To list your haiku book here contact the secretary for guidelines.
Windfall: Australian Haiku is a small annual print publication which seeks to publish fine examples of contemporary Australian haiku. Beverley George is editor of Windfall, which is published by Peter Macrow’s Blue Giraffe Press. Submissions are welcome in July each year.
Sandra Simpson has published her first collection of haiku. Details are at the following web site:
http://breathhaiku.wordpress.com/
The first peer review of Breath is also available. If you’d like to read it, please go here:
http://www.poetrysociety.org.nz/node/642
The Adelaide based, Bindii poetry group has released its first publication.
Continue reading "Haiku Bindii Vol 1, Journeys – How to purchase" »
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.
Continue reading "Haiku Bindii Vol 1, Journeys – Review by Patricia Prime" »
Esther Theiler’s new book Jutei and Basho is now available from Ginninderra Press.
www.ginninderrapress.com.au/fiction.html
Jutei was a woman who lived in Japan in the seventeenth century and had a relationship of some kind with the great haiku master, Matsuo Basho. This is an imaginative re-construction of the life of Jutei, intertwined with the historically known life of Basho and written in the spirit of haibun and haiku.
The inaugural issue of A Hundred Gourds will be a big issue. We are on track for the publication date of December 1st.
Thank you to everyone who submitted haiku to me for A Hundred Gourds, 1:1.
As well as haiku, tanka, haibun and haiga, the December issue will contain a retrospective feature on Janice M. Bostok’s haiku life, essays by John Carley, Jack Galmitz and Chen-ou Liu and interviews with two haiku poets whose names we’re keeping as a surprise.
The Haiku Foundation provides an excellent central point for accessing information on haiku publications, competitions and other events happening around the world. The Haiku Foundation Events Calendar can be found at:
http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/event_calendars/
Some other key national haiku web sites are:
Haiku NewZ http://www.poetrysociety.org.nz/haikunews
Haiku Society of America http://www.hsa-haiku.org/
British Haiku Society http://britishhaikusociety.org.uk/
Dear Friends & Poets,
I’m very sorry to be in the position to have to tell you that I am no longer haiku editor for Notes From the Gean. I am informed that NFTG will continue or begin again on a new website, fully owned and directed by Colin Stewart Jones and his press, Gean Tree Press. Because the changes to NFTG entail a new webmaster as well as the replacement of other editors besides myself, I cannot predict when future issues of Notes From the Gean will be published online. Enquiries about future submissions to Notes From the Gean should be directed to Colin Stewart Jones at geaneditor@gmail.com
My gratitude and warm thanks for all of the fine haiku I’ve had the privilege to read and select for publication whilst I’ve been haiku editor at Notes For the Gean, and my sincere apologies any inconvenience caused.
Best wishes,
Lorin Ford, haiku editor,
"Notes From the Gean", issues 1 – 9 (June 2009 - June 2011)
www.geantree.com
The next issue of World Haiku Review is planned for August 2011.
As for haiku poems in English or in English translation, send in by e-mail anything you like, traditional or non-traditional on any topic, free or formal style, kigo or muki, up to ten poems which have not been published or are not considered for publication elsewhere to:
kalaramesh8@gmail.com
AND
susumu.takiguchi@btinternet.com
Please use the font "Ariel", size 12 and present your haiku in the simplest and most straightforward format, all starting from the left margin, avoiding fanciful layout and formation. Please do not forget to write your country with your full name. Suggested themes: life, death and summer scene.
The only criterion for selection is quality. Please therefore send in your finest works as soon as you can. There is no set deadline but when enough number of good works are received we will announce that and the submission will be closed soon after that.
Call for submissions
It is now five years since the publication of the Second Australian Haiku Anthology (2006). That followed the First Australian Haiku Anthology developed and published on line by John Bird and Janice Bostok in 1999 and subsequently published by paper wasp in 2003. Another edition of work by Australian haiku poets, now so well represented in contests and publications around the world, is timely. Thus, submissions for a third edition are invited from published haiku poets living in Australia or from Australian haiku poets resident overseas.
