The Australian Haiku Society

MINUTES OF BINDII MEETING: 4 FEBRUARY 2012

2012-02-05T07:56:35Z

Venue: Box Factory, 59 Regent St South, Adelaide
Time: 10.30 am to 1 pm.
Present: Lyn Arden, Belinda Broughton, Jill Gower, Maeve Archibald, Margaret Rawlinson, Lee Bentley, Margaret Fensom.
Apologies: Alex Ask, Marilyn Linn, Julia Wakefield, Judith Ahmed, Dawn Colsey.
Read the minutes of the meeting below.

]]> Haiku Bindii Vol. 1 Journeys 2011 100 extra copies have been printed and are available for sale.

Beverley George has sent postcards for members who met her in Adelaide.

Kokako from Patricia Prime to borrow. Issue 15: Belinda Broughton, 14: Maeve Archibald.

Nov to Feb Challenges: Members selected items for display in the Showcase. In the future, there will be only two challenges per month and we will usually select every second month, but the next selection will be at the May meeting. Work can be submitted to any challenge topic in the period covered.

Volunteers to conduct workshops at sessions: Lee Bentley: renku discussion later in 2012, Belinda Broughton: haibun discussion in July, Maeve Archibald: haibun discussion in October. Any other contributions would be most welcome. If people want to team up to run a workshop that is also welcome. Volunteers are also sought to run a kukai session.

Other business: Launch and Box Factory Market report: successful sessions and enjoyed by those attending.
Bindii has been invited to liaise with Limestone Tanka group.

Work from members has been requested for readings in mid May on a Wednesday evening in Mary Martins in Norwood. Details will be advised when available.

General Program of meeting: Kukai: coordinated by Lyn Arden then a short local ginko was followed by general work shopping of work from members.

Next meeting 3 March: Each member is requested to bring in a favourite haiku or tanka to read. Discussion of each piece of work will be incorporated into the session. This will be followed by a workshop session on work on the February Challenge topics: sport, home, origin, history, memories of past times, our lifestyle, our lives now, our lives in the future and work on similar topics. Members may also bring work on other topics to discuss later in the session. We may have a short local ginko if the weather permits.

7 April Meeting: on Easter Saturday. This will be a ginko meeting. Venue to be advised. Coordinators: Belinda Broughton and Margaret Rawlinson.

Lyn Arden 4/2/2012
http://haiku-bindii.blogspot.com.au/

FreeXpresSion Haiku Competition – 2012 - reminder

2012-02-01T03:04:58Z

The FreeXpresSion haiku competition closes on 28 February 2012. First prize is $100 for the best single haiku. A copy of the entry form can be found below.

]]> FreeXpresSion - 2012 Literary Competition

A. Short Story: Open Theme up to 2,500 words
B. Traditional Rhyming Poetry: Open Theme up to 120 lines
C. Free Verse: Open Theme up to 120 lines
1st prize $250.00 ~ 2nd Prize $100.00 in both A, B & C categories
D. Article/Essay: Open Theme 1,500 to 2,000 words
E. Haiku: Open Theme. One page of four represents 1 entry
1st prize $100.00 (D & E) for the best article/essay and for the best single haiku,
HC and Commended Certificates will also be awarded in all categories if warranted

Closing Date 28 February 2012

 Entries should be submitted in English, using one side of A4 paper, typed double spaced, using generous margins.
 No names or addresses to appear on manuscripts. Such entries will be disqualified. Author’s name and address must be on the signed Entry Form only. The Entry Form may be photocopied. The Title (only) of entry should appear on each page of the manuscript.
 Entries must be the original work of the entrant and must not have won a cash prize in any other competition, nor been published prior to the closing date.
 Entry fee $5.00 per entry ($25 for 6 entries) and cheques etc should be made payable to FreeXpresSion. Multiple entries may be paid with one cheque or money order.
 Copyright remains with the author; however, FreeXpresSion will publish the winning Haiku entry and all placed entries in the magazine and would like the opportunity to publish suitable entries from the other categories in the FreeXpresSion Magazine and in any subsequent anthology, subject to the author’s express permission.
 Results will be published in the May issue of FreeXpresSion.
 Entries will not be returned and will be destroyed after the announcement of results; so please keep copies for your records.
 The judges’ decision will be final and no correspondence will be entered into. Please include a SSAE with your entry if you require the Results and Judges’ comments.
 Submission of an entry in this competition will be deemed to be an acceptance of and agreement to these conditions. Entries failing to meet these conditions will not be judged and entry fees will not be returned.
 Overseas entrants can use PayPal to lodge entry fee using email address pp14@tpg.com.au

2012 Entry Form

Please fill in the areas below and mail this Entry Form together with your manuscript(s) and cheque/money order to:
FreeXpresSion, PO Box 4, West Hoxton, NSW 2171

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$……… or I have arranged payment direct using Paypal tick box.

