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/)

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Posted by Graham Nunn at 04:47 PM | Permalink

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.

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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

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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
 

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Posted by Graham Nunn at 10:13 AM | Permalink

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

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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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Posted by Graham Nunn at 04:41 PM | Permalink

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" »

Posted by Graham Nunn at 09:59 AM | Permalink

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.

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Posted by Graham Nunn at 05:38 PM | Permalink

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

http://www.modernhaiku.org/bookreviews/IndiaHaiku2008.html

Posted by Beverley George at 08:29 AM | Permalink

'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

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Posted by Graham Nunn at 05:25 PM | Permalink

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

Posted by Graham Nunn at 12:28 PM | Permalink

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

Posted by Graham Nunn at 02:13 PM | Permalink

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.

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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

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Posted by Graham Nunn at 05:22 PM | Permalink

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

Posted by Graham Nunn at 08:04 AM | Permalink

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].

Posted by Graham Nunn at 08:02 AM | Permalink

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

Posted by Beverley George at 11:25 AM | Permalink

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

Posted by Robyn Smith at 11:42 AM | Permalink

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

Posted by Graham Nunn at 06:54 PM | Permalink

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

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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

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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

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Posted by Robyn Smith at 10:53 PM | Permalink

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

Posted by Graham Nunn at 08:08 AM | Permalink

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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• Banana Leaves - Privately Printed. Australia, 1972. Early Haiku. No longer available.
• Walking Into The Sun - Shelters Press, USA, 1974. Haiku and tanka. No longer available.
• Hearing The Wind - Privately Printed. Australia, 1976. Haiku. No longer available
• On Sparse Brush - Makar Gargoyle Poets Series, UQP, Brisbane, Australia, 1978. ISBN O 909353 23 5 Free verse and haiku. No longer available.
• Silver Path of Moon - PostPressed, Brisbane, Australia, 1996. 1996 ISBN 0 656 29477 6. Five erotic haibun. Available from PostPressed.
• Still Waters - EarthDance, Cape Patterson, Australia, 1996. Haiku and artwork (by Cornelis Vleeskens) Available from author. $5.
• The Farmer Tends His Land - Tiny Poems Press, Enfield, USA, 1997. A solo renga. No longer available..
• Shadow-Patches - Hallard Press, Auckland, New Zealand, 1998. ISBN 0-86477-045-6. Haibun by Janice M. Bostok, Catherine Mair and Bernard Gadd. No longer available..
• A Splash of Sunlight - Privately Printed, Australia, 1998. ISBN 0 9597523 2 3. Haiku. Available from the author. $7.
• Dimmed The Mystery - Snapshot Press, England, 2000. ISBN 0 9526773 2 6. Tanka. Available from the publisher -- see their website.
• Reaching Out From Dreaming - Privately Printed. Australia, 2001. Tanka. Available from the author. $5.
• Amongst the Graffiti - Printed by Post Pressed, 31 Allara St, Flaxton, Qld 4560 www.postpressed.com.au ISBN 1 87668246 9. Haiku. 104pp. Available from publisher. AU$20.00 + AU$3.00 in Australian (see site for overseas prices) see publisher's introduction
• Songs Once Sung - Available from PostPressed
• Two Thirds of Why - Impressed Publishing. Available from the author.

Posted by Robyn Smith at 09:10 PM | Permalink

• Speaking with Ghosts - Ginninderra Press, 2002. 68 pages. ISBN 1 74027 144 0. Price $18 plus $4 p&p within Australia Available from the publisher:- PO Box 53, Charnwood, ACT 2615 Publisher's Order Form http://www.ginninderrapress.com.au/order.html
• Walking the Tideline - Pardalote Press, 2001. 52 pages. ISBN 0 9578436 0 7. Price $12 (includes postage within Australia) Available from the publisher:- 44 Bayside Drive, Lauderdale, Tasmania 7021

Posted by Robyn Smith at 09:01 PM | Permalink

Contact Graham at: jennyandgraham@optusnet.com.au

• a zen firecracker: selected haiku - Impressed Publishing, 50 Baynes St. Highgate Hill, Brisbane, Queensland, 4101. ISBN 0-9751618-1-4; illustrated by Rowan Donovan, with an introduction by Janice M. Bostok. Available from Impressed by emailing David Weekes - inobscurity@iprimus.com.au -or- by emailing the author.

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