The 4 May 2013 meeting of Bindii group was held at the Box Factory in Adelaide. from 12:00 to 3:00 Eleven participated, including both experienced and new haiku poets. There were also nine apologies for the meeting. The workshop was organized by Lee Bentley and Lynette Arden.
International Japanese Poet
Mariko Kitakubo
&
Beverley George
presenting Japan’s oldest and most popular form of poetry
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In our new format for 2013 we are running three hour workshops. The first of these was a workshop on tanka given by Lynette Arden.
Tanka Workshop
The workshop covered the following topics:
1. The origin of Japanese written language and its close ties with written Chinese.
2. The influence of Tang Dynasty China on Japanese culture and a look at the lifestyle of the most famous period of Japanese literature, the Heian.
3. Poetic styles used by Japanese poets in writing tanka, including poetic devices. This included a look at Japanese tanka in the original hiragana, Romaji and English translation and a comparison of various English translations.
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Ten members and visitors attended the December meeting of the Bindii group. This was a social gathering for our final meeting for 2012.
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Nine members and visitors attended out November meeting at the Box Factory in Adelaide for a workshop on haibun presented by Maeve Archibald.
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The Bindii Group met at the Box Factory for a haibun workshop presented by Belinda Broughton. Belinda distributed notes, which included examples of haibun, and briefly discussed the origins of the form and the requirements for writing haibun, such as issues of style and tense, how many haiku should be included and what topics were suitable.
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Bindii Ginko Saturday August 4th 2012
For our August meeting, Bindii members attended a ginko at the Art Gallery. Some sought inspiration at a special exhibition, while others wandered through the art works, and into the sights and sounds of North Terrace.
The Bindii group met at the Box Factory, 59 Regent St South, Adelaide from 10.30 am to 12.40 pm. Minutes of the meeting are provided below.
The Bindii group met at the Box Factory, 59 Regent St South, Adelaide from 10.30 am to 12.30 pm Minutes of the meeting are provided below:
The Bindii group met at the Box Factory, 59 Regent St South, Adelaide from 10.30 am to 1 pm on a very pleasant autumn morning. Minutes of the meeting are provided below.
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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.
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The Adelaide based, Bindii poetry group has released its first publication.
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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.
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Lyn Arden conducted a workshop on haiku/senryu. The workshop touched on the origins of senryu, varying definitions of senryu, opinions about what might be called haiku or senryu, a look at examples of 19th and 20th century Japanese senryu and examples of senryu written in English by various authors. Members of the group then shared and workshopped some of their senryu.
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Bindii Japanese Genre Poetry Group are delighted to invite you to the launch of Haiku Bindii Vol. 1 Journeys 2011, to be launched by:
Mr Adam Wynn, Hon. Consul-General for Japan in South Australia
This is a free event. Please join us at the Box Factory 159 Regent St South, Adelaide from 4 pm on 3 December 2011. Refreshments will be served and there will be readings by the Bindii poets.
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We met at Veale Gardens on South Terrace at the Wisteria Arbour at 11 am. The weather had been showery for a few days, but we were fortunate on the day of the ginko to have fine weather, with only a slight sprinkle of rain just as we were finishing lunch.
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MINUTES OF BINDII MEETING 3 September 2011
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Present: Lyn Arden, Marilyn Linn, Alex Ask, Lee Bentley, Athena Zaknic, Belinda Broughton, Pam Brow, Margaret Rawlinson Maeve Archibald, Dawn Colsey.
Apologies: Margaret Fensom.
General Business: Haiku Bindii blog will be posting weekly challenges and a Showcase
selected by members each month. The first Showcase was selected by members.
Anthology: Our anthology is now in preparation. Orders are being taken. If you haven’t yet placed an order at $5 per copy please email Lyn to place your order.
Meeting: Alex Ask ran a workshop Talking about Tanka. Members also workshopped their tanka. Thanks to Alex for an excellent presentation and to members for a good discussion.
The Adelaide based Bindii Group held a kukai at their 6 August meeting and members enjoyed sharing the haiku brought in by other members.
Further details are shown below:
Lynette Arden has just started a blog for the Bindii Haiku Group, called Haiku Bindii. The blog is only new but will provide a convenient way to keep up to date with the haiku happenings of the Adelaide based group. The blog can be found at:
Workshopping of members’ work: Each member shared Renku and haiku and also requested suggestions and improvements from other members.
