Haiku Poetry Workshop Opportunity, Central Coast, NSW, 23/08/2025

Vanessa Proctor will be facilitating a Haiku Poetry Workshop for Wyong Writers Group this coming Saturday, 23rd August.

  • Time: 1:15 for 1:30pm start  
  • Duration: 2 hours
  • Venue: Woodbury Park off Woodbury Park Drive, Mardi, NSW 2259
  • Cost Members $10.00  Visitors  $12.00 prepaid before 18/08/2025
  • Includes afternoon tea/coffee
  • Please bring writing paper and pen
  • For more details and to confirm attendance (limited spaces) email glenndc@ozemail.com.au

For more information about the club visit www.wyongwriters.org

Featured Haiku – Under the Same Moon: The Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology

This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is Chris Lynch.

missing you cabin crew disarm doors

sitting outside the meditation hall winter sun

possum pauses on the powerline lightning flash

silent night the fridge hum changes pitch

If you are interested in purchasing a copy of the anthology, please contact the secretary of the AHS.

Report on the Fringe Myrtles Meeting July, 2025

The Fringe Myrtles devoted our most recent meeting to a discussion about the haiku of Santōka Taneda, regarded as one of the leading figures of free-form haiku in Japan during the early 20th century. Our meeting was held in a hybrid fashion (with mixed success) some of the group meeting face-to-face at the Athenaeum Theatre and others joining online.

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the soundless sound – Book launch

Monday 25th August, University of Melbourne
The Fourth Floor Linkway Event Space in the John Medley Building
5pm for 5.30pm start, 6.30pm finish

Join Grant Caldwell at the launch of his new book of haiku, the soundless sound, published by Red Moon Press, the largest and most prestigious dedicated publishing house in the genre. Rob Scott, Vice President of the Australian Haiku Society will launch the book which features 270 poems written since blue balloon was published in 2020. 

This issue is a limited first printing of one hundred copies.

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Results of the AHS 2025 Winter Solstice Haiga Kukai

On behalf of the Australian Haiku Society, I would like to thank you for your entries from Australia and other countries.

Many of the entries described the image.  As Ron Moss (well-known poet and haiga judge)  has stated …

“Ideally, a ‘link and shift’ will occur between the written word and the image: the two separate elements brought together to make something that resonates on a level higher than when they were separate. It’s a challenge to bring two disciplines together to make all the elements sing and best portray the haiku moment, but I strive to capture that ideal.”

The awarded images achieved this with exceptional skill and a profound understanding of haiga.

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