The deadline for submissions is: 30 September 2011
paper wasp editors/publishers
Katherine Samuelowicz, Jacqui Murray
Supported by AHS
Jane Hirshfield, translator with Mariko Aratani of the poety of Shikibu and Komachi in the 'Ink Dark Moon' has had a new e-book about Basho released by Amazon in the Kindle Singles series.
The new book is titled 'The Heart of Haiku' and is based on a lecture she gave several years ago. It is available from:
Beverley George
http://www.geantree.com/index.html
With this 9th issue, 'NFTG' is entering its third year of quarterly publication. The editorial team wishes to thank all of our contributors and readers for the continuous support you've given to our journal over the past two years. We look forward to publishing more of your haiku, tanka, haiga, haibun and renku/renga in coming issues. 'NFTG' is now accepting relevant essays and articles for publication, as well.
Submissions for the September issue are open until the 30th of June. Please check the submissions page for further details.
Lorin Ford, haiku editor, 'Notes From the Gean'
Red Moon Press has released A New Resonance 7, the latest in its biennial series featuring emerging voices in English language haiku from around the world.
This volume, edited as usual by Jim Kacian and Dee Evetts, includes haiku by Lorin Ford, Quendryth Young and Greg Piko from Australia, and Andre Surridge from New Zealand.
Also included are a further 14 poets living in Canada, Scotland, Japan and the United States. Each poet is featured with a selection of 15 of their haiku, biographical details and commentary by the editors.
A New Resonance 7 showcases writers who are making a mark in the global haiku community, providing a broader exposure for these poets than might be achieved through the publication of individual haiku in journals or on the net. Copies of A New Resonance 7 (186 pages, perfect softbound) are available from:
Lorin Ford’s email: geanhaiku(at)googlemail(dot)com
Greg Piko’s email: gregpiko(at)hotmail(dot)com
Congratulations to Lorin, Quendy and Greg as inclusion in this prestigious publication is by invitation of the editors based on their own reading and suggestions from previous New Resonance poets.
Dawn Bruce
Vice President
HaikuOz
A new book by Katherine Samuelowicz, with 73 pages of tanka, haibun, haiku and photographs, published by PostPressed, is now available from the author at:
ksamuelowicz@optusnet.com.au
or from the publisher, John Knight, at:
jwk@powerup.com.au.
Price $18.00 including postage within Australia.
The 8th issue of 'Notes From the Gean' is now online.
http://www.geantree.com/indexcover.html
Congratulations to all of the Australians and Kiwis in the haiku, tanka and renku sections. We're looking forward to all of your submissions to 'Gean, Vol. 3, Issue 1', which will be published in June.
The closing date for submissions to the June issue is March 30th.
- Lorin Ford, haiku editor, 'Notes From the Gean'
A review by Beverley George of Peggy Heinrich's Peeling an Orange (photographs by John Bolivar)
is now available on the New Zealand Haiku site hosted by NZPS
http://www.poetrysociety.org.nz/node/569
A review by Beverley George of Peggy Heinrich's Peeling an Orange (photographs by John Bolivar)
is now available on the New Zealand Haiku site hosted by NZPS
http://www.poetrysociety.org.nz/node/569
Announcing Day's End: A collection of haiku, senryu, tanka matched with images and of haibun on the subject of aging by 50 poets. Editor Ray Rasmussen. Guest Editor Anita Virgil.
http://raysweb.net/daysendpoetry
This website contains a collection of images and poems by some of the well-known poets in the contemporary haiku, senryu, tanka and haibun genres. Also included are poems from Asian poetry masters – voices from the past sharing the same sensibilities as we, who think of ourselves as modern.
Seeking haiku and senryu for an anthology focusing on excellent English-language haiku by women around the world. Ladies, send 5-15 of your best haiku, published or unpublished, to: paperlanternhaiku@gmail.com.
With your submission, please include your name, country, a brief bio of 150 words or less, and any applicable publication credits of submitted poems. Nominations of poets and individual poems are also welcome, and strongly encouraged. Deadline: April 15.
It had come to my attention when searching that there is not anthology of just women's English-language haiku (none that I've found anyway). With such prolific and powerful women writers within the English-language community, they deserve a space/recognition of their own.