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Renku Workshop: Lyn Arden gave a workshop on writing Renku. History and principles were outlined and then we divided into two groups to write shisan Renku. The shisan Renku started in this session will be continued by email and presented for feedback at the July meeting.
On 7th May, 2011, Bindii met at the Box Factory on Regent Street South, Adelaide, from 10.30am to 1pm. Seven people attended, some were new members. The group was facilitated by Alexander Ask in the absence of Lyn Arden, who was away.
The workshop was presented in 3 x two hour sequential sessions. I planned the workshop this way as I considered the work too intensive to be conducted effectively in a one day session. Likewise the aspects I wanted to cover required more than 1 x two hour session, which is our usual time unit.
The aim of the workshop was to work towards a Haibun of approx 600 words and including a minimum of 3 haiku. I chose this frame as giving more than adequate opportunity for exploring both prose and poetry as poetic elements of expression in the Haibun genre.
Maeve Archibald
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Present: Maeve Archibald, Lesley Charlesworth, Veronica Shanks, Athena Zaknic, Lyn Arden, Belinda Broughton, Helen Pryor, Jill Gower, Judith Ahmed, Margaret Rawlinson.
Apologies: Margaret Fensom, Rosemary Davidson, Rachael Mead, Marilyn Linn.
General Business:
The Bindii reading at the State Library of South Australia on Wed 16th March, organized by Friendly St poets, was received very well by the large audience who attended. There were six performers from the Bindii group, representing the work of 16 Bindii poets. Gong and drum music accompanied the readings and Athena Zaknic sang some of her work and that of Judith Ahmed. We were fortunate to have a Japanese reader for historic Japanese tanka from the Heian period, Mr Ikeda, who also read his own tanka. Translations of the Japanese tanka into English were also read.
FORTHCOMING MEETINGS:
7 May meeting: Alex Ask has agreed to run the meeting. Format to be advised.
4 June meeting: Lyn Arden will run a workshop on writing Renku, the collaborative form(s) of Japanese poetry that has seen a resurgence in the Western World in recent years.
2 July meeting: A workshop on senryu is being considered.
Bindii anthology: we are in the process of collecting work from Bindii members for an anthology. Closing date for submissions will be 6 August 2011.
Haibun Workshop: At today’s meeting Maeve Archibald presented the third of her informative and stimulating workshops on writing haibun. The series appears to have been very successful in meeting its aims, as those who undertook the workshops have produced a number of well written haibun. Maeve will make a separate report on her workshops.
The meeting finished at 1 pm.
Lynette Arden
Friendly Street Poets and the State Library of South Australia will present late afternoon performances of Japanese Poetry Genres in Adelaide on Wednesday 16 March.
The readings will run from 5:30pm to 6:15pm at the Treasures Wall, upstairs in the State Library, North Terrace Adelaide. Light refreshments will be provided.
The event will include traditional Japanese poetry, contemporary poetry by Hiromichi Ikeda and poetry composed by members of the Bindii Poetry Group. Poems will be read by Maeve Archibald, Lynette Arden, Belinda Broughton, Dawn Colsey, Jill Gower and Athena Zaknic.
Present: Maeve Archibald, Lesley Charlesworth, Veronica Shanks, Athena Zaknic, Lyn Arden, Belinda Broughton, Helen Pryor, Jill Gower, Rosemary Davidson, Judith Ahmed, Dawn Colsey, Rachael Mead, Margaret Rawlinson.
Apologies: Pam Brow, Robin Sinclair, Marilyn Linn, Alex Ask, Belinda Broughton, Margaret Fensom, Noela Maletz.
General Business:
Bindii reading at the State Library of South Australia. 5.30 pm on Wed 16th March. The event is the first of the series of monthly readings at the Treasures Wall in the library organized by Friendly St poets for 2011. The work of 16 of our poets is represented. Readers: Jill Gower, Athena Zaknic, Maeve Archibald, Dawn Colsey, Belinda Broughton, Lyn Arden. Belinda and Lyn will also perform some gong music to accompany the readings and Athena will sing some of her works and that of Judith Ahmed. Flyer for the event has been emailed to members.
