Duncan Richardson – Australian Haiku Society

Water Dragons Haiku Group: Brisbane

The Water Dragons Haiku Group met on 11 July.

Our numbers are slowly growing and we achieved our third meeting on Saturday morning, at the Brisbane Square Library.

With six people, a range of experienced haijin and relative newcomers, we looked at the function of kireji, samples of published work from various online journals and our own recent haiku. The meeting room is regularly cooled to uncomfortable levels, and this day was no exception so the extra layers we’d all brought proved very useful.

Our next meeting is August 8th, 10.30 am. There’s still room for more, so anyone interested is welcome. Just let me know on duncrich@outlook.com if you’re coming, so we can organize enough copies of haiku for everyone,

Duncan Richardson

Water Dragons Haiku Group First Meeting in Brisbane

Brisbane’s new haiku group, ‘Water Dragons’, had its first meeting on Saturday morning 28th March, at Brisbane Square Library, with four people attending, discussing haiku and tanka and contributing work for feedback. Our gathering included three members from the former ‘Paperwasp’ group, which folded at least eight years ago, so some reminiscing was bound to occur but despite that, we covered a lot of new ground and are ready for April 18th, when we hope to welcome a new member or two. Our members bring a variety of experience, and newcomers to haiku are welcome. We’ll start at 10.30am and finish around 1pm. Interested people can contact me, on duncrich@outlook.com.