Vanessa Proctor – Australian Haiku Society

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

Vale Cynthia Rowe

Not having any personal connection with Cynthia Rowe, I’m very grateful to Vanessa Proctor, Cynthia’s successor as AHS President in 2016, for providing the following tribute to her.

The comments section at the foot of this page will remain open until 20th May for you to add your personal reflections and tributes to an influential Australian haiku poet who shared her passion for haiku with so many around the world.
Leanne Mumford

Sydney Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Event 2024

On Wednesday 21st August, a beautifully warm and sunny day, seven haiku poets, friends and family members, met at the Sydney Cherry Blossom Festival in Auburn to take part in a reading and ginko led by Vanessa Proctor. The theme of the day was spontaneity as our expected location was not available. With some quick thinking, we found a bench and some chairs beside the billabong in the shade of a fig tree.

Report on 6th Gadigal Ginko – Winter 2024

A small group gathered in historic Camperdown Cemetery in Newtown, Sydney, on Saturday 13th July: Jane Gibian, Vanessa Proctor, Carol Reynolds, Susan Grant, Zina Ioannou and Leanne Mumford. Surrounded by Camperdown Memorial Rest Park, its tall trees and remnant native grass help make the cemetery a welcome place for quiet recreation in the inner city.

Sydney Anthology Launch 14th April 2024

On a warm and sunny Sunday afternoon 25 haiku poets and poetry lovers met in the Gallery, a heritage room in the Kirribilli Neighbourhood Centre to celebrate the Sydney launch of under the same moon: Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology (Forty South, 2023).

Reminder – Sydney Launch of Anthology Sunday 14th April

The Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology Sydney launch will be taking place this Sunday 14th April at Kirribilli. For full details, please see the post of 22nd March. Please be aware that there will be Trackwork impacting Milsons Point station on Sunday (buses replace trains between Hornsby and Wynyard on the T1 North Shore line), so allow sufficient time to arrive at the venue for 2.30pm. If you need to use the small lift at the Kirribilli Centre to access the first floor, please enter the centre via Bligh Street.

Sydney Launch of ‘under the same moon: Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology’

Sunday 14th April 2.30 – 4.30pm. Kirribilli Neighbourhood Centre, Kirribilli

We are delighted to invite you to begin the week of celebrations for International Haiku Day by coming to the Sydney launch of under the same moon on Sunday 14^th April at 2.30pm. The launch will take place in the Gallery, a heritage room with views across Sydney Harbour. Refreshments will be provided.

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