FORTHCOMING MEETINGS:
19 March and 2 April meeting: Maeve Archibald will continue her workshop on writing haibun Anyone who has not contacted Maeve will need to contact her to register for the last two sessions.
7 May meeting: Alex Ask has agreed to run the meeting.
4 June meeting: Lyn Arden will run a workshop on writing Renku, the collaborative form(s) of Japanese poetry that has seen a resurgence in the Western World in recent years. One can write Renku by meeting together or by email. It is hoped that more members will want to try the form(s) after the workshop. Renku come in many sizes and there are a number of rules (guidelines), so it does represent a learning curve.
Haibun Workshop: At today’s meeting Maeve Archibald presented the first of her informative and stimulating workshops on writing haibun. There was much enthusiasm among members.
The meeting finished at 12.45 pm and at 1 pm a rehearsal for the State Library readings was held.
Lynette Arden
Present: Marilyn Linn, Lesley Charlesworth, Alex Ask, Veronica Shanks, Athena Zaknic, Lynette Arden, Belinda Broughton, Margaret Fensom, Helen Pryor, Jill Gower.
Apologies: Pam Brow, Maeve Archibald, Robin Sinclair, Margaret Rawlinson.
General Business:
Alex Ask Treasurer took charge of the group funds of $70. Current email lists have been sent to Alex Ask, Maeve Archibald and Belinda Broughton. With my computer difficulties this is a good safeguard and helpful to the running of the group. Thank you to these people. We run as a cooperative group and welcome contributions of help from members.
Donation to Box factory facilities: Maeve Archibald bought and presented to the Box Factory Community our gift of a biscuit tin and serving bowls.
FORTHCOMING MEETINGS:
5 March Meeting, 19 March and 2 April meeting: Maeve Archibald has prepared a workshop on writing haibun (prose plus haiku). Members will need to register to attend.
7 May meeting: Alex Ask has agreed to run the meeting.
TANKA WORKSHOP: Lyn Arden conducted a workshop on writing tanka. The workshop briefly covered some of the history of the form in Japanese literature, with examples of Japanese tanka, both early and modern read to the group. This was followed by reading of tanka in English and some discussion of the usual ways of writing tanka, both in English and Japanese.
As part of the workshop, we had brief exercises in ‘show and tell’ and some discussion of how to show by using metaphor and placing images side by side for the reader to interpret. We then had a couple of exercises writing tan renga as an introduction to the construction of a tanka. Tan renga consist of two sections of three and two lines written by two people.
Lynette Arden 5 February 2011
Several members of the Bindii group were interviewed by Radio Adelaide recently. The interview will be broadcast on Radio Adelaide 101.50 FM on Tues 25 January at 3.30 pm (half hour program).
The program will also be broadcast on the Internet from the Radio Adelaide Web Site http://radio.adelaide.edu.au/listenonline/
It is a streaming broadcast, so if you are located in the Eastern States it will be broadcast at 3 pm local time.
We were interviewed about the origin of the various Japanese forms, mainly tanka, renga /renku and haiku. We read some translations of the masters Basho, Buson, Issa and Shiki. We also read a selection of tanka and haiku written by group members and a collaborative renku composed by three Bindii members.
Lynette Arden
Bindii
(SA Japanese Poetry Forms Group)
Present: Pam Brow, Marilyn Linn, Maeve Archibald, Alex Ask, Robin Sinclair, Veronica Shanks, Athena Zaknic, Lynette Arden, Margaret Rawlinson, Margaret Fensom.
Apologies: Sally Hunter, Lesley Charlesworth.
General Business:
Alex Ask has agreed to be our Treasurer and Alex and Maeve Archibald will also hold a bulk list of members’ email addresses to aid effective communication in the group. Margaret Fensom has also been sent a list of the email addresses. Thank you to these people.
Donation to Box Factory facilities: $40 was collected from members present as a voluntary contribution and Maeve Archibald will buy something needed by the Box Factory Community.
Box Factory Market and Readings Sat 12 December 2010: Members of Bindii will be involved in the performance of poetry from 12.30 to 1 pm.
FORTHCOMING MEETINGS:
January: no meeting.
February: Lynette Arden will present a tanka workshop.
5 March Meeting, 19 March and 2 April meeting: Maeve Archibald has prepared a workshop on writing haibun. Members will need to register to attend. Owing to space and other constraints, 12 will be the maximum number of participants.