Aubrie Cox
Moonbathing Issue 4 is now accepting submissions. I have additional copies of Moonbathing issue 3, hot off the press. If you wish to purchase a copy(ies), please see information below.
Moonbathing will publish two issues a year: Fall/Winter and Spring/Summer.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Moonbathing will feature only women poets.
Send a maximum of 10 tanka per submission period.
Submission deadlines:
Spring/Summer: In-hand Deadline: May 15th spring/summer themes or non-seasonal only
No previously published tanka or simultaneous submissions; no tanka that has been posted on-line on a personal website/blog.
SUBMISSION ADDRESSES:
Send your tanka IN THE BODY OF AN E-MAIL to: Pamela A. Babusci: moongate44(at)gmail(dot)com PLEASE NO ATTACHMENTS. E-mail submissions ONLY.
I hope that all tanka poets who have their work accepted will support Moonbathing by purchasing a copy or a subscription. If Moonbathing is to survive it will need your support and I will be most grateful for it.
DONATIONS MOST WELCOME.
DISCLAIMER:
Moonbathing does not assume liability for copyright infringement or failure to acknowledge previously published tanka.
COPIES/SUBSCRIPTIONS:
Subscriptions: $10 for one year (two issues) U.S. and Canada; $5 for single issue. International: $14 (two issues) $7 single issue U.S. dollars; send US cash or international M.O.—payable to
Pamela A. Babusci to: Moonbathing Editor
150 Milford Street Apt. 13 14615-1810 USA
The Editor of Moonbathing is looking forward to receiving your best tanka. If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail Pamela A. Babusci moongate44(at)gmail(dot)com
Respectfully submitted,
Pamela A. Babusci,
Editor of Moonbathing
HIBIKI is the first collaborative book of haiku by Cathy Drinkwater Better (Maryland, USA) and Geert Verbeke (Flanders, Belgium). This 40-page, side-stapled, digest-size book contains two individual sections of 72 haiku each, one devoted to each poet’s work and a brief biographical note. All of the haiku in HIBIKI are new.
This limited-edition collection is available exclusively through the poets: Contact Cathy Drinkwater Better at cbetter@juno.com for more information.
To order, write her at 613 Okemo Drive, Eldersburg, MD 21784; cost in the U.S. is $10, postage paid.
For more information, e-mail Cathy at cbetter@juno.com or visit her Web site at www.cathydrinkwaterbetter.com.
For information on overseas ordering, go to Geert’s Web site, http://www.haikugeert.net, and click on CYBERWIT INDIA at the top; or write to him at Leo Baekelandlaan14, B-8500, Kortrijk, Flanders, Belgium.
The December issue of ‘Notes From the Gean’ is now online.
http://www.geantree.com/indexcover.html
Submissions to the March 2011 issue will be accepted up until December 30th.
Please check the submissions page for details.
Lorin Ford
haiku editor
Notes From the Gean
Simply Haiku calls for submissions
http://www.simplyhaiku.wordpress.com
Submissions for the Autumn issue accepted from July 15 through September 15.
Accepting Quality Traditional English Language Haiku, Tanka, Haibun, Haiga, Renga, book reviews, interviews and feature articles.
Please read carefully the Submission Guidelines before submitting.
http://simplyhaiku.wordpress.com/2010/06/21/submission-guidelines/
Haiku to Robert D. Wilson: foamfish@gmail.com
Tanka to Amelia Fielden: anafielden@hotmail.com
Haibun to Kala Ramesh: kalaramesh8@gmail.com
Haiga to Silvija Butkovic: haigaeditor@gmail.com
Renga, Book reviews, interviews, feature articles to Robert D. Wilson and Sasa Vazic:
foamfish@gmail.com and vazicsasa@gmail.com
Robert D. Wilson & Sasa Vazic
Co-Owners, Co-Publishers, Co-Editors in Chief
The autumn quarterly issue of *Haibun Today*
now online for your reading pleasure at http://haibuntoday.com
Contributors to the current issue include Dan Allawat, Roberta Beary,
Nathalie Boisard-Beudin, Marjorie A. Buettner, Glenn G. Coats, Tish Davis,
Cherie Hunter Day, Albert DeGenova, Phuoc-Tan Diep, Lynn Edge, Jeffrey
Harpeng, Maureen Scott Harris, Michele L. Harvey, Ed Higgins, Ruth Holzer,
Gerry Jacobson, Gary LeBel, Chen-ou Liu, Victor Maddalena, Francis Masat,
Robert Moyer, Ralph Murre, Eduardo N. del Valle, Stanley Pelter, Dru
Philippou, Patricia Prime, Ray Rasmussen, Mark Ritchie, Bruce Ross, Cynthia
Rowe, Adelaide B. Shaw, Mark Smith, Richard Straw, Linda Jeannette Ward,
Theresa Williams and Jeffrey Winke.
