The 18th issue of A Hundred Gourds, a quarterly journal of haiku, haibun, haiga, tanka and renku poetry, is now available for your reading pleasure.

http://www.ahundredgourds.com/

Please note:

1. AHG will cease publication with our next issue, AHG 5.3, in June 2016.

AHG 5.3, our 19th issue, will be published in June. It will be our final issue, so be sure to send all submissions by the deadline of March 15th. Submissions received after the deadline will not be considered.

2. There will be no renku section in AHG 5.3

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Posted by Rodney Williams at 10:07 PM | Permalink

Otata mo aru hi wa kite kureru yama no aki fukaku

Otata will come again
one day
late fall in the mountains

— Santoka, as translated by Burton Watson

As Watson notes, “Otata was a woman who went around selling fish in the area of Santoka’s cottage in Matsuyama.”

An e-zine of haiku and other short poems, ‘Otata’ appears on the last day of the month.

The ‘Otata’ e-zine can be accessed through this link:

https://otatablog.wordpress.com/2016/01/22/otata/

Continue reading "'Otata' – an e-zine of haiku and other short poems" »

Posted by Rodney Williams at 07:55 PM | Permalink

Recently Beverley George became the fourth Australian haiku poet to be honoured as a Focus Poet in the respected British haiku journal ‘Presence’ (issue #54, February, 2016).

Along with other poems of hers which have previously gained recognition elsewhere, the following new haiku by Beverley have just been featured in Focus Poet # 39 in ‘Presence’:

the haiku books
I thought I would read again
the ones I do

key in the lock our dog’s swift head count

Three other Australian haiku poets have likewise been honoured in the same way: Lorin Ford, Ron C Moss and Vanessa Proctor. Groups of both Australian and New Zealand haiku poets have also been featured in Focus pieces in ‘Presence’. (See below.)

Continue reading "Beverley George the latest Australian to be a Focus Poet in ‘Presence’" »

Posted by Rodney Williams at 11:28 PM | Permalink

While further poets are encouraged to offer selections of their work, the following Australian haiku writers already have portfolios of their haiku represented in ‘The Living Haiku Anthology’:

Dawn Bruce, Jan Dobb, Lorin Ford, Simon Hanson, Myron Lysenko, Jayashree Maniyil, Ron C,. Moss, Cynthia Rowe and Scott Terrill.

Links to these various portfolios can be found below:

Continue reading "Portfolios for Australian Haiku Poets – ‘The Living Haiku Anthology’" »

Posted by Rodney Williams at 08:42 PM | Permalink

I’m very happy to be able to announce that the nine complete issues 1.1 through to 3.1 of the quarterly journal, ‘Notes from the Gean’, for which I was haiku editor, have been recovered and are now archived on Don Baird’s website, ‘The Living Anthology’.

You’ll find them in TLA’s ‘Library Shelf’ under the heading ‘Journals’:

http://livinghaikuanthology.com/library-shelf.html

Continue reading "‘Notes from the Gean’, Resurrected – Message from Lorin Ford" »

Posted by Rodney Williams at 06:41 PM | Permalink

Australian writer Cynthia Rowe has offered her thoughts about defining what haiku is for her. Under the title 'Concision', it can be found on 'The Living Haiku Anthology' website, under 'Poets on Haiku', or it can be accessed directly through this link:

http://livinghaikuanthology.com/lha/defining-haiku/2920-concision-by-cynthia-rowe.html

A portfolio of Cynthia's haiku has also been created: it can be accessed within 'The Living Haiku Anthology' website, through this second link:

http://livinghaikuanthology.com/poet-portfolios/324-r-poets/cynthia-rowe.html

Posted by Rodney Williams at 09:43 PM | Permalink

In the latest weekly posting of the ‘re:Virals’ segment on The Haiku Foundation’s website, Australian haiku poet Jo McInerney features once again, this time through her response to the following haiku:

dry wheat grass . . .
the whiteness of
a child dying

— Robert D. Wilson, ‘A Lousy Mirror’ (2011)

As well as being reproduced here in full, below, Jo’s response can be accessed at the following link:

http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2016/02/05/revirals-21/

Continue reading "Further haiku response from Jo McInerney - THF’s ‘re: Virals 21’" »

Posted by Rodney Williams at 06:28 PM | Permalink

Australian poet Simon Hanson has had one of his poems voted as the best haiku for the year in the Shamrock Haiku Journal Readers’ Choice Awards 2015, as just published online in Shamrock No. 33 –

window ice
the garden thaws
in sparkles

- Simon Hanson

Full details about the 2015 Shamrock Readers’ Choice Awards can be accessed through the Shamrock website:

http://shamrockhaiku.webs.com/currentissue.htm

The work of a range of other Australian haiku poets has likewise been recognised in Shamrock No. 33, especially within the IHS International Haiku Competition Results 2015, as found below, but also through this link:

http://irishhaiku.webs.com/haikucompetition.htm

Continue reading "Australian poets featured in Shamrock No. 33" »

Posted by Rodney Williams at 10:47 AM | Permalink

Australian haiku poets are strongly encouraged to submit work towards the Living Haiku Anthology.

This is being compiled by Don Baird, Richard Gilbert and Hansha Teki.

It could become the largest international online repository of haiku.

The editors are seeking to include haiku from poets worldwide.

Representation is open to any poet who has a group of previously published haiku.