MEETING OF 4 DECEMBER:
A Renku, Last Summer’s Bushfire written by Lynette Arden, Marilyn Linn and Alex Ask has been accepted for publication in a new international Renku Journal. The authors read the Renku to the group.
We then held a 20 minute ginko to compose haiku. The weather, at a forecast of 36 degrees, was ideal for our subject of summer haiku.
For the remainder of the meeting we selected and arranged haiku from the ginko and other haiku brought by members to compose a sequence on a summer theme. Maeve Archibald will send the resulting sequence to those participating for any further comments.
The meeting concluded with those members able to stay joining in the lunch provided by the Box Factory Community.
Lynette Arden 4 December 2010
(Box Factory, Regent Street, Adelaide)
Present: Alex Ask, Maeve Archibald, Athena Zaknic, Margaret Fensom, Margaret Rawlinson, Veronica Shanks.
Apologies: Lyn Arden, Dawn Colsey, Marilyn Linn.
We started our meeting by introducing two new members, Margaret Rawlinson and Veronica Shanks, who were informed during the Graham Nunn workshop on Thursday evening that Bindii would be meeting on November 6.
We discussed some of the fundamentals of Haiku (i.e. revering nature, fragment / phrase, kigo), which were discussed in detail by Graham Nunn on the Thursday evening and re-iterated here.
We then decided to spend 30 minutes outside the Box Factory writing several Haiku. We returned to the meeting room approximately 11.30am and then proceeded to place our newly written Haiku on the white board. All members provided input on how to improve the Haiku etc. We participated in two rounds of Haiku reviews for each member.
At the conclusion of the meeting, we were all excited at the progress we made during our meeting. We discussed the importance of spending some or all of the meeting outside writing Poetry, rather than being stuck in the room all meeting.
December Meeting: Box Factory: We await Lyn’s return to discuss the topic of the next meeting, however I recommend, based on our discussions, that we involve interaction with nature at some stage where we can write some Haiku or Tanka.
Next Year: Maeve explained that she would like to run a workshop over three sessions (two hours each session) on Haibun. We discussed the format of running it over two Bindii meetings with a session in between the monthly meetings. That is, she would run the three sessions over a month period. We can discuss when she will run the workshop during the December meeting.
The meeting concluded at 1pm.
Minutes taken by Alex Ask November 7, 2010
Members Present: Lynette Arden, Marilyn Linn, Maeve Archibald, Margaret Fensom, Belinda Broughton, Athena Zaknic. Visitors: Jeff, Irvine.
The ginko began at 11.00 am. Then the group split up so people could take advantage of the beautiful weather and scenery to walk around the gardens taking notes and pictures or perch in a favoured spot on a rock or carved bench.
Some of the trees were in blossom and others beginning to show a hint of green. Ducks perched on rocks in the centre of the lake and the sound of water rushing, trickling or dropping could be heard from many vantage points. Dragonflies swung back and forth over the waterlilies in the central lake and the occasional bird (noisy miners and swallows) darted from tree to tree through the sunshine and shade and swooped over the lake. Waterlilies were beginning to flower and arum lilies were in full bloom.
After the ginko we assembled again in the teahouse at midday to eat a picnic lunch while contemplating the rocks and raked sand. We then wrote up and circulated some of our haiku or tanka for any helpful contributions of advice and comment.
From the comments of members present, I gather this was a very popular spot for our ginko on such a beautiful day. Himeji Gardens at a perfect moment.
after lunch
sharing the different flavours
of our haiku
Our next meeting will be held in the Box Factory on Sat 6 November at 10.30 am.
Lynette Arden
Present: Marilyn Linn, Lyn Arden, Susan Kay, Alex Ask.
Apologies: Athena Zaknic, Dianne Hill, Pam Brow, Margaret Dingle (Fensom), Maeve Archibald, Dawn Colsey.
Meeting on a wild and windy day in Adelaide, we were glad of our sheltered place in the Box Factory.
We held a kukai, followed by discussion of some haiku that members wished to workshop and then looked at the renku form, including a renku currently being composed by three members of the group via email.
October Meeting: we decided to make this a ginko (haiku walk) at the Himeji Gardens in South Terrace. Meet at the Himeji Garden and bring lunch.
Lynette Arden 4 Sept 2010