Please indicate the category in the first column with the title of the entry in the second column.

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Entry Fee $5 per entry or $25 for six entries This entry form can be photocopied. Thank you for your support

Cyril Childs 1941-2012

2012-01-29T07:02:02Z

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.

]]> 80 haiku poets who attended the presentation of papers at the 4th Haiku Pacific Rim Conference at Terrigal, NSW, Australia, in September 2009, were privileged to hear a presentation by Cyril titled "Haiku 45 South" in which he gave a brief history of the genre in New Zealand and showcased poems by a number of highly regarded New Zealand poets.

The biographical note provided by Cyril for Wind Over Water : an anthology of haiku and tanka by delegates of the Fourth Haiku Pacific Rim Conference edited by Dawn Bruce and Greg Piko, reads:

'Cyril Childs became intrigued with haiku while in Matsuyama for ten months 1989-90. Intrigue soon led to enthusiasm and passion. Cyril edited the 1993 and 1998 New Zealand haiku anthologies; co-edited (with Joanna Preston) a 2002 anthology of haiku and haibun by Christchurch writers; and has judged several haiku competitions.'

His own poems, chosen by Cyril, for inclusion in the Wind Over Water anthology are:

no name
for its colour
tea-table rose

full white moon
touching . . . not touching
the top of the hill

amidst mountains
she pauses to admire
violets

(These poems were first published in Modern Haiku XXV:1; Frogpond XVI:2; Frogpond XXIII:1, respectively)
It was my personal pleasure and privilege to meet Cyril childs at Haiku Aotearoa 2008; and at 4HPR 2009.
Condolences to Christine and to each of Cyril's family and friends.

Beverley George
Convenor: 4th Haiku Pacific Rim Conference September 2009
President: Australian Haiku Society 2006-2010

Tributes can be sent to http://www.poetrysociety.org.nz/haikunews/haikuhappenings

IHS International Haiku Competition 2011

2012-01-29T06:43:41Z

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

Maths Haiku Competition, Japan – Update

2012-01-24T11:26:11Z

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.

Entries are due by 29 February 2012 as described below.

]]> We, the Japanese, very much appreciate Australians to support Japan in disaster relief following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.

To commemorate 3.11.2011 we plan to launch the Day of Mathematics on 3.14 through “Japan Spring” to create Haiku and Senryu globally.

The Mathematics Certification Institute of Japan proudly announces that March 14(3.14) is the Day of Mathematics because π＝３．１４１５・・・

One of the characteristics of Haiku and Senryu is its artistic brevity. Haiku and Senryu are traditional forms of Japanese poetry with a primary number 5-7-5 syllable structure that makes them the shortest forms of poetry in the world and now globally appreciated.

Art work: Please create a piece of art work including image of number, arithmetic and mathematics

Individual: Two pieces of work at one contribution
Organization (School, Family): Any number of pieces at a time

Two areas of contribution:
One, Senryu
Education : individual and school
Adults: individual and family

Two, Haiku
Education: individual and school
Adults: individual and family

Example,
Senryu
Two-sided, Coin decides, Kick-off (Probability)
(Source: Junior High School Textbook -Dainippon Tosho)
Hill climbing, As it gets higher, It gets colder (Linear Function)
(Source: Junior High School Textbook -Dainippon Tosho)
Fellmer, Finally solved, Everybody happy
Casino, Subtraction, Spoiled son

Haiku
Spring: Single plum, Only single, Warmth
Summer: Early summer rain, Rapidly gathering, Into the Mogami (river)
Autumn: 4-5, Moon shadow, Dancing
Winter: January, A moon in the river, Middle of a valley

Prize: Japan
Senryu and Haiku for each
Individual : 1 Grand Prix / 2 Distinguished / 10 Prize
Organization: School Prize / Family Prize

Prize: International
(US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and India for the 1st year)

1. At final stage, internationally
Individual: 1 Grand Prix / 2 Distinguished / 10 Prizes
Organization: School Prize / Family Prize

2. For each country,
Individual: 1 Grand Prix / 2 Distinguished / 3 Prizes
Organization: School Prize / Family Prize

Art work should be new and not be in public.
Change of work and inquiries about result of the announcement are not to be answered.
Art work contributed is to be subject to MCIJ.

