Details on the competition and submission process are available at:
]]>At the entrance to the rainforest remnant at Victoria Park, just outside the village of Alstonville, is a notice claiming, “We belong this country. We look after this country. Don’t do wrong around here this country. We don’t harm this country here. We belong to it this country.”
It was with respect and awe that ten Cloudcatchers meandered in silence under the canopy of this ancient habitat on Thursday 10 May, with glorious autumn sunshine filtering through the diverse foliage. Among the reverence and serenity we found a vitality of life in the canopy and underfoot: abundant bird calls resounded from every side, shy pademelons (small wallabies) were glimpsed from time to time, and a few land mullets (large skinks) scurried under the boardwalk. And everywhere were the lianas, strangler figs, delicate spiderwebs, moss-covered rocks, lichen and fungi, delighting us. Images were captured, and crafted into first-draft haiku around a picnic table. After sharing these, we lunched together at the local ‘Amaze ‘N’ Place’. The sun continued to shine.
A winter ginko is planned for Thursday 9 August, at the mouth of the Brunswick River. Contact: quendrythyoung@bigpond.com.
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]]>Apologies: Dawn Colsey, Alex Ask, Margaret Fensom, Pam Brow, Jill Gower.
GENERAL BUSINESS
A promotional reading for Haiku Bindii has been organized by Julia Wakefield at Stirling Library on 12 May at 3 pm. Compere: Julia Wakefield, Readers: Julia Wakefield, Belinda Broughton, Maeve Archibald, Lyn Arden, Lee Bentley, Margaret Fensom? any others?
See invitation attached. Circulate as you can to those interested
Challenges:. suggested topics for May. We decided to have two topics, one with a nature reference. Both are possible of many interpretations:
Weather
Recycling
We will trial voting by email for the next Showcase.
Our haibun renga Threads has been accepted for the 9 May reading in Mary Martins Norwood by the Kensington & Norwood writers group. Event is from 7 to 9 pm and free if anyone wishes to attend.
General Program of meeting: Discussion workshop on haiga. Examples of haiga brought by members were circulated and individual members spoke about examples they had picked out. There was some general discussion in the course of looking at the haiga on ‘what is a good haiga’.
There was some discussion with Julia Wakefield as to the exact program for our readings at Stirling Library.
Next meeting 2 June: This will be a workshop meeting for members’ work in any Japanese Genre.
The meeting concluded at 12.30 pm.
Lynette Arden
6 May 2012
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“I have always been impressed by John Carley’s knowledge of Japanese linked verse… It is my sincere hope that this new form of linked verse will take root.” —Nobuyuki Yuasa, Professor Emeritus, Hiroshima University, and translator of Basho’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches (Penguin Classics, 1966).
“the Little Book of Yotsumonos opens up a world of poetic possibility, sourced by the old, both the Chinese and Japanese poetic traditions, yet fresh and original… I suspect few will be able to read this book without wanting to try and compose a yotsumono themselves.” —Sonja Arntzen, Emeritus Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto, and translator of The Kagero Diary and Ikkyu and the Crazy Cloud Anthology.
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Norman Darlington
Moira Richards
Darlington Richards Press
http://darlingtonrichards.com
Australia’s greatest haiku poet, the late Janice M Bostok, is being honoured with a major new haiku award offering a First Prize of $350 with a Second Prize of $100 and $50 for Third Prize.
The new award will be international in scope and looks forward to attracting the very best of English language haiku from around the world – in keeping with Janice’s recognition as a truly international haiku poet and as a fitting memorial to her many decades of dedication to promoting not only the development of an Australian haiku voice but also her work on behalf of English language haiku as a global art form.
The large judging panel will be led by one of Janice’s colleagues and admirers, the multi-award winning haiku poet Jim Kacian, founder of The Haiku Foundation, and will include Australian Haiku Society president Cynthia Rowe.
The closing date for entries is 15 September 2012 and results will be announced in December 2012. The contest anthology will also be published in December.
First prize is Aust$350. The winner will also receive a limited edition unframed print of an original artwork by Janice M Bostok. The runner-up will receive a Aust$100 Second Prize and Aust$50 will be awarded as Third Prize.
All entries must be in the haiku form in English and be the original, unpublished work of the author.
An entry fee of Aust$10.00 (from within Australia and New Zealand, if paid in banknotes or cheques drawn on an Australian bank in Australia) or US$12.00 (international entries) applies to each sheet of three haiku submitted for judging.