Continue reading "Haibun Today (September 2010) now online" »
Notes From the Gean, September 2010
The September issue of ‘Notes From the Gean’ is now online.
http://www.geantree.com/indexcover.html
Beginning with this issue, ‘Notes From the Gean’ has the additional feature of a renga/ renku section, edited by Alan Summers of the U.K. Alan’s haiku beginnings were in Australia back in the 1990s, so give him a warm and enthusiastic welcome with your renku submissions.
Submissions of haiku, tanka, haiga, haibun and renga/ renku are invited for the December issue of ‘Notes From the Gean’. The deadline for the December issue is September 30th. Please see the submissions page for full details of how to submit your work.
- Lorin Ford
haiku editor, ‘Notes From the Gean’
The latest issue of Famous Reporter (http://walleahpress.com.au/subs.html) contains haiku by Lynette Arden, Sandra Simpson, Anne Benjamin, Beverley George, Graham Nunn, Maeve Archibald, Carmel Summers, Sharon Dean, Kathy Kituai, Lorin Ford, Greg Piko, Dawn Bruce, Carla Sari, Susan Murphy, Judith E.P. Johnson, Leonie Bingham, Peter Macrow, Arjun von Caemmerer, John Turner, Bob Jones and Ross Bolleter.
Submissions for the next issue #42 should be sent to the guest editor Janice Bostok janbos@dodo.com.au by end of September.
http://haikudreamingaustralia.info/
Haiku Dreaming Australia – June 2010 Report
Origin:
Haiku Dreaming Australia started in 2006 as an online publication to encourage the writing of haiku relevant to Australia, and to provide a permanent display of the best of these. The background and rationale are given in Dreaming’s online articles.
How it Works:
I, as editor, review haiku publications and select material for the Dreaming Collection. In addition many poets directly submit their poems (over 1000 to date) and editors draw my attention to poems they think I should consider. In 2009 I sponsored an international haiku competition (Judges: Janice Bostok, Lorin Ford, Ron Moss and Rob Scott) which yielded 28 haiku for Dreaming, including 8 from overseas. Of the thousands of haiku considered in the last four years I have accepted and published 362.
I remove haiku from the Collection to the Dreaming Archives as guided by peer reviews I receive. 134 of the 362 haiku selected have since been removed to the Archives leaving 228 currently in the Collection. At this stage 200-250 seems a reasonable population.. Of the initial 120 haiku published in 2006, 19 survive.
Continue reading "Haiku Dreaming Australia – June 2010 Report" »
The summer quarterly issue of Haibun Today is now online for your reading pleasure at http://haibuntoday.com
Contributors to the current issue include Hortensia Anderson, Owen Bullock, Anton Capri, Glenn G. Coats, David Cobb, Tish Davis, Cherie Hunter Day, Charles Hansmann, Jeffrey Harpeng, Michele L. Harvey, Keith Heiberg, Graham High, Ruth Holzer, Marleen Hulst, Roger Jones, Bob Lucky, Mary Mageau, Johannes Manjrekar, Francis Masat, Renée Owen, Dru Philippou, Patricia Prime, Ray Rasmussen, Bruce Ross, Cynthia Rowe, Mark Smith, Richard Straw, Diana Webb and Theresa Williams.