Application deadline: February 29, Wednesday. Please submit via:

*Twitter:@hosobe3260***

*Facebook:**http://ja-jp.facebook.com/hosobe***

E-mail:m.hosobe@su-gaku.net

Announcement: Homepage of MCIJ on March 14, 2012
Award winner will be informed separately.

Selection Committee
Chair: Seiichi Morimura (Author)
-Rie Yasumi (Senryu Artist)
-Yoshihiro Enomoto (Haiku artist)
-Kyuzo Hayashi (Rakugo artist)
-Takashi Tsukakoshi (Announcer Fuji TV)
-Yoichi Mukoyama ( Chair TOSS)
-Hideyasu Watanabe (Navigator Rakugo)
-Takuo Mitsui (Fine Artist)
-Tatsu Yoshida(NHK Enterprise)
-Shizumi Shimizu(President, MCIJ)
-International Evaluators are now under consideration.
The host: The Mathematics Certification Institute of Japan
Collaboration: TOSS
Participating Companies: Widex, Otsuka Corporation

Thank you.
Mitsuru Hosobe
The Mathematics Certification Institute of Japan

Haiku Bindii Vol 1, Journeys – How to purchase

2012-01-11T10:51:57Z

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

]]> The volume is a 60 page saddle-stitched book with colour cover and black and white illustrations. It contains haiku, senryu, haiga, haibun, haiku sequences, tanka, tanka sequences, tanka prose by members of the group. Please see Patricia Prime’s review on www.haikuoz.org for samples of the work included.

The book is for sale in Australia for $8 for one copy (posted) and $13 for two copies (posted). Payment can be made by cheque or direct debit.

Please direct enquiries, including overseas postage rates, to Treasurer Alexander Ryan: alexask@bigpond.com

Haiku Bindii Vol 1, Journeys – Review by Patricia Prime

2012-01-11T10:48:57Z

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.

]]> In this collection, the first published by the Bindii Japanese Genre Poetry Group, is gathered the work of twenty Australian poets. The categories included are haiku, tanka, haiku and tanka sequences, Renku, haibun, tanka prose and haiga. The book is a beautifully produced collection, lavishly illustrated by haiga, photos and black and white drawings. Here, I’ve discovered familiar names, and new favourites among the poets represented.

My favourite haiga are by Belinda Broughton, whose illustration is of a doll reflected in a mirror and accompanies:

at the auction
of her grandfather’s estate
nappy change

Also delightful are Lynette Arden’s haiga of a stone Buddha with its accompanying tanka:

beside stone stairs
small statues wear
bibs
rain stained and torn
tugged by the wind

and Alexander Ask’s beautiful photo of a dog, with its poem:

d r I f t I n g one moment
to the next
a dog’s life

The haiku in this collection represent moods, feelings, or moments. They are often charming, funny, and sometimes sad:

Anzac sunrise
the old bugler’s lips
quiver

Bett Angel-Stawarz

red flower
slowly withering
in memoriam

Lesley Charlesworth

cherry season
she cleans
the child’s grave

Lee Bentley

Like most tanka writers, the poets are inspired by nature and the seasons, personal experiences, love, emotions, travels and the sea. Lynette Arden’s tanka takes us back to the childhood awe of holding a shell to the ear to listen to the sound of the sea:

each collected shell
holds the ocean’s roar
sea longing
will overcome me
in this dusty suburb

Athena Zaknic’s fine tanka illustrates the grief at the loss of a loved one:

in cemetery
widow’s repeated overtures
her repentance
all over again
an audience of bats

while Bett Angel-Stawarz concentrates on the drought that often causes hardship to Australian farmers:

red winds
bury fence lines
deepening
with the drought
lines on country faces

Subjects in the haibun range from “Granite Island Haibun” and Chaos And Calm Haibun (Nigel Ford), Dream Garden” (Maeve Archibald), “Weight of loss” (Rachael Mead), “The Policeman’s Cow” (Lynette Arden), “Perfect Weather” (Lee Bentley), “Corellas (Belinda Broughton), “Journey through Paradise” (Jill Gower), “My slice of paradise” (Judith Ahmed), while the tanka prose piece “Piety” is by Pam Brow.