Full submission details can be found at this website:

http://livinghaikuanthology.com/

Posted by Rodney Williams at 10:03 AM | Permalink

A range of Australian haiku poets have been included in the latest edition of the ‘cattails’ haiku journal (from the UHTS), including the following three, whose work has been featured among the Editor’s Choices:

only the moon
privy to a possum's
tightrope walk

- Madhuri Pillai

outer suburb
the length of a dog’s
weekday voice

- Jan Dobb

first spring day
birdsong unravels
my knitting

- Hazel Hall

The Editor’s commentary accompanying these three haiku can be accessed through the following link, as can the text for Marietta McGregor’s haibun 'The Ten Millennium Tree', winner of second prize in the UHTS haibun contest:

http://www.unitedhaikuandtankasociety.com/

Continue reading "Australian haiku poets featured in January edition of ‘cattails’" »

Posted by Rodney Williams at 11:17 PM | Permalink

For the third time this month, Australian haiku poet Jo McInerney has been honoured by having her response chosen as the winner in the ‘re: Virals’ segment on The Haiku Foundation website. Jo’s evaluation of Janice M. Bostok’s ‘envelope’ monoku can be found below, preceded by another commentary from fellow Australian haiku poet Marietta McGregor.

As the weekly winner of ‘re: Virals’, Jo has chosen the following haiku for comment:

dry wheat grass . . .
the whiteness of
a child dying

— Robert D. Wilson, ‘A Lousy Mirror’ (2011)

For posting on Friday morning (Eastern US Time) – as before – responses to Robert D. Wilson’s haiku must be received online by midnight Tuesday (New York time). Contributors need to submit through the THF’s Contact Box – using a subject header of “re: Virals” – with guidelines available through this link:

http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2016/01/29/revirals-20/

Continue reading "Jo McInerney’s third success with ‘re: Virals’ on the THF website" »

Posted by Rodney Williams at 10:20 PM | Permalink

For the second time this month, Australian haiku poet Jo McInerney has been the winner of the weekly 're: Virals' competition on The Haiku Foundation website: Jo’s response to a haiku by Charles Easter – ‘dry heat’ – can be found below.

In the meantime, however, Jo has again been given the chance – as the latest weekly winner – to choose a haiku to which other readers could respond: following on from her selection of Lorin Ford’s ‘cellophane’ one-liner, earlier in January, this time Jo has selected a further monostich from another Australian haiku poet, Janice M. Bostok –

envelope my thumb opens the seal of his tongue

For posting on Friday morning (Eastern US Time), responses to Janice’s one-liner would need to have been received online by midnight Tuesday (New York).

Guidelines for contributing through the THF’s Contact Box – using a subject header of 're: Virals' – can be found through this link:

http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2016/01/22/revirals-19/

Continue reading "Jo McInerney chooses Janice M. Bostok haiku for new 're: Virals' response" »

Posted by Rodney Williams at 06:27 PM | Permalink

As noted in a previous item here on 'HaikuOz', the following one-liner by Australian haiku poet Lorin Ford has been posted for comment in the 're: Virals' segment of The Haiku Foundation website:

their wings like cellophane remember cellophane

— Lorin Ford, 'Roadrunner' IX:2 (2009)

Lorin’s monostich had been selected by another Australian haiku poet, Jo McInerney, as a result of Jo’s own response to a preceding haiku having been chosen by The Haiku Foundation as the weekly winner in its 're: Virals' feature.

From five responses to Lorin’s one-liner selected – in turn – for inclusion on The Haiku Foundation website, two of those newly posted comments have been written by Australian haiku poets: Jo McInerney herself once again, accompanied by Cynthia Rowe.

Responses by Jo and Cynthia to Lorin Ford’s haiku can be read below, with all five comments about her ‘cellophane’ one-liner able to be accessed through the following link:

http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2016/01/15/revirals-18

Continue reading "Australian poets featured in 're: Virals' responses chosen by The Haiku Foundation" »

Posted by Rodney Williams at 09:53 AM | Permalink

Australian haiku poet Jo McInerney has just been honoured as the winner of the weekly ‘re: Virals’ segment on The Haiku Foundation website, which provides the opportunity for readers to respond to a particular haiku of note, as chosen by the previous winner.

Jo’s response to a haiku by English poet John McManus can be read below.

Looking ahead, however, it should be noted that Jo is not only the first Australian to have a piece of haiku commentary adjudged to be a winner of ‘re: Virals’ – with her choosing the following haiku by Lorin Ford for the next set of comments, it has also meant this is the first time that the work of an Australian haiku poet has been featured for comment:

their wings like cellophane remember cellophane

- Lorin Ford, ‘Road runner’, IX: 2 (2009)

The Haiku Foundation website strongly encourages readers to comment – guidelines are provided through this link:

http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2016/01/08/revirals-17/

Continue reading "Jo McInerney a winner with THF’s ‘re: Virals’ haiku comment" »

Posted by Rodney Williams at 09:21 AM | Permalink

Edited by Beverley George (Blue Giraffe Press, 2016).
ISSN 1839-5449.
In Australia: $A15 for one issue a year for 2 years, postage included; elsewhere: $A25, postage included.

Review by Elaine Riddell.

There will be many looking forward to this fourth annual issue of ‘Windfall’. The first time I was shown a copy of ‘Windfall’, my response was delight. Issue 4 is a worthy successor to the previous three issues. Like its predecessors, Issue 4 has the lovely, understated Ron C. Moss cover design and a simplicity of layout. Despite being small (A6), it uses a good sized font and gives each haiku breathing space on the page. The translucent papers, which separate the cover from the body of the work, seem to say, ‘This is a treasure. Hold it with care.’