Each entry of three haiku must be clearly marked on the back of the sheet or card with the entrant's full name, address, including country and postal/zip code and email address, if available, and any preferred pen name for use if selected for publication.
Please send your entries to Katherine Samuelowicz, paper wasp, 14 Fig Tree Pocket Road, Chapel Hill, Queensland 4069, Australia.
Australian residents can also submit their entries by email after paying the appropriate entry fee by bank transfer to paper wasp. Email entries must be submitted as two separate file attachments – one with the entrant’s haiku entry/entries and full details (Name/address/email) and the second attachment with the haiku entry/entries only. Email entries will be accepted from Australian residents only after providing details of the bank transfer of appropriate entry fee/fees. The address for email entries and details about bank transfers is:
ksamuelowicz@optusnet.com.au
Judging is double blind. The judges' decision is final, no correspondence will be entered into and entries will not be returned.
The deadline is 15 September 2012.
]]>The Kokako Tanka Competition,
Patricia Prime
42 Flanshaw Road
Te Atatu South
Auckland 0610
New Zealand
Please make cheques out to Kokako
Overseas entrants may send cash at their own risk
Conditions of entry:
1. Tanka must be previously unpublished and not under consideration elsewhere.
2. Entry fee is NZ$2 per tanka or 3 for NZ$5; overseas entries: US$1 per tanka, or 4
for US$3. Any number of entries may be sent.
3. Send two copies of each tanka, or group of tanka, with your name, address and
email on one copy only.
4. 1st, 2nd & 3rd tanka, 3 Highly Commended and 3 Commended entries will be
published in Kokako 18 (April 2013), along with the judge’s report.
5. Winners will be notified by email or mail.
6. Any theme is acceptable.
Any queries, email: pprime@ihug.co.nz
http://www.indiegogo.com/The-Haiku-Foundation-Video-Archive?a=346480&i=emal
Take a moment if you would to check it out. All the tools are there. Get perks, make a contribution, or simply follow updates. If enough of us get behind it, we can make 'The Haiku Foundation Video Archive' happen. This is a word of mouth kind of campaign, so passing this link along and spreading the word is greatly appreciated too. Thanks for having a look, and take care.
Jim Kacian
President
The Haiku Foundation
raking stones is a beautifully presented,silk-finished collection of haiku, tanka and haibun from all six members: Dawn Bruce, Joyce Christie, Margaret Conley, Margaret L. Grace, Joanne Watcyn-Jones and Beatrice Yell.
The anthology is dedicated to the memory of Janice Bostok 1942-2011, haiku pioneer of Australia.
]]> 'In this anthology diverse voices are in harmony, yet each retains its distinctive timbre.'A limited number of raking stones are available for purchase. If you are interested in obtaining a copy, please send $15 (from within Australia) to M.L. Grace, 64 Plateau Rd, Bilgola 2107 NSW.
Email enquiries to chik.chocho@bigpond.com
(price includes postage and handling)
Lynette Arden, I am delighted to announce, has accepted the position of Vice President Australian Haiku Society.
Lynette Arden will be a wonderful asset to HaikuOz and we look forward to working with her.
Cynthia Rowe
President, HaikuOz
tree-lined stream
the falcon rowing
through air
holding the warmth
of the afternoon sun
dandelion ridge
simmering rhubarb
mother plays ragtime
on broken keys
While the Jack Stamm Award has over the years become a valued and sought after prize, Paper Wasp has announced that the 2011 competition will be the last in the series honouring, Jack Stamm, the Japan-based American beat generation haiku poet who was part of a Japanese initiative to reinvigorate Australian haiku in the late 1980s.
The 2011 Jack Stamm Anthology therefore reproduces all the prize winning haiku dating back to the first competition in 1999.
Paper Wasp has also announced that it will honour Australia’s greatest haiku poet, the late Janice M Bostok, with a new international haiku award - further details will be available in the coming months.
]]>1 Conditions for Submission: Only unpublished English haiku poems are eligible for submission. Each applicant is allowed to submit up to two poems. A Japanese translation should be included with each poem when possible, but non-Japanese applicants are not required to attach a translation.
2 Judging: The judging panel will consist of Takeshi Iijima (President of the International Association of Japanese Studies, Professor Emeritus of Yamagata University), Noboru Oba (President of the Association of Culture & Tourism Promotion of the Yamadera Area and former President of the Yamagata Prefecture English Education Research Association), Jo Marinokōji (poet and critic), and Lisa Somers (Yamagata University part-time instructor, translator).
