HaikuOz - the Australian Haiku Society http://www.haikuoz.org/ en Copyright 2008 Tue, 06 May 2008 16:18:36 +1000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Wollumbin Haiku Workshop Wollumbin Haiku Workshop presents its fifth collection of haiku on:

www.wollumbin-haiku.com

Previous collections may be found on the site under archives

Please feel free to send the workshop web address, to any groups or individuals you think might find it of
interest. Feedback is appreciated.


]]> http://www.haikuoz.org/2008/05/wollumbin_haiku_workshop_2.html http://www.haikuoz.org/2008/05/wollumbin_haiku_workshop_2.html Current Events Tue, 06 May 2008 16:18:36 +1000 The Irish Haiku Society International Haiku Competition 2008 The Competition Prizes

The IHS International Haiku Competition offers prizes of Euro 150, Euro 50 and Euro 30 for unpublished haiku/senryu in English.

In addition there will be up to seven Highly Commended haiku/senryu.
Entrants may win more than one prize.

Deadline:

All the entries shall be postmarked by September 30th 2008. Overseas (non-EU) entries mailed in the month up to and including this closing date must be sent by airmail.

Address for entries:

Administrator,
The IHS International Haiku Competition 2008
75 Willow Park Grove
Glasnevin
Dublin 11
Ireland

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HaikuOz supports Haiku Dreaming Australia in encouraging haiku on Australian themes. Each month we showcase a haiku from the Dreaming website. http://haikudreamingaustralia.info/




      pregnant again . . .
     the fluttering of moths
     against the window

                                  Janice M Bostok




Editor's comment First published in Minutes of a meeting of the Haiku Society of America circa 1973. From my first reading I assumed the moths were Australian bogongs, part of the tens of millions of their kind who head south in late spring from breeding grounds in southern Queensland on their 3,000 km journey to spend summer in cool caves of the Southern Alps. This haiku became famous without most people knowing the incredible “bogong story" but for me it enriches the haiku. John Bird

]]> http://www.haikuoz.org/2008/05/haiku_dreaming_australia_1.html http://www.haikuoz.org/2008/05/haiku_dreaming_australia_1.html Current Events Sat, 03 May 2008 20:01:07 +1000 9th Annual Paper Wasp Jack Stamm Haiku Award - Results First prize was awarded to Jan O'Loughlin for her haiku:

hawk in flight
recycling the wind
into himself

Second prize was awarded to Sharon Dean for her haiku:

coastal cafe
she suckles in the shade
of mum's cowboy hat

Third prize was awarded to Helen Davison for her haiku:

spring again
birth-marks
on the snow gums

Haiku selected for the anthology will be announced soon.

]]> http://www.haikuoz.org/2008/05/9th_annual_paper_wasp_jack_sta.html http://www.haikuoz.org/2008/05/9th_annual_paper_wasp_jack_sta.html Current Events Sat, 03 May 2008 10:22:49 +1000 Haiku on Melbourne's Trains The third Moving Galleries exhibition, featuring haiku and rooku by residents of Victoria will be launched in May 2008. This is a wonderful initiative set up by Rooku Troupe (Melbourne haiku poets Lia Hills, Matt Hetherington and Myron Lysenko) in conjunction with Connex Trains and The Committee for Melbourne. This promotion of artwork and haiku has attracted great interest from the public and Melbourne's commuters.

The haiku are featured on decals which appear on the inside walls of 20 Connex trains. They will remain on the trains for six months.

]]> http://www.haikuoz.org/2008/05/haiku_on_melbournes_trains.html http://www.haikuoz.org/2008/05/haiku_on_melbournes_trains.html Current Events Fri, 02 May 2008 18:19:28 +1000 Haiku Aotearoa 18 – 20 April, 2008 Christchurch: brief report A year after attending the stimulating 3rd Haiku Pacific Rim International Conference in Matsuyama, Japan, I was delighted to be a delegate at a New Zealand national haiku conference in Christchurch, New Zealand, convened by The Small White Teapot Haiku Group. Organisers Barbara Strang, Judith Walsh and Anne Edmunds are to be warmly congratulated.

Thirty-one delegates attended with twenty-nine flying or driving in from various parts of New Zealand, including Invercargill, Dunedin, Hamilton, Wellington, Otago and Auckland. Australian Haiku Society Queensland Regional Representative, Jeffrey Harpeng, a founder of The Small White Teapot Club and instrumental in its naming, flew in from Brisbane, and I arrived from Pearl Beach, via Sydney.

The congenial but explorative tone of the conference was established on Friday night in the keynote address by Cyril Childs and led to lively, open-minded discussion throughout the conference. It was interesting to learn Cyril first became intrigued by haiku while working in Matsuyama, Japan, in 1989. Matsuyama is the birthplace of the poet Shiki and there is a wonderful museum there, the Shiki-Kinen, dedicated to haiku.

]]> http://www.haikuoz.org/2008/04/haiku_aotearoa_18_20_april_200.html http://www.haikuoz.org/2008/04/haiku_aotearoa_18_20_april_200.html Current Events Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:26:15 +1000 Harold G. Henderson Awards The Annual Harold G. Henderson Awards for best unpublished haiku
These awards were originally made possible by Mrs. Harold G. Henderson in memory of Harold G. Henderson, cofounder the Haiku Society of America.

Deadline: Inhand by July 31, 2008. Entries received after that date will not be accepted.

Eligibility: The contest is open to the public. HSA officers who are members of the executive committee are not eligible, but regional coordinators may enter.