Continue reading "‘Windfall’, Australian Haiku, Issue 4, 2016 – review by Elaine Riddell" »

Posted by Rodney Williams at 04:52 PM | Permalink

‘Windfall: Australian Haiku’ Issue 4 2016 has now been mailed to all subscribers.

The issue features the work of 56 Australian poets and is published by Peter Macrow's Blue Giraffe Press, edited by Beverley George, with a cover design by Ron C Moss.

The annual submission window for 'Windfall' is July only.

Send up to six haiku relevant to life in Australia to [email protected]

Continue reading "Windfall Issue 4: 2016" »

Posted by Rodney Williams at 09:25 AM | Permalink

Selected by Jon Baldwin & Margery Newlove
Edited by Graham High
ISBN 978-1-906333-03-4
Ramsgate, Kent, The British Haiku Society, 2015 [265 pages]

This carefully selected anthology brings together fifty of the major articles published in The British Haiku Society’s ‘Blithe Spirit’ between 1992 and 2014. The selectors considered between three hundred and four hundred articles before making their choice of fifty, with no more than one by a single author. Its publication was made possible by The Sakaguchi Literary Studies fund which supports the production of special publications, and by the personal benevolence of Akiko Sakaguchi.

Continue reading "‘A Silver Tapestry: The Best Of 25 Years Of Critical Writing From The British Haiku Society’: book note - Beverley George" »

Posted by Rodney Williams at 07:54 AM | Permalink

Modern Haiku Press in the United States has released ‘Haiku 2015’, edited by Lee Gurga and Scott Metz, a selection of ‘100 notable ku from 2014’. Australian haiku poets represented include:

islands of ice
the moon
without an oar

- Lorin Ford, ��frogpond’ 37:2

nightclub
entrance strobe lit
rain

- Simon Hanson, ‘DailyHaiku’ March 17

new leaves
the old forest
finds its voice

- Rob Scott, ‘A Hundred Gourds’ 3:3

Continue reading "Australians poets included in ‘Haiku 2015’ – Modern Haiku Press" »

Posted by Rodney Williams at 06:58 PM | Permalink

The 17th issue of ‘A Hundred Gourds’, a quarterly journal of haiku, haibun, haiga, tanka and renku poetry, is now online for your reading pleasure.

http://www.ahundredgourds.com/

Renku News – Guest Editor for AHG 5.2, Kala Ramesh

Due to unforeseen circumstances, William Sorlien is not available to receive renku submissions for AHG 5.2, the March 2016 issue. Kala Ramesh has kindly agreed to be our Guest Renku Editor for the forthcoming March issue. Please read the AHG news page for further details and send your renku submissions to this address: [email protected] with ‘Renku Submission’ in the title bar.

Haiga News – New Haiga Editor, Sandi Pray

With this issue we farewell Aubrie Cox and welcome Sandi Pray as our new Haiga Editor. Please read our news page for further details.

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Posted by Rodney Williams at 07:51 PM | Permalink

Submissions towards the next northern winter edition of the World Haiku Review (the official magazine for the World Haiku Club) are open until Sunday, 20 December.

Themes – Peace or Winter subjects (yet these are only suggestions – you do not have to follow them).

Maximum number of haiku to be submitted – ten (10), not previously published or under consideration elsewhere.

Haiku poems may be offered in English, or in English translation, traditional or non-traditional in approach, on any topic, in free or formal style, kigo or muki.

Submit to both of the following email addresses please:

Susumu Takiguchi, Managing Editor & Acting-Editor-In-Chief:

[email protected]

and

Kala Ramesh, Deputy-Editor-in Chief [email protected]

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Posted by Rodney Williams at 06:56 PM | Permalink

“Prospect” is an annual poetry journal, with longer poems written by Australians and published in Australia by Blue Giraffe Press, owned and managed by Peter Macrow. “Prospect Five” is devoted to haiku and tanka, with Beverley George as guest editor. Beverley was president of Haiku Oz, the Australian Haiku Society. She edits and publishes "Eucalypt," a tanka publication, conducts workshops, and writes essays and children's books. Her tanka and haiku have earned awards, and some have been translated into Japanese. The cover image and design are by Ron C. Moss, and Rebus Press had charge of layout.

The journal as a whole is unmistakably and delightfully Australian. While some of the vocabulary is special to that country, the themes and emotions are universal. With a few exceptions, I was able to understand and appreciate the poems without resorting to a dictionary, though I did look up some words for their precise meaning and enjoyed this verbal visit to a country and continent so far away.

Haiku, usually three-line poems, are here arranged four to a page, while tanka, which have five lines, are three to a page. They are divided, ten pages of haiku, twelve of tanka, and twelve haiku, with the final two pages given to Blue Giraffe Press 2nd Australian Haiku Competition's three winners and three commended haiku.

Continue reading "Review of “Prospect Five” – Dorothy McLaughlin " »

Posted by Rodney Williams at 06:16 PM | Permalink

Kokako is New Zealand’s only journal dedicated to haiku and other related forms – it is published twice a year.

Submissions will open for its April edition 2016 on November 1, 2015: deadline – February 1, 2016.

Contributors are welcome to offer haiku, senryu, tanka, renga, haibun and reviews – preferably by email – with only one submission per contributor per issue, comprising no more than 8 poems/ pieces.