Writers are now invited to submit haibun and articles for consideration in the September 2010 issue of Haibun Today. Consult our Submission Guidelines at Haibun Today. Forward any submissions by email to Jeffrey Woodward, Editor, at haibun.today@gmail.com
The fifth issue of 'Notes From the Gean' , Vol. 2, Issue 1 - June 2010, is now online.
http://www.geantree.com/indexcover.html
'Notes From the Gean' publishes English-language haiku, tanka, haiga, haibun and renku.
We welcome your submissions for Vol. 2, Issue 2 up until close of submissions on the 30th of June.
-Lorin Ford, haiku editor
"Notes From the Gean"
the online journal of Gean Tree Press
Haiku submissions for the June issue of Famous Reporter have closed. Submissions for the December issue can be sent to guest editor Janice Bostok at janbos@dodo.com.au before 30 September, 2010.
A new haiku/tanka journal has been started by Dick Whyte and Laurence
Stacey. The purpose of this journal is to explore current events and
news items through the poetic forms of haiku, senryu, tanka and kyoka.
There have been many attempts to marry the news with haiku poetry on
the internet, but as Liam Wilkinson wrote, "often using the 5-7-5
model... It’s the kind of thing to which serious writers, readers and
students of haiku and related forms would have a strong aversion."
(read the rest of Liam's article here:
http://prunejuice.wordpress.com/2009/09/06/haiku-news/)
The World Haiku Club is pleased to announce the March 2009 issue of World Haiku Review. It can be accessed at:
http://worldhaikureview.googlepages.com/home
Click on this URL and when the magazine's home page comes up click on the current issue link indicated as Volume 7 Issue 1, March 2009. If you wish to go directly to the new issue, visit:
http://worldhaikureview.googlepages.com/worldhaikureview5
Call for submissions will be found on the 'Submissions Guidelines' there, or visit: http://worldhaikureview.googlepages.com/aboutworldhaikureview
We are planning the next issue to be published around July/August 2009 (the publication date has not yet been decided) which will continue to focus mainly on haiku. So, please start sending in your finest works.
Visit the site:
http://www.geocities.com/ana_vazic/indexeng.htm
Contents:
Haiku Contests
Essays, Criticisms, Analyses, Interviews...
James W. Hackett: “Haiku” and “Haiku Poetry”
H.F. Noyes: The Vanishing Act in Haiku
D. Anakiev: Unknown Mind in Haiku
John Martone: The Way of Poetry
Haiku Gallery:
Marc di Saverio
Ljiljana Đuričić
an'ya
Ljudmila Milena Mršić
Đurđa Vukelić-Rožić
Ed Baker
Max Verhart
Jack Fruit Moon by Robert D. Wilson; published by Modern English Tanka Press, Baltimore, Maryland 21236, USA; pp. 204; ISBN 978-0-9817691-4-1; preface by Dr. Steven D. Carter; forward by Sanford Goldstein.
You've known me for years, better than anyone else. That's what Robert says. And I stop to think.... Never seen that man. Does he even exist? Could be as I used to get a coltrane's e-mails with a bulk of haiku, tanka, haibun... almost every day for some two or three years... I did not even have time to take a breath, to calm down my feelings. It was almost unbearable. The e-mail man never asked how I felt nor such a banal question as is: do you like my poems? I used to call him shadowman....a man from the shadow during those days. He had nothing against each other... So, we agreed. I know him.
almost 60
this gnarled tree reminds
me of an old
man riding a bicycle
in his underwear
Continue reading "Saša Važić reviews Jack Fruit Moon by Robert D. Wilson" »
Lorin Ford's haiku collection, a wattle seedpod, has been warmly reviewed by Matthew Paul in Presence #37 [UK] . The review quotes eight of Ford's haiku, carefully selected to showcase the range of her work. Mention is also made of the 'beautiful artwork' by Ron Moss. The book is available from www.postpressed.com.au
Engineering Tanka Prose & Haibun:
Considerations Arising from the Tanka Prose Anthology
The Tanka Prose Anthology. Edited with an Introduction by Jeffrey Woodward.
Baltimore, MD: Modern English Tanka Press, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-9817691-3-4.
Perfect Bound, 6” x 9”, 176 pp., $12.95 USD.