3 Divisions:
(1) Division One: college students, general public
(2) Division Two : junior high school students
(3) Division Three: high school students
(4) Division Four: non-Japanese
Only Division 4 is open to non-Japanese entrants.
4 Application procedure:
Haiku submissions may be submitted by post, email, or fax. Applicants are also requested to give their division, name, age and sex (optional), and contact information (address, phone number, email address [if any]). Age, sex, and contact information will not be made public. Junior and senior high school students should include their school name and grade, and Japanese applicants are asked to give the phonetic reading of their name.
5 Participation fee: None
6 Deadline: Applications should be postmarked no later than Friday, June 11, 2011.
7 Submissions: Haiku submissions and inquiries may be sent by post, fax, or email to:
Yamadera Bashō Memorial Museum
4223 Nanin Yamadera
Yamagata-shi, Yamagata-ken, 999-3301 JAPAN
Phone: (0)23-695-2221 Fax: (0)23-695-2552
email address: bashoenglish-haiku@amail.plala.or.jp
8 Prizes: In each division, one grand prize and two distinguished work prizes will be awarded. Recipients will receive a certificate printed in both English and Japanese as well as an additional prize.
9 Announcement of judging results:
Prize winners will be notified by mail and will be invited to attend the awards ceremony, which will be held on July 15, 2012 at 1:30 p.m. Prize-winning haiku poems will be displayed on the Yamadera Bashō Memorial Museum website during the month of July, 2012. All haiku entries will appear in the Haiku Submission Collection, and to ensure easy understandability, any unintentional spelling mistakes found in haiku submissions will be corrected by Yamadera Bashō Memorial Museum staff.
“I sometimes sense that my readers in Japan do not really understand my feelings,” she said, ‘as they may be peculiar or possibly influenced by my long residence in Australia”. This was a new and interesting angle to consider.
“On the other side of the coin,” she added, “They would probably be fresh to the readers in Japan. Therefore I am very careful to shape my tanka for my Japanese readers, to enable them to share my feelings”.
Barbara Curnow took us on more familiar territory in her How-a-Poet-Works. We were talked through examples of six tanka, three of which she was inspired to write while walking and three others created by reading prose and poetry. Barbara, who enjoys the mindful state writing tanka can bring us into, explained (tongue in cheek) that; ‘Writing tanka is like being a cow chewing the cud”. Her choice of point of view is based on the content, and she hastened to say that ‘I statements’ are not always hers.
Kathy bought attention to Dave Bacharach’s last message as editor in the latest edition of Ribbons (winter 2012). In it he examines the importance of tanka, a bite sized poem that are as he says more important “… now that we have reached an age in which human beings habitually take in knowledge, art, and general information as small quanta …” due to the influence of the Internet. He also stresses the urgency to write tanka reviews without worry of offence from “… a fellow poet within the small tanka community … especially if that poet exercises any critical or editorial influence the tanka literary community.” Whether we agree or no with these views, this last message from Bacharach is a stimulating read.
Now that it is autumn, we will meet and write at Australian National Gallery or in the Skyspace and surrounding areas, including Lake Burly Griffin instead of the ACT Writers Centre for our next meeting, 29th April. What could be better than to write tanka on location in Canberra with all its promise of colourful leaves and possible Indian Summer after a rain soaked summer?
Kathy Kituai, Founder and Facilitator of Limestone Tanka Poets
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The 7th International Tanka Festival 2012
Shonan Village Centre, November 28th- 29th, 2012
announces
The ITF SHONAN VILLAGE CENTER Competition
for tanka in English
Call for Submissions:
Open to everyone
Entry Fee: None
Address for submissions: ITF SHONAN VILLAGE CENTER Competition
c/- Nihon Kajin Club
Shuei Bldg. 2F, 1-12-5 Higashigotanda,
Shinagawa ku, Tokyo, 141-0022, Japan
Rules of Entry:
1. Tanka must be previously unpublished and not under consideration elsewhere.
2. Post two copies of each tanka, with your name and address on one copy only.
Entry is by mail only.
3. Any theme is acceptable. (Five line form only)
4. Judging is anonymous.
5. Winning tanka and commended tanka will be published in the Festival brochure.
Prizes include:
The Japan Times Prize; The Tanka Journal Prize; The Jane Reichhold Prize; The Beverley George Prize; The Hiromi Itoh Prize; The Yasuhiro Kawamura Prize; The Aya Yuhki Prize;