Submissions should be inserted into the body of an email (not added as an attachment) and sent to editors Patricia Prime and Margaret Beverland at:

[email protected]

Continue reading "Kokako submissions open November 1, 2015 – deadline February 1, 2016" »

Posted by Rodney Williams at 11:04 PM | Permalink

Australian haiku poets have been strongly represented in the first digital anthology from “Wild Plum Haiku Journal”, called “Behind the Tree Line”.

Featuring 11 haiku written by 8 Australian haiku poets, “Behind the tree line” is a selection of 45 haiku chosen by Gabriel Sawicki from all poems published by the journal in 2015.

It can be accessed at this link:
https://wildplumhaiku.wordpress.com/2015/08/31/585/

In order of appearance, work by the following Australian haiku poets is featured in “Behind the Tree Line” – Simon Hanson, Quendryth Young and Myron Lysenko (each with two haiku selected); plus Duncan Richardson, Jade Pisani, Mark Miller, Marietta McGregor and Barbara A. Taylor (with Barbara also represented in the haiga section):

Continue reading "Wild Plum On-line Haiku Anthology – Behind the Tree Line" »

Posted by Rodney Williams at 12:38 AM | Permalink

Australian editor Amelia Fielden will collaborate with Japanese poet Noriko Tanaka and Australia/ Japan poet Saeko Ogi, to compile a new bi-lingual anthology of haiku and tanka – on the theme of things one wears – to be published in 2016.

Submissions are welcome from Australians writing poems “to wear”, using Japanese-based short-forms, towards the Australian half of this joint book.

Submissions should be emailed to Amelia Fielden at [email protected]., following these guidelines:

Deadline: 30 November, 2015

Types of submissions acceptable: up to 6 haiku; or up to 6 tanka; or a mixture of the two, with no more than 6 pieces in total (but no sequences, haibun or tanka prose, please).

Theme: haiku and/ or tanka about things that people wear, including garments, footwear and accessories – hats, gloves, belts, jewellery, ribbons, make-up, umbrellas, etc.

Continue reading "Call for submissions: Haiku and Tanka anthology – Poems to Wear" »

Posted by Rodney Williams at 11:09 PM | Permalink

It’s the first day of spring in Melbourne. Blossoms are blooming, peas and broad beans are shooting up and the snails are leaving ample evidence that they’ve come out of hibernation. In North America, the bushfire/wildfire season is waning and the milder days of autumn approaching. The world still turns.

Welcome to the 16th issue of “A Hundred Gourds”, a quarterly journal of haiku, haibun, haiga, tanka and renku poetry is now online for your reading pleasure.

www.ahundredgourds.com

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Posted by Rodney Williams at 09:30 PM | Permalink

Kyle Kurihara – an intern with the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center (JACCC) in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, California – invites haiku poets from Australia and around the world to contribute work towards a project called Haiku for Peace, in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

International haiku poets can post their haiku directly onto the Haiku for Peace project’s Facebook event page, found here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1572559833008065/

Non-Facebook users can send their haiku by email to [email protected].

Continue reading "Haiku for Peace – 70th anniversary of Hiroshima & Nagasaki bombings" »

Posted by Rodney Williams at 11:08 PM | Permalink

The following review has been written by Patricia Prime (NZ), editor of “Kokako”:

“Haiku Bindii: Willow Light. Journal of Bindii Japanese Genre Poetry Group 2015: Volume 2” has been edited by Lee Bentley, with layout and design by Lynette Arden.

Payment can be made via Paypal to [email protected] 1. $10AUD; 2. $15AUD; 3 $24 AUD; 4. $30 AUD. 5 or more copies, please contact Lee for details.

“Haiku Bindii: Willow Light” is the Bindii Japanese Genre Poetry Group’s second collection from Australian poets. Haiga inside front and back covers and throughout the book are by Belinda Broughton. The collection is composed of haiku, tanka, tanka prose and haibun.

Continue reading "Review of “Haiku Bindii: Willow Light"" »

Posted by Rodney Williams at 10:20 PM | Permalink

Edited by Beverley George, ‘Windfall’ is published by Peter Macrow’s Blue Giraffe Press.

The annual submission window for ‘Windfall’ is July only.

Send up to six haiku on an Australian theme to [email protected]

Please include your postal address details and a statement that your work is ‘original, unpublished and not under consideration elsewhere’.

Continue reading "Submissions open in July for ‘Windfall’ Issue 4" »

Posted by Rodney Williams at 10:39 AM | Permalink

Yesterday, Lorin Ford – Haiku Editor, Managing Editor for “A Hundred Gourds” – wrote:

Outside my window is the first rainbow of my Melbourne winter, which begins today. Those in the Northern Hemisphere will soon be welcoming summer. Wherever you are in the world, the 15th issue of “A Hundred Gourds”, a quarterly journal of haiku, haibun, haiga, tanka and renku poetry is now online for your reading pleasure:
www.ahundredgourds.com

Continue reading "A Hundred Gourds 4:3 released " »

Posted by Rodney Williams at 06:55 PM | Permalink

Thanks to Lorin Ford for passing on the following message from Norman Darlington about the recent publication of John Carley’s "Renku Reckoner", through Darlington Richards Press: as Lorin herself has noted, “This is the book many of us have been waiting for!”

Norman Darlington writes:

Darlington Richard Press are pleased to announce that John Carley's eagerly-awaited "Renku Reckoner" is now available at http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/darlingtonrichards.

