Submissions are Open for Echidna Tracks Issue 14

Submissions are open for Echidna Tracks Issue 14

Simon Hanson and Marilyn Humbert will be the haiku editors for this issue. We invite your best and previously unpublished haiku/senryu on any topic that stirs your imagination. If you choose a seasonal reference, it should be compatible with the publication’s Summer/Autumn time frame.

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Ginko Haiku Walk – Sydney Royal Botanic Garden, 31st August

Red Room Poetry, in partnership with Sydney’s Royal Botanic Garden, is offering a Ginko Walk opportunity next Saturday 31st August 2024 as part of ‘Poetry Month’. There is a cost of $50. The Ginko Walk will be lead by award-winning poets Eileen Chong and Lulu Houdini. Further details and booking at Red Room Poetry.

Illawong Haiku Group Spring meeting

Tuesday 3rd September at Hurstville Museum and Gallery, 10.30am – 12.30pm
Visitors welcome.

An initiative by Hurstville Museum and Gallery (part of Georges River Council) for August Writers Month has provided us with the opportunity to occupy part of the museum space to observe and be inspired by the current travelling exhibition 1 x 4 to write some haiku.

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Cloudcatchers Winter Ginko No. 74

August 2024

What a cold winter it has been, but the Cloudcatchers held their winter ginko none-the-less, at a coastal venue – the home of one of our long-time members, Angela Smith, just south of Byron Bay on the far north coast of New South Wales. The grounds extend down a steep slope to a coastal reserve by the beach, with the sea breezes in our nostrils, and the sounds of the sea creeping into many haiku. Angela had suggested we wait for this one until winter, so all the brown snakes in the area would be asleep!

There were six of us, one an enthusiastic visitor, with two additional other  members who couldn’t be present due to health restrictions joining us in thought in a ‘virtual ginko’, and contributing later to the Round Robin, which is currently underway. We lunched together at a nearby Suffolk Park venue, The Park. Another successful, stimulating and bonding haiku ginko! 

Quendryth Young

(L to R) Quendryth Young, Robyn Braithwaite, Laurel Astle, Angela Smith, Lynette Holland, and (seated) Vivien Royston.