My favourite of the haibun is probably Jill Gower’s “Journey through Paradise”. Gower has the knack of covering her subject without ever losing the plot or theme. She also has a way with humour that holds a subtle tinge of poignancy, but still tempts you to smile and admire the way she has captured the scenery, the people and her own thoughts.

The “Shisan Renku: Armchair Travel” by Lee Bentley is a form to which I’m a relative newcomer, but Bentley’s approach in this solo shisan is sensitive and enlightened, the language is concise and to the point, through always leaving space for deeper insights and various interpretations. Standout poems for me are verses 6 and 7:

armchair travel
one tea at a time

driving through
a kaleidoscope
of tulips

Alexander Ask and Julia Wakefield’s “Shisan Renku: Life’s Inner Journey” not only explores their surroundings but also their minds and hearts. The natural treatment of the theme results in freshness and modernity. It is significant that they make us realize the way in which nature helps us to explain our deepest feelings. Two fine verses from the shisan are Alexander Ask’s verse 5 and Julia Wakefield’s verse 8:

balmy evening
mother’s war stories
amongst mosquito corpses

wind blow love letters
from sky to earth

The verses of Lynette Arden, Marilyn Linn and Alexander Ask in their “Triparshva Renku: Last Summer’s Bushfire” illustrate the plight caused by

last summer’s bushfire
how cold the frost
on charred land

Marilyn Linn

and the way in which nature and human nature overcome natural disasters and, by the close of the Renku, life returns to normal with new birth in Lynette Arden’s verse 22:

in the old tree hollow
a rosella chick breaks shell

Haiku sequences are by Beth Angel-Starwarz, Lynette Arden, Alexander Ask, Rachael Mead and Athena Zaknic. Here are two haiku from Rachael Mead’s “Autumn nights” and two from Athena Zaknic’s “Christmas haiku”:

footsteps at night
on my skin
a spider

cloud swathed moon
another quilt
on the bed

small child
to bed for the longest night
Christmas eve

yearly gathering of the clan
for Christmas dinner
silent night

There is also one tanka sequence, “A Pair” by Belinda Broughton. This is the last tanka from her sequence:

droplets
on the naked tree
pooling
blue light
his aging eyes

Here, gathered in a single volume, are some of the best Australian writers of Japanese short form poetry. Showcasing poems from accomplished writers, the collection also introduces new writers. The poems in Haiku Bindii Journeys testify to the poets honest and loving relationships with the Australian landscape, their memories of place, nature and people, evoked and explored (sometimes with humour) through closely observed detail. To sum up, a really judicious selection has resulted in a collection which accurately reflects the poets’ abilities, their flair for sensing and conveying the depth of uncommon moments. This collection would make a beautiful addition to anyone’s bookshelf or a wonderful gift.

Genjuan Haibun Competition - Reminder

2012-01-08T04:02:43Z

Just a reminder that entries for the Genjuan International Haibun Competition close on 31 January 2012.

]]> Guidelines for 2012
1 Subject: Free.
2 Style: No restrictions, but special attention must be paid to honour the spirit of haikai.
3 Length: In total, not more than 30 lines with 80 spaces in each line on a single sheet of A4-size paper.
4 Haiku: At least one haiku should be included.
5 Format: Print on one sheet of A4-size paper and write at the bottom your name and your pen name, if you have one, together with your address, telephone number, and email address. Your privacy will be strictly protected, and the judges will not see your names until the result has been decided.
6 Deadline: All entries should reach the following address by 31 January 2012. Entries received after this date will not be accepted. Please send your entries to:
Ms. Motoko Yoshioka, Regalia 907, 7-32-44 Fujimi-cho, Tachikawa-shi, Tokyo 190-0013, Japan. Please avoid sending by express, and using extra- large envelopes. Please write your home address on your envelope, too.
7 Entry Fee: None
8 Restrictions: Entrants can send up to three entries. They should be unpublished. As we cannot return your entries after screening, please retain your own copies.
9 Questions: All queries should be sent to the address above.
10 Special Request: The authors of the decorated works will later be requested to send us their works by email. In this, we expect your cooperation.
11 Results: The results and the judges’ comments will be sent by post to all the entrants in spring. The certificates of merit and prizes will be sent to the winners by early summer.

Congratulations to Dr Sharon Dean

2011-12-24T03:52:01Z

Huge congratulations to Dr Sharon Dean, who has had the degree of Doctor of Philosophy conferred upon her by the Griffith University QLD. Her thesis was entitled 'White Heron: The Authorised Biography of Australian Pioneering Haiku Writer, Janice Bostok.'