Carley's 186-page "haikai manifesto" includes descriptions, seasonal schemas, appraisals and examples of twelve traditional and modern renku forms, from the 36-verse kasen to the 4-verse yotsumono, and 19 chapters on renku theory and practice, including a series of carefully constructed exercises. This authoritative work will be a welcome addition to the library of any poet or reader, beginner or advanced, with a serious interest in collaborative poetry in English.

Continue reading "Publication of John Carley's "Renku Reckoner"" »

Posted by Rodney Williams at 02:30 PM | Permalink

Beverley George, former President of the Australian Haiku Society, offers her essay - entitled “Haiku and the Seasons”, also translated into Serbian by Sasa Vazic - for readers of “HaikuOz”.

Beverley’s piece was first published in the New South Wales Poets Union journal “Five Bells” 15 (1) in 2007-2008.

With both language versions posted in “Haiku Reality” vol. 11 no. 19 Winter 2014, Beverley George’s essay about seasonal elements in haiku can be accessed at the following pair of links:
http://haikureality.theartofhaiku.com/esejeng127.htm
http://haikureality.theartofhaiku.com/eseji156.htm

Posted by Rodney Williams at 05:05 PM | Permalink

Patricia Prime (editor, "Kokako", New Zealand) wishes to advise Australian haiku poets who are contributors to the haiku anthology “A Vast Sky” that copies of this collection are now available.

Below, contributing poets will find the text of a message sent by Bruce Ross (from the United States), giving details about how to go about obtaining a copy of “A Vast Sky”.

Please note, however, that the first print-run for "A Vast Sky" has already sold out, such that the anthology will be reprinted in mid-May.

Continue reading "Copies of haiku anthology “A Vast Sky” available" »

Posted by Rodney Williams at 10:28 PM | Permalink

Further congratulations go to leading Australian haiku poet, Ron C. Moss.

Having recently won the Heron’s Nest Readers’ Choice Award for 2014, Ron has just become one of three recipients of a Touchstone Distinguished Book Award for 2014, for “The Bone Carver” (published by Snapshot Press) – his new haiku collection that features a wide range of prize-winning poems.

Ron C. Moss also had a haiku shortlisted in the Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems.

Details regarding this set of awards can be viewed at this link: http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/touchstone-awards-for-2014

Another Australian haiku poet - Jan Dobb - likewise received recognition in this same set of awards.

Continue reading "Touchstone Distinguished Book Award to Ron C. Moss" »

Posted by Rodney Williams at 09:50 PM | Permalink

Submissions are invited towards the fifth edition of "Prospect" poetry journal, an issue that will focus specifically upon haiku and tanka by Australian poets with an emphasis on Australian themes.

To be produced by Peter Macrow’s Blue Giraffe Press, this special edition will see Beverley George act as guest editor.

Submissions can be emailed to [email protected] during the submission period, between 1 April – 31 May 2015.

Contributors may offer up to 10 haiku and/or 6 tanka.

Continue reading "Submissions open for “Prospect” Poetry Journal" »

Posted by Rodney Williams at 02:08 PM | Permalink

The first edition of “The Urban Halcyon” – an Indian journal focussing on haiga and shahai – can be viewed through the following link:

http://theurbanhalcyon.wordpress.com/

This online journal aims to present haiga or shahai of a contemporary nature which reflect on a range of themes, including changes in culture, climate, flora, fauna and human nature.

Continue reading "The Urban Halcyon: A Contemporary Haiga/Shahai Journal" »

Posted by Rodney Williams at 03:33 PM | Permalink

The launch by Robyn Mathison of "Windfall" issue 3 took place at the Allport Library and Museum in Hobart, with the prior launch of a haiku book by Ron C Moss facilitating the use of this excellent location, and an interested and informed audience of about sixty people already in place.

Peter Macrow, founder and manager of "Windfall", was present, as was I as editor. "Windfall" poets in attendance included Marilyn Humbert, visiting Tasmania from Sydney, Lyn Reeves, Robyn Mathison, Ron C Moss, Sarah Clarkson, Judith E P Johnson, and Lorraine Haig.

The launch was expertly conducted by respected Tasmanian poet, Robyn Mathison.

Robyn expressed her appreciation to Peter Macrow and his Blue Giraffe Press for “offering poets the chance to be published in this tiny but stylish collection of haiku,” and congratulated the fifty-three poets for moments shared in the sixty-three haiku included in "Windfall 3".

Continue reading ""Windfall 3’\ Launch in Hobart, February 20th 2015" »

Posted by Rodney Williams at 09:26 PM | Permalink

A special call for submissions is being made by the online journal “KYSO Flash”.

Genres sought: haibun and tanka prose.

Reading period: open now, through till April 15.

Maximum word count: strictly 1,000 words, including text and title.

Full details and submission guidelines may be found at this link:

http://www.kysoflash.com/Classifieds.aspx#Special

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Posted by Rodney Williams at 03:06 PM | Permalink

On Friday, February 20th, Hobartians welcomed the long-awaited arrival of Ron C. Moss’s prize-winning haiku collection, "The Bone Carver" (Snapshot Press, 2014), at the Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts.

In her launch speech, Beverley George – past president of the Australian Haiku Society – began by giving an overview of the nature of haiku and of its current practice, citing John Bird’s description of the form:

“A haiku is a brief poem, built on sensory images from the environment. It invokes an insight into our world and its peoples.”