Contributors to the anthology: Hortensia Anderson, Marjorie Buettner, Sanford Goldstein, Larry Kimmel, Gary LeBel, Bob Lucky, Terra Martin, Giselle Maya, Linda Papanicolaou, Stanley Pelter, Patricia Prime, Jane Reichhold, Werner Reichhold, Miriam Sagan, Katherine Samuelowicz, Karma Tenzing Wangchuk, Linda Jeannette Ward, Michael Dylan Welch, Jeffrey Woodward.
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Announcing the release of Haiga Moments: Pens & Lens, a delightful little volume of photographically illustrated Haiku/Senryu poetry, by photographer Raymond Belcourt and Haiku poet Dr. Ignatius Fay.
The authors’ styles are rooted in a visceral understanding and appreciation of the world around us at its most elemental, most unadorned. Their work reveals deep-rooted fascination with nature and a need to express their observations through their particular art forms. The result is more than a simple linking of photograph to verse. At times poignant, pointed, irreverent, even humorous, these Haiga are always engaging, thoughtprovoking.
Continue reading "Members Publication - Haiga Moments: Pens & Lens" »
Members’ Publications: Lorin Ford
a wattle seedpod – published by Post Pressed 2008
109 haiku by Lorin Ford, original cover art by Ron Moss
ISBN 978-1921214-34-9, 36pp, AU$10.00 + p&p
Book cover, a sample page and mini-reviews by Ferris Gilli, Beverley George and Lyn Reeves are available for viewing at:
http://www.postpressed.com.au/
Mini-review by Jane Reichhold :
My copy of a wattle seedpod just arrived yesterday and though I will be reviewing it in the October issue of Lynx I wanted you to have my first impressions.
The popularity of Haiku in India is growing rapidly
as a review by Charles Trumball of a book edited by Angelee Deodhar shows.
You will also find news of a book of haiku by children
'Sketching Light' published by Ginninderra Press 2008
ISBN 978l 74027 4760, 92pp, $20.00
Dawn Bruce's sustained engagement with Japanese poetic genres informs her free verse too, imbuing it with spare elegance and a keen sense of the immediate. This is disciplined writing that prunes the extraneous and allows us to see the clear images upon which this poet bases her commentary on human experience. Dawn's love of and commitment to poetry is evident in every line.'- Beverley George
Available from: Dawn Bruce contact through somersetpoets@ozemail.com.au $20 including postage
or Gleebooks Sydney $20 plus postage www.gleebooks.com.au for details
or from Ginnindera Press...see website www.ginninderrapress.com.au
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
each in own future: 55 tanka & unrelated randomly placed photographs from many places
(DVD: tanka & photographs); 324/50 Macquarie St, Teneriffe Qld: Postpressed, 2007
sleeping suburbs apart: conversations with ex-husbands & lovers
(poems, tanka and haiku); Flaxton: PostPressed, 2005.
self portrait with sand: postcards from various places
Flaxton: PostPressed, 2002.
noticing the view: haiku & other poems.
Flaxton: PostPressed, 1999.
For price and availability, contact the author at: ksamuelowicz@optusnet.com.au
Ron Moss, a former Secretary of Haiku Oz and Regional Rep for Tasmania, has a stunning new portfolio of haiga for viewing at http://www.haigaonline.com/issue8-2/contemporary.html
The haiku and paintings are inspired by his voluntary work as a fiery. Congratulations, Ron.
MEMBERS PUBLICATION - Quendryth Young (quendrythyoung@bigpond.com)
The Whole Body Singing - Produced by Dragonwick. 90 pages.
Available from the author: 5 Cedar Court, Alstonville, NSW, 2477. $15 plus $2 P&P.
These are haiku of celebration and honest recording in which elements of the diverse environment of coastal, northern New South Wales are given their full due. Respect for the genre’s tradition is evident in these honed observations but their ambience is local and their time is now. The Whole Body Singing makes a valid contribution to the development of English-language haiku written in the southern hemisphere.
