Eleven of us gathered on 3rd June at Hurstville Museum and Gallery to view ‘Focus: Australian Photographer’s Exhibition’; Alison Miller, Rita Potente, Kathleen Ann, Patricia Meredith, Margaret Mahony and six guests. Carol Reynolds and Ros Pitt were unable to attend.
After a welcome by Katrina, our library host, we enjoyed morning tea.
Prior Announcement: AHS Winter Solstice Kukai 2025
The Australian Haiku Society will hold a Haiga Kukai on 21 June 2025 to mark the Winter Solstice. Poets from Australia and internationally are invited to participate.
Wanda Amos has generously provided a photographic image, which will be displayed on the AHS website starting on 21 June. The competition will be open for eight days, allowing haiku poets in Australia and abroad to contribute their haiku. The competition will close at 1 am on 29 June ACST (Australian Central Standard Time).
Please enter your haiku well before the opportunity finishes to avoid missing out. Once the comments are automatically closed, they cannot be reopened for late entries.
For this competition, poets will be invited to submit one previously unpublished haiku inspired by the image. Wanda will then select the winning haiku, which will be displayed on the AHS website.
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Autumn, Shark Bay, Evans Head
The Cloudcatchers Group met for our autumn ginko on Thursday 29th May
and were blessed with a lovely sunny day. This was spent at a site new to us, at Shark Bay, Evans Head. The gathering comprised Laurel Astle, Robyn Braithewaite, Norma Watts and Quendryth Young, with visitors Richard Watts and Garry Glover.
Upcoming Haiku Workshop for Youth in Sydney
A haiku workshop for youth and book fair will be held in western Sydney on Sunday 29th June 2025, 12.30 – 3.00 pm, at Dennis Johnson Library, Stanhope Gardens, NSW. Registration fee will be $5. A work book and pens will be provided to the attendees. The workshop is targeting high school students and anyone who is interested in learning haiku. This is hosted and co-facilitated by Sydney based haiku poet and former International Coordinator of Sri Lankan Haiku Society, Subhashini Jayatilake, together with Leanne Mumford, President of AHS.
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Julia Wakefield, Subha Goonaratne, Radhika DeSilva, and Lynette Arden met on Sunday, June 1, at 3:00 p.m. via Zoom. Apologies were received from Maeve Archibald, Ewan Rourke, Udara Thambapanni, Stella Damarjati and Maureen Sexton, who sent us some haiku to use in the session. The rest of us had all brought some haiku on the two themes of technology and birds, as arranged at the previous meeting.
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Julia Wakefield, Maeve Archibald, Subha Goonaratne, and Lynette Arden met on Saturday April 26 at 3pm, using Zoom. Apologies were received from Maureen Sexton, Ewan Rourke, Stella Damarjati and Maureen Watson.
Continue reading “Report on the Bindii Meeting April 26 2025”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 Gregory Piko.
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Report on the Fringe Myrtles Meeting May, 2025
For our most recent meeting, the group held a ginko in the beautiful Treasury Gardens on the fringe of the Melbourne CBD. In attendance were Myron Lysenko, Rodney Williams, Louise Hopewell, Anna Fern, Maurice McNamara, Grant Caldwell, Tom Landgraf and Rob Scott. We also had virtual participation by Diana Cousens and Marisa Fazio.
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