Continue reading "Launch of "The Bone Carver" by Ron C. Moss " »

Posted by Rodney Williams at 08:08 PM | Permalink

The seasons roll around. Today, the first of March, Australia and New Zealand welcome our first day of Autumn, whilst those of you in the Northern Hemisphere are anticipating Spring’s arrival.

Wherever you are in the world, the 14th issue of A Hundred Gourds, a quarterly journal of haiku, haibun, haiga, tanka and renku poetry is now online for your reading pleasure.

www.ahundredgourds.com

Continue reading "A Hundred Gourds 4:2 released " »

Posted by Rodney Williams at 12:04 PM | Permalink

Leading Australian haiku poet Ron C. Moss has won the prestigious Heron’s Nest Readers’ Choice Award for 2014 for the following haiku (included in the December issue):

old horses
endless days of rain
in their eyes

This haiku received 25 nominations, totalling 188 points.

Further details can be viewed at this link:
http://www.the heronsnest.com/awards/awards-2014.html

Continue reading "Ron C. Moss wins Heron’s Nest Readers’ Choice Award 2014" »

Posted by Rodney Williams at 07:40 PM | Permalink

Ron C. Moss’ collection of prize-winning haiku The Bone Carver will be launched by Beverley George (former President of the Australian Haiku Society) on Friday, February 20.

To commence at 5.30 p.m., the launch will take place at Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts (Ground Floor, 91 Murray Street, Hobart).

RSVP to Ron C. Moss, [email protected]

Signed copies of The Bone Carver are available by mail by contacting this address.

Continue reading "Launching Ron C. Moss’ The Bone Carver & Windfall 3" »

Posted by Rodney Williams at 10:07 AM | Permalink

The new issue of Shamrock (No. 30) is now available online at:

http://shamrockhaiku.webs.com/currentissue.htm

It has a big selection of English-language haiku from all over the world, plus translated haiku (from Belorussian), as well as two haibun.

Continue reading "Issue # 30 of Shamrock now online" »

Posted by Rodney Williams at 10:04 PM | Permalink

Kokako is New Zealand’s only journal dedicated to haiku and other related forms – it is published twice a year.

Submissions are still open for its April edition: deadline – February 1.

Contributors are welcome to offer haiku, senryu, tanka, renga, haibun and reviews – preferably by email – with only one submission per contributor per issue, comprising no more than 8 poems/ pieces.

Submissions should be inserted into the body of an email (not added as an attachment) and sent to editors Patricia Prime and Margaret Beverland at:

[email protected]

Continue reading "Kokako submissions deadline February 1" »

Posted by Rodney Williams at 06:12 PM | Permalink

The editors of “tinywords” advise that the reading period – spanning from December 11th, 2014 until January 15, 2015 – has commenced for their next edition.

They expect to present “tinywords 15.1” in February 2015.

Continue reading "Submissions welcome for next issue of “tinywords” " »

Posted by Rodney Williams at 05:17 PM | Permalink

With issue 4.1, A Hundred Gourds begins its fourth year of publishing haiku, tanka, renku, haiga and haibun along with essays, book reviews and features of interest. The 13th issue of A Hundred Gourds, a quarterly journal of haiku, haibun, haiga, tanka and renku poetry is now online.

www.ahundredgourds.com

Continue reading "A Hundred Gourds 4:1 released " »

Posted by Cynthia Rowe at 09:09 AM | Permalink

The first muttering thunder annual has just been published, and it includes work by Australian poets Lorin Ford, Beverley George, Ron C. Moss, Greg Piko and Quendryth Young.

It's a collection of nature-oriented haiku and art available for free online viewing and download. This first annual, dedicated to the memory of Martin Lucas, collects approximately 100 previously unpublished haiku by almost 60 premier English-language haiku poets from around the world. It also features a reprint of Robert Spiess's cogent essay "Specific Objects in Haiku" and a wide-ranging interview with haiku and lyric poet Wally Swist.

Continue reading "muttering thunder annual " »

Posted by Cynthia Rowe at 02:38 PM | Permalink

The haiku featured in Chen-ou Liu’s 2014 ‘Butterfly Dream’ series have now been collected and published as a free-to-read e-book, accessible from his 'NeverEnding Story: First English-Chinese Bilingual Haiku and Tanka' blog, through this link:

http://neverendingstoryhaikutanka.blogspot.ca/2014/10/hot-news-butterfly-dream-volume-one-2014.html

Australians Lorin Ford, Beverley George, Keitha Keyes and Marilyn Humbert are among those whose haiku have been translated and feature in this collection.

Continue reading "Butterfly Dream: 66 Selected English-Chinese Bilingual Haiku" »

Posted by Rodney Williams at 07:28 PM | Permalink

The new issue of Shamrock (No 29) is now available online at
http://shamrockhaiku.webs.com/currentissue.htm
on the re-designed website.

Continue reading "Shamrock (No 29) online" »

Posted by Cynthia Rowe at 02:42 PM | Permalink

Submissions are now open for paper wasp’s next issue for all things Australian. This last special issue for 2014 (December/Summer) is especially for haiku with an Australian flavour/theme – for which overseas contributions are very welcome. The deadline for the Australian haiku edition is November 1.

