Australia. Poets from Australia and internationally are invited to participate.
Melbourne artist, Olivia Ark, has generously provided two images (Seasonal and Non-seasonal), which will be displayed on the AHS website starting on 22nd September. The competition will be open for eight days, to allow haiku poets in Australia and abroad to contribute their haiku.
Please enter your haiku well before the opportunity finishes to avoid missing out.
For each competition, poets will be invited to submit one previously unpublished haiku inspired by the image. Someone will then select the winning haiku, which will be displayed on the AHS website.
Continue reading “Prior Announcement: AHS Spring Haiga Kukai 2024”This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is Melbourne-based poet, Earl Livings.
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