Beverley George
President: Australian Haiku Society
Regional Rep Martina Taeker has a review of Spinifex published in the latest issue of Famous Reporter. You can read it online at: http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/index.php?s=Taeker
There are now eight reviews of empty garden : Beverley George's tanka collection, listed on www.eucalypt.info under empty garden. Four of these reviews may be accessed online. The two most recent reviews are by South African tanka poet, Maria Steyn, In Ribbons the journal of the Tanka Society of America and by Japanese poet, Aya Yuhki, in The Tanka Journal {Japan].
Most members of HaikuOz would know Janice Bostok for her work in haiku, tanka, and other Japanese forms. Her latest book release has been called 'an extended haibun' by its publisher. It is the story in verse and prose of her feelings and time spent raising a profoundly handicapped son.
Details of the book and how to order it are available from PostPressed: www.postpressed.com.au
Sasa Vazic, muddy shoes candy heart (Peaks Press, 202 Merrywood Drive, Forest, Virginia 24551). Edited by Anita Virgil. The author reads her poems in English. They are accompanied by photography and music of the Balkans. The CD concludes with a brief movie version. $20.00 incl. S&H. Order by check or money order payable to Anita Virgil, avirgil2@verizon.net
A review by Robert L Wilson of Beverley George's tanka anthology empty garden is now available on Simply Haiku Spring 2007
www.simplyhaiku.com/
Previous reviews of this book may be found on www.eucalypt.info under the heading empty garden
Oil Slick Sun: haiku
by Peter Macrow
ISBN 0 9578436 7 4
published by Pardalote Press
125 x 180 mm, 64pp, colour cover, paperback, perfect bound
Price: $AU 18.50
available from http://www.pardalote.com.au
Peter’s poems have a soft resonance of resignation, a quiet recognition of the beauty of things past, and pointing to the aesthetics of death in a secularly spiritual way, which perhaps the ancient masters could only do through a Buddhist veil. Maria Flutsch, University of Tasmania
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oil slick sun is a fascinating text, not afraid of “difficulty” but not seeming to indulge in it for its own sake. A fluid sense of time, place, individual and family generates complexes of meaning and feeling with which most readers will be able to empathise. Macrow’s use of a briefer line in his haiku than the traditional 5/7/5 syllable form, his ability to use the structure in a very accomplished and thorough way and to challenge and subvert orthodox beliefs about the process and purpose of haiku, makes for thought-provoking reading. Patricia Prime, Stylus
Watching pilgrims watching me: haiku from Shangri-la Deqen Tibetan Region
by Jodie Hawthorne
ISBN 0 9578436 8 2
published by Pardalote Press
125 x 180 mm, 64pp, colour cover, paperback, perfect bound
Price: $AU 18.50
available from http://www.pardalote.com.au
‘a book of gentle grace’ - Christopher Bantick, The Sunday Tasmanian
Deqen's landscape evokes a sense of calm and healing that provides a perfect environment for artistic expression. These qualities, combined with the constant challenges, paradoxes and inconsistencies, brought into being the haiku moments of this collection.
today
just mountains
and people who love them
a new haiku collection by Beverley George, Spinifex contains many of her prize-winning haiku and haiku sequences.
Spinifex: haiku
by Beverley George
ISBN 0 957843609 0
published by Pardalote Press
125 x 180 mm, 60pp, colour cover, paperback, perfect bound
Price: $AU 18.50
available from http://www.pardalote.com.au
Availability: Collected Works Bookshop; Beaumaris Books; Flat Chat Press (email
flatchatpress@nmit.vic.edu.au), or the author (suse@optusnet.com.au)
Cost: $20 (plus $5 for handling and postage)
Beverley George's tanka collection, empty garden, is now available.
Details and an order form are on www.eucalypt.info see empty garden.
This small book is exquisitely designed and is printed on quality gloss paper.
To read a review by Dave Bacharach, published on Modern English Tanka, go to
http://www.modernenglishtanka.com/digital/2006d/emptygardenreview.html
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Eucalypt: a tanka journal is the first Australian literary magazine devoted entirely to the 1300 year old genre from Japan which has so much relevance to the way we think and feel today. Information is available from www.eucalypt.info or by writing with an SSAE to Beverley George, Editor: Eucalypt, PO Box 37 Pearl Beach 2256 Australia |
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