Continue reading "paper wasp submissions" »

Posted by Cynthia Rowe at 02:30 PM | Permalink

The 12th issue of A Hundred Gourds, a quarterly journal of haiku, haibun, haiga, tanka and renku poetry is now online for your reading pleasure.

www.ahundredgourds.com

Continue reading " A Hundred Gourds 3:4 released " »

Posted by Cynthia Rowe at 10:55 AM | Permalink

Lorin Ford has made her book of haiku, 'a wattle seedpod' (PostPressed, 2008) available to all as a free pdf download from the The Haiku Foundation Digital Library. As well as 109 haiku, 'a wattle seedpod' has a cover by Ron Moss and a foreword by John Bird, founder of HaikuOz.

www.thehaikufoundation.org/omeka/items/show/175

'a wattle seedpod' won first prize in the 2009 HSA Mildred Kanterman Merit Book Awards, the first book by an Australian author to be awarded that honour.

Posted by Cynthia Rowe at 01:22 PM | Permalink

Over the summer holidays I read two informative, inspirational and professional books on haiku that featured the work of a wide range of influential poets from Britain, America, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.

Haiku in English - The First Hundred Years, edited by Jim Kacian, Philip Rowland, and Allan Burns with an Introduction by Billy Collins. First edition printed in the USA, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10110 and Where the River Goes - The Nature Tradition in English-Language Haiku
edited by Allan Burns. First edition published by Snapshot Press, Orchard House, High Lane, Ormskirk L40 7sl in great Britain in 2013.

Continue reading "Review of two recent books on Haiku" »

Posted by Greg Piko at 05:41 PM | Permalink

Windfall: Australian Haiku is a small annual print publication which seeks to publish fine examples of contemporary Australian haiku. Submissions are welcome in July each year.

Editor: Beverley George.
Founder and Manager: Peter Macrow.
Published by Blue Giraffe Press. ISSN 1839-5449. Hobart, Blue Giraffe Press issue 1, 2012-
Designed and printed for Blue Giraffe Press by Picaro Press.

Continue reading "Windfall: Australian Haiku (submissions during July 2014)" »

Posted by Greg Piko at 02:54 PM | Permalink

The eleventh issue of A Hundred Gourds, a quarterly journal of haiku, haibun, haiga, tanka and renku poetry is now online for your reading pleasure.

http://www.ahundredgourds.com/

Continue reading "A Hundred Gourds 3:3 released" »

Posted by Greg Piko at 11:07 AM | Permalink

The Canterbury Writers Group in Melbourne is calling for submissions for their 21st anthology. The collection will include short stories, essays and poetry. Haiku poetry in particular will be considered favourably. Submissions are due by 30 June, with the book launch planned for November 2014. Acceptance will be notified individually in September via email.

Hard copy submissions can be posted to Canterbury Neighbourhood Centre, or submissions can be sent by email PDF to Rumi Komonz at: [email protected]

Further information is available at:

http://www.canterburynh.org.au/special-interests/canterbury-writers-group/
http://iflit.wordpress.com/2012-participants/rumi-komonz/

Posted by Greg Piko at 11:24 AM | Permalink

A new haiga collaboration involving Beverley George, Mariko Kitakubo and Ron C. Moss can be viewed at:

http://www.haigaonline.com/issue15-1/contents.html

The previously published or awarded haiku of Australian Central Coast poet and former president of the Australian Haiku Society, Beverley George, are translated into the delicate calligraphy of Tokyo tanka poet and performer, Mariko Kitakubo, and further enhanced by the skilled and sensitive sumi-e of Tasmanian poet and artist, Ron C. Moss.

Posted by Greg Piko at 05:55 PM | Permalink

Chen-ou Liu from Toronto, Canada, has established NeverEnding Story - the first English-Chinese Bilingual Haiku and Tanka blog.

http://neverendingstoryhaikutanka.blogspot.com.au/

Apart from providing a daily blog on haiku and tanka, the site presents an anthology of haiku submitted in 2013 (Butterfly Dream), and another anthology of tanka (One Man's Maple Moon), both of which include poems by Australian writers.

The NeverEnding Story web site provides details of how to submit haiku and tanka for inclusion in the 2014 anthologies.

Posted by Greg Piko at 08:42 PM | Permalink

The Hailstone Haiku Circle in Japan has launched its latest haiku anthology:

MELTDOWN — an anthology of haiku, Z to A — edited by Stephen Henry Gill, HAILSTONE HAIKU CIRCLE Kansai, Winter 2013 ISBN: 978-4-9900822-5-3

You can read a review of the anthology by Beverley George below.

Continue reading "MELTDOWN haiku anthology" »

Posted by Greg Piko at 09:59 PM | Permalink

In 2014 paper wasp is celebrating its 20th birthday, making it the longest running Australian journal dedicated to haiku and its related forms still in print. The journal was founded in 1994 by Jacqui Murray, John Knight and Ross Clark. The team was later strengthened by the legendary Janice M Bostok and, a short time later, by Katherine Samuelowicz.

paper wasp will mark this very special year with four unique issues. Two will take both paper wasp and haiku in new directions. For that reason, acceptance of broad-spectrum submissions is temporarily suspended.

Continue reading "paper wasp 20th anniversary" »

Posted by Cynthia Rowe at 09:57 AM | Permalink

Announcing the publication of Where the River Goes: The Nature Tradition in English-Language Haiku.

Continue reading "New anthology from Snapshot Press" »

Posted by Cynthia Rowe at 02:40 PM | Permalink

Haiku Sansaar is a new online bilingual English - Hindi journal, presenting haiku and its related genres. We present the work of both international and Indian poets who are well-known among their own language groups but unknown outside it.