]]> Sharon was present at the time of the formation of Cloudcatchers, in December 2005, where she had conversation with Janice Bostok. You will recall that Janice, our Patron, died in September this year. Sharon has maintained a passionate interest in all Cloudcatchers, and their activities and successes, though her work situation has prevented her from attending ginko recently. She has been congratulated by the Dean of the Griffith Graduate Research School on her outstanding achievement and the significance of her work and its contribution to the field of research.

Sharon won the Haiku Dreaming Australia Competition in 2009. And it was a haiku of Sharon's that was the only one chosen to illustrate the genre in the review of the 'Third Australian Haiku Anthology' which appeared in 'Spectrum' (Sydney Morning Herald) last Saturday. We are fortunate and privileged to number her as one of us.

Quendryth Young
Cloudcatchers Coordinator

The Third Australian Haiku Anthology Review

2011-12-20T14:04:20Z

The Third Australian Haiku Anthology (paperwasp:2011), featuring 70 haiku poets, has been warmly and sensitively reviewed in the Sydney Morning Herald (17-18 December, 2011) - for which we are extremely grateful. This development again reinforces the strength, vitality and maturity of the form in this nation. Significantly, a review in the SMH testifies to the quality of haiku being written in Australia today and places haiku in the mainstream of Australian poetic endeavour. It is a delightful note on which to round out the year and here's wishing everyone a happy and successful 2012.

Jacqui Murray

World Haiku Review online: December 2011 Issue

2011-12-13T13:09:19Z

The World Haiku Club is pleased to announce that the December 2011 Issue of World Haiku Review is now online. Click on http://sites.google.com/site/worldhaikureview2/home

Rohini Gupta, our Technical Editor, is continuing her noble and arduous task of retrieving and rescuing poems, articles, treatises, reports, contributions etc. of the past World Haiku Review issues 2001 - 2007, which got tragically lost in mysterious circumstances. Her first effort is focused on saving, recovering and rescuing only. She will then gradually sort them out and give them shape. If you happen to come across any of these invaluable items of the past WHR issues, by all means please let us know.

]]> The following poets, please take a look at this new issue to find your poems among the best 10s: aju mukhopadhyay, Susan Constable, Carmel Lively Westerman, Patricia Prime, Priscila H. Lignori, Marie Shimane, Peggy Heinrich, Anita Virgil, André Surridge, Cynthia Rowe, Marje A. Dyck, Marilyn Potter, Kai Falkman, Bruce R. Boynton, Feu Violet, CaroleAnn Lovin, LeRoy Gorman, Lucille Raizada, Owen Bullock

We do hope that you will enjoy this issue of World Haiku Review.

Kengin,

Susumu Takiguchi
Managing Editor & Acting Editor-in-Chief, World Haiku Review
Chairman, The World Haiku Club

Kala Ramesh
Deputy Editor-in-Chief, World Haiku Review
Rohini Gupta
Technical Editor, World Haiku Review

Results of Kokako Haiku Competition

2011-12-09T08:36:26Z

Congratulations to Sandra Simpson from Tauranga, New Zealand, on winning first and third prize in the Kokako Haiku Competition. Well done, also to Janette Hoppe and Jan Dobb for their Highly Commended entries.

1st Prize

pulling down the blinds
at 11 am
your lips on my eyelids

Sandra Simpson (NZ)

]]> 2nd Prize

sepia sedges
along the river bank
glint of a rod

Claire Knight (UK)

3rd Prize

our parting words the gorse in full flower

Sandra Simpson (NZ)

Highly Commended

homeless shelter
their worn out
welcome mat

Ernest J. Berry (NZ)

my wine glass
empty
this flightless evening

Janette Hoppe (AUS)

blue
the sky falls to pieces
in a gumtree

Jan Dobb (AUS)

Commended

footbridge
the medium says
she’s happy

Roland Packer (CAN)

fresh sawdust
in the butcher’s shop –
my sister kicks it

Sandra Simpson (NZ)

weekend children
picking onion flowers
for their step-mom

Andre Surridge (NZ)

Special Mention

‘stretch limo . . . “ E. J. Berry (NZ)
‘low tide” Cynthia Rowe (AUS)
‘train journey – ‘ Beverley George (AUS)
‘still no one’. Beverley George (AUS)
‘flecks of mud’. Rodney Williams (AUS)

FreeXpresSion Haiku Competition – 2012

2011-12-08T04:51:04Z

The FreeXpresSion haiku competition closes on 28 February 2012. First prize is $100 for the best single haiku. A copy of the entry form can be found below.

