The Australian Haiku Society (AHS) is excited to be offering three mentorships as a trial programme from September this year. This is a new initiative of the AHS and the trial will help us to develop an even more substantial mentorship programme in the future.
Continue reading “Applications Now Open for Three AHS Mentorships”Tag: Maureen Sexton
Featured Haiku – Under the Same Moon (Australian Haiku Anthology)
This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is Western Australian poet, Maureen Sexton.
skinny dipping
in the outback river
paperbark trees
fly fishing
the sudden flick of
a frog’s tongue
my mother asks
if I am her sister . . .
entry to the maze
my daughter’s grave …
shadows of flowers dance
by my side
domestic fight
a young child hiding
in the fairy garden
– Maureen Sexton
Review of Paperbark Haiku Zoom Meeting
Friday 30th April 2021
11 am Perth,Western Australia time
by Maureen Sexton
Seven people ‘attended’ the zoom meeting. They were Michael Dylan Welch (USA), Rose van Son (WA), Lynette Arden (SA), Liz Nicholls (WA), Wanda Amos (NSW), Madhuri Pillai (Vic) and Maureen Sexton (WA). Each attendee shared the details of their personal ginko, i.e. where they were, what the weather and surrounds was like and three each of the haiku they wrote from that ginko. There was lively and thorough discussion of each haiku with some generous and helpful suggestions offered. This was followed by some interesting and thoughtful discussion on various aspects of writing haiku, such as lineation, experimental writing and what makes a haiku, a haiku. Or in other words, what isn’t a haiku. Thank you Michael Dylan Welch for letting us use his Zoom pro account, so we didn’t have a time limit. Much appreciated.
Here is what each ‘attendee’ has to offer from the meeting:
Paperbark Haiku Autumn Zoom Meeting
Djeran noongar season
Friday 30th April, 1 pm
(Australian Western Standard Time for Perth, Western Australia)
Please have some haiku to share during the meeting and be prepared to key the haiku into the comments box when requested, so everyone can see as well hear the haiku. They can be haiku you wrote at our Ginko at Adachi Park, or haiku you wrote on your own ginko, in your own time, preferably between 24th and 30th April.
Please either private message Maureen Sexton on Facebook/Messenger or email for the link to the zoom meeting.
Thank you
Maureen Sexton
Paperbark Haiku Autumn Ginko
Wednesday 28 April 2021
10 am to 12 noon (approx)
Adachi Park
132 Great Eastern Highway, Ascot
Western Australia
Currently it’s Djeran Season in Noongar seasons. Djeran is a season of adulthood. April-May. Ant season
We will meet next to the car park. Please bring with you a notebook and pen, some water and something to eat and drink if you wish. It may be a good idea to have a folding chair with you, in case the picnic tables and chairs are taken. We will have a short meeting, then head off on our ginko (haiku walk) before we meet up again to share our haiku and observations.
Paperbark Haiku Invite
Paperbark Haiku invites you to take part in our Spring Kambarang Ginko
We’re almost half way through Spring and into Kambarang (Noongar season), so the landscape is radiant with wildflowers and the days are slowly getting warmer. Time to celebrate and give birth to some new haiku. So join us on our ginko, or if you can’t do that, join us after for a Zoom meeting to share your new haiku from your personal ginko.
Wednesday 21st October
10 am
Tomato Lake
Oats St, Kewdale
Perth WA
Zoom meeting will be held
Wednesday 21st October
1 pm for 1 hour to share and discuss our haiku
Haiku Workshops: Michael Dylan Welch
Michael Dylan Welch is running a number of workshops on Zoom that you are invited to attend. The workshops are part of the Perth Poetry Festival.
Click on the links below for further details:
Take a Walk on the haiku Side (ginko)
This is a great opportunity for poets interested in haiku and related forms.
See you there
Maureen Sexton
Convenor Paperbark Haiku
Australian Haiku Society 