from the open doorway – Book Launch

You’re invited!

To my book launch! Haiku and stories and beautiful images…

from the open doorway

Where: Adachi Park in the Japanese Pavilion there, just past the children’s playground, Great Eastern Highway, Belmont (closest corner Abernathy Road) Perth, Western Australia

When: March 30, 2022. 2 pm

Would love to see you there!

Best, Rose

Rose takes perception and memory, mind and heart to capture a particular moment…” Coral Carter

Paperbark Haiku WA, Zoom Winter Ginko

On a glorious winter’s day, 5th August, 2020, in Perth, Western Australia, I contemplated the healing power of the sun as it entered my study windows through thin vertical blinds.  Outside, the succulents were busy showing off their light and shade, their colour and variation; inside, I was preparing for the two hour Paperbark Haiku Zoom Winter Ginko gathering.

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Paperbark haiku: Last days of summer

Wednesday 12th February 2020

Such a pretty place – Guildford, WA is an important town in the Swan Valley with so much history. I was lucky to have grown up in the area and that makes a difference to how you see a place and its relevance to writing haiku because you know its background, its heritage, and its heritage become yours.
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Run haiku run – workshop

Run haiku run
the business of finding haiku in city….

A haiku workshop for everyone from the interested bystander to the professed expert.
Presented by Creatrix haiku selector and award winning haikuist – Rose van Son

Saturday, 5th October. 2019
10.00-11.45am
WA Poets Inc
Level 2, Room 33. Bon Marche Arcade
80 Barrack St. Perth, Western Australia

Haiku are everywhere – it is just a matter of finding them; writing them; enjoying them. They may be short but they can pack a punch! Pin these escapees down.

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