]]> FreeXpresSion - 2012 Literary Competition

Closing Date 28 February 2012

 Entries should be submitted in English, using one side of A4 paper, typed double spaced, using generous margins.
 No names or addresses to appear on manuscripts. Such entries will be disqualified. Author’s name and address must be on the signed Entry Form only. The Entry Form may be photocopied. The Title (only) of entry should appear on each page of the manuscript.
 Entries must be the original work of the entrant and must not have won a cash prize in any other competition, nor been published prior to the closing date.
 Entry fee $5.00 per entry ($25 for 6 entries) and cheques etc should be made payable to FreeXpresSion. Multiple entries may be paid with one cheque or money order.
 Copyright remains with the author; however, FreeXpresSion will publish the winning Haiku entry and all placed entries in the magazine and would like the opportunity to publish suitable entries from the other categories in the FreeXpresSion Magazine and in any subsequent anthology, subject to the author’s express permission.
 Results will be published in the May issue of FreeXpresSion.
 Entries will not be returned and will be destroyed after the announcement of results; so please keep copies for your records.
 The judges’ decision will be final and no correspondence will be entered into. Please include a SSAE with your entry if you require the Results and Judges’ comments.
 Submission of an entry in this competition will be deemed to be an acceptance of and agreement to these conditions. Entries failing to meet these conditions will not be judged and entry fees will not be returned.
 Overseas entrants can use PayPal to lodge entry fee using email address pp14@tpg.com.au

2012 Entry Form

Please fill in the areas below and mail this Entry Form together with your manuscript(s) and cheque/money order to:
FreeXpresSion, PO Box 4, West Hoxton, NSW 2171

Name(Please Print)

……………………………………………………………………..Signature………………….

Address…………………………………………………………………………………………

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……………………State………………..P/Code………..

No. of Entries…………………. Enclosed please find my cheque/money order for the sum of

$……… or I have arranged payment direct using Paypal tick box.

Please indicate the category in the first column with the title of the entry in the second column.

Category/Title

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Entry Fee $5 per entry or $25 for six entries This entry form can be photocopied. Thank you for your support

Fujisan Haiku Competition

2011-12-02T01:09:07Z

The Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, is conducting an international haiku competition in support of their goal to have Fujisan (Mt Fuji) declared a World Cultural Heritage Site. The haiku are to be composed on the topic of Fujisan and are to be submitted by 20 January 2012.

Details regarding the haiku competition, including entry forms, are available at:

http://www.fujisan-3776.jp/haiku.english.htm

Further background and a Fujisan photo gallery are available at:

http://www.fujisan-3776.jp/english/

A Hundred Gourds now Online

2011-12-01T01:36:27Z

A Hundred Gourds 1:1 is now online---

The first issue of A Hundred Gourds: a quarterly journal of haiku, haibun, haiga and tanka poetry is now online.

http://ahundredgourds.com

The Editorial Team of A Hundred Gourds extends warmest thanks to everyone who submitted their work for consideration for this, our inaugural issue. Thanks to your enthusiastic welcome, it’s a bumper edition.

]]> As well as haiku, tanka, haiga and haibun you’ll find essays, interviews and a review in the Expositions section.

There is also a memorial Feature dedicated to the late Janice M. Bostok, Australia’s haiku pioneer.

Please join us in welcoming three new editors to the AHG team:
• William Sorlien, of St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, is Renku Editor, already organising A Hundred Gourds’ first renku section, which will be published in AHG 1:2.
• Susan Constable, of Vancouver Island, Canada, is the new Tanka Editor. Susan’s first tanka section will be published in AHG 1:2.
• Mike Montreuil, of Ontario, Canada, is the new Haibun Editor. Mike’s first haibun section will be published in AHG 1:3.

A Hundred Gourds welcomes your submissions to the New Years’ editions.

• Special notice for tanka & renku submissions to AHG 1:2 & 1:3

The submission period for tanka and renku only has been extended for the March issue, AHG 1:2. Submissions of tanka and renku received up to the 31st December will be considered for AHG 1:2. Tanka and renku submissions received between January 1st and March 15th will be considered for AHG 1:3. Please read the submissions guidelines page on the AHG website for further details.
The deadline for haiku, haibun, haiga and for the Expositions section of AHG 1:2 remains at December the 15th.

Lorin Ford, haiku editor,
for the Editorial Team
A Hundred Gourds