]]> http://www.haikuoz.org/2008/04/harold_g_henderson_awards.html http://www.haikuoz.org/2008/04/harold_g_henderson_awards.html Competitions Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:51:04 +1000 Prestigious award for book of haiku The Williams Carlos Williams Award for a book published by a small press, a not for profit body or a university press is administered by the Poetry Society of America and carries great kudos.

The Australian Haiku Society warmly congratulates American haiku poet Roberta Beary and publisher Snapshot Press [UK].

Roberta Beary's collection of haiku and senryu The Unworn Necklace was one of two finalists in the Society's 2008 poetry awards, an outstanding achievement.

]]> http://www.haikuoz.org/2008/04/prestigious_award_for_book_of.html http://www.haikuoz.org/2008/04/prestigious_award_for_book_of.html Current Events Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:34:26 +1000 Members Book Launch - Dawn Bruce 'Sketching Light', is a collection of free verse, haiku, tanka and haibun by Dawn Bruce, published by Ginninderra Press. It will be launched by Beverley George at Gleebooks, Glebe Point Rd, Glebe, Sydney on 31st May at 2.30. All welcome to come along.

]]> http://www.haikuoz.org/2008/04/members_book_launch_dawn_bruce.html http://www.haikuoz.org/2008/04/members_book_launch_dawn_bruce.html Members Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:18:46 +1000 Haiku, Zen and the Eternal Now Understanding or embracing Zen is not a prerequisite for writing wonderful haiku but even a little contact can expand horizons and help writers take haiku beyond simple commentaries on nature. Sometimes it is useful in any art form to look back to what came before and to look at beginnings for fresh inspiration. That was the workshop’s objective. Not to provide a guided tour of Zen Buddhism. Rather, the objective was to take participants on a journey to extend and stretch minds and our approaches to writing haiku.

To read the complete article by Jacqui Murray click on the following link to download it in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.
Download file

]]> http://www.haikuoz.org/2008/04/haiku_zen_and_the_eternal_now_2.html http://www.haikuoz.org/2008/04/haiku_zen_and_the_eternal_now_2.html Haiku Musings Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:51:39 +1000 Haiku and the Seasons: an exploration Haiku Oz President, Beverley George has an essay titled Haiku and the Seasons: an exploration published in the latest edition of the NSW Poets Union magazine Five Bells. The magazine also features a review of Eucalypt: a tanka journal issue 3. For information on how to get a copy of the magazine or to join the NSW Poets Union visit: www.poetsunion.com

]]> http://www.haikuoz.org/2008/04/haiku_and_the_seasons_an_explo.html http://www.haikuoz.org/2008/04/haiku_and_the_seasons_an_explo.html Current Events Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:05:56 +1000 True Vine Press - Chapbook Competition CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS-HAIKU MINI CHAPBOOK

Theme: Autumn kigo haiku

Amount: Must be 8 poems. Any submissions with more or less poems will be discarded.

How: Submit 2 copies on typed or Word document (8/1/2 x 11) paper. One copy with manuscript title, author's name, address, and email address in upper right corner; one copy with the poems only. No SASE needed. Please try to include all information on one sheet! If poems have been previously published, please include the proper publication credits.

Deadline: July 4th, 2008

Entry Fee: None.

]]> http://www.haikuoz.org/2008/04/true_vine_press_chapbook_compe.html http://www.haikuoz.org/2008/04/true_vine_press_chapbook_compe.html Competitions Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:59:20 +1000 the Katikati haiku path, New Zealand To see a new post about the Katikati haiku path on the north island of New Zealand
see http://ackworthborn.blogspot.com/2008/04/abc-wednesday-k-is-for-katikati-haiku.html

Gerald England
New Hope International; Haiku Talk
reviews, poetry, photography and more
http://www.geraldengland.co.uk/

]]> http://www.haikuoz.org/2008/04/the_katikati_haiku_path_new_ze.html http://www.haikuoz.org/2008/04/the_katikati_haiku_path_new_ze.html Current Events Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:49:33 +1000 Craigleigh Press release Haiku by Two Here is a book of haiku that brilliantly charts the seasons: the map of spring to winter nuggetted in compact flashes of vivid images to savour from "robin-song edges of dawn" to "snowy sunrise shiver of morning."

Becky Alexander and Wendy Visser, masters of the provocative visions haiku revels in unfolding, offer a collaboration to enjoy throughout the year, each season captured with fresh insight in arresting language. Sound and colour in elusive brief lines catch bird and beastie, the homely comfort of den and porch, as the seasons
challenge and embrace. Both humour and haunt fountain through the work.

"Winding lane," "disappearing shadows" invite you to explore the "wisps" and "curves" that twist their enigmatic beauty as the earth, and you, revolve in a joyful excursion into the theatre of nature.

from a review by Katherine L. Gordon,
Author, Editor, Publisher, Judge and Reviewer, Resident Columnist for Ancient Heart Magazine.

For more information please log on to the Craigleigh Press website at
http://www.geocities.com/panthergpss/Craigleigh_Press

]]> http://www.haikuoz.org/2008/03/craigleigh_press_release_haiku.html http://www.haikuoz.org/2008/03/craigleigh_press_release_haiku.html Publications Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:28:39 +1000 Friendly Street Poets Inc. Japanese Poetry Competition Friendly Street Poets Inc are running a Japanese Poetry Contest. The haiku section is restricted to residents of South Australia, but the haibun and haiku sequence sections are open to all. Closing date is May 6th 2008. For further details and an entry form visit http://friendlystreetpoets.org.au

]]> http://www.haikuoz.org/2008/03/friendly_street_poets_inc_japa.html http://www.haikuoz.org/2008/03/friendly_street_poets_inc_japa.html Competitions Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:17:43 +1000