Submissions are welcome till 30th November. Haiku may be submitted in English. We will translate them into Hindi and present them in both languages.

Continue reading "Haiku Sansaar: new online haiku journal" »

Posted by Greg Piko at 03:08 PM | Permalink

Pulse: voices from the heart of medicine is a website providing stories and poetry recounting personal accounts of illness and healing. Neal Whitman, haiku editor for the website, is inviting haiku submissions. A new haiku will be published on the Pulse home page every other week. Each haiku will remain there for one week before taking up residence in the Haiku Collection back pages archive. Anyone who signs up (at no cost) to the Pulse website can submit haiku. Details are available at:

http://www.pulsevoices.org/

Posted by Greg Piko at 11:36 AM | Permalink

A new anthology of Haiku-in-English, edited by Jim Kacian and published by WW Norton & Co, contains a good selection of haiku by Australian and New Zealand haiku poets. Some of those represented are Janice M. Bostok, Greg Piko, Lorin Ford, Ron Moss, Graham Nunn, Sandra Simpson, Ernest J. Berry, Patricia Prime and the late Cyril Childs.

http://www.amazon.com/Haiku-English-First-Hundred-Years/dp/0393239470

Posted by Cynthia Rowe at 08:22 PM | Permalink

Forthcoming in print from Darlington Richards Press:

Renku Reckoner by John Carley

•Descriptions, seasonal schemas, appraisals and examples of twelve traditional and modern renku forms, from the 36-verse kasen to the 4-verse yotsumono.

•19 chapters on renku theory and practice, including a series of carefully constructed exercises.

Continue reading "Renku Reckoner by John Carley" »

Posted by Cynthia Rowe at 04:04 PM | Permalink

To celebrate the life of the late John Knight, Paper Wasp will publish a joint anthology of haiku by New Zealand and Australian poets.

Please note that submissions for the anthology are invited by 20 October 2013 from haiku poets resident in New Zealand and/or Australia. New Zealanders and Australians living overseas are also invited to participate.

John was well known in haiku circles in both countries and, through Post Pressed, provided many poets with a publication outlet for which he is gratefully, and fondly, remembered. After consultations on both sides of ‘The Ditch’, it was agreed that a milestone Trans Tasman anthology should serve as the memorial publication to honour John’s memory. The anthology’s size will depend on submissions and pages but Paper Wasp will ensure that it is an attractive and affordable publication in keeping with John’s enduring legacy.

Continue reading "Milestone New Zealand-Australia haiku anthology" »

Posted by Greg Piko at 09:17 AM | Permalink

Below is a review by Cynthia Rowe of Jeffrey Woodward's new collection of haiku and haibun.

Continue reading "Evening in the Plaza by Jeffrey Woodward: A Review" »

Posted by Greg Piko at 09:59 AM | Permalink

John Carley has published his 'The Book of Renku', in pdf form and free of charge “to anyone interested in poetry” on his Renku Reckoner website, where you will find this message:

"Welcome to the temporary Renku Reckoner web site.

Continue reading "John E. Carley's The Book of Renku" »

Posted by Cynthia Rowe at 07:00 PM | Permalink

WA Poets Inc is now accepting haiku from non-members for the next Creatrix online journal.

Submissions close 10th August. For guidelines, go to:

http://creatrix.wapoets.net.au/haiku-submission-guidelines/

Posted by Greg Piko at 09:24 PM | Permalink

Under the Basho will be published twice a year and welcomes haiku of five different styles: Traditional Haiku; Stand-Alone Hokku; Modern Haiku, One-Line Haiku, and, Concrete Haiku (Architectural).

Submission deadlines are August 15th for the September Issue and February 15th for our March Issue.

All submission information and details are posted on our website/journal: http://www.underthebasho.com . If there are any questions, please click the "Contact Us" button for direct email to us. Please let me know if you need anything else.

Don Baird

Posted by Greg Piko at 08:58 PM | Permalink

Submissions are welcome during July 2013 for the second issue of Windfall: Australian Haiku. Windfall seeks to publish fine haiku that capture the experience of urban and rural life in Australia. Guidelines for submission and subscription details are available at:

/2012/02/windfall_australian_haiku.html#more

Posted by Greg Piko at 02:06 PM | Permalink

Hanne Hansen, Chairman of the Haiku Group of the Danish Authors’ Society, recently provided the Australian Haiku Society with a copy of Danish Haiku Today 2012. Below is a short review of the anthology, written by Greg Piko.

Continue reading "Danish Haiku Today 2012: A Review" »

Posted by Greg Piko at 02:53 PM | Permalink

A review by Cynthia Rowe of Rodney Williams’ A bird-loving man: haiku and tanka is now available on the New Zealand Haiku site hosted by NZPS

http://www.poetrysociety.org.nz/birdlovingman

Posted by Greg Piko at 08:17 PM | Permalink

Rodney Williams has just published a selection of his work in Japanese short forms, entitled A bird-loving man: haiku and tanka. Interspersed throughout the text are linocut illustrations by Gippsland artist Helen Timbury, who also designed the front cover. Available through the Ginninderra Press website, the book is priced at $22 RRP (plus postage and handling).

Continue reading "Member publication - A bird-loving man: haiku and tanka. " »

Posted by Cynthia Rowe at 01:47 PM | Permalink

Press Here is pleased to announce that With Cherries on Top: 31 Flavors from NaHaiWriMo is now available for free download. This anthology, edited by Michael