From the Haiku NZ website, edited by Sandra Simpson, comes the sad news that Cyril Childs passed away on January 27, 2012 less than three months after being diagnosed with cancer.

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Posted by Cynthia Rowe at 05:02 PM | Permalink

Hearty congratulations to Quendryth Young who has won the international section of the fourth Irish Haiku Society Competition 2011 with the following haiku:

turning tide
the buoy bobs
sideways

Read all the winning haiku:
http://irishhaiku.webs.com/haikucompetition.htm

Posted by Cynthia Rowe at 04:43 PM | Permalink

My name is Mitsuru Hosobe, Board of Directors, Harvard Club of Japan. I am now working for the Mathematics Institute of Japan, supervised by Ministry of Education, Science and Technology.

We have just decided 3/14 is the day of Mathematics for 3/14 reminds us of π=3.14・・・

To commemorate the day we are now asking everyone to create and post Haiku and Senryu related to math, arithmetic and number and Evaluation Committee will evaluate them to nominate for award.

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Posted by Greg Piko at 09:26 PM | Permalink

The Adelaide based, Bindii poetry group has released its first publication.

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Posted by Greg Piko at 08:51 PM | Permalink

Haiku Bindii, Journal of the Bindii Japanese Genre Poetry Group, Vol. 1, Journeys. Convenor: Lynette Arden (2011) 60 pp. ISSN 1839-4337.

Reviewed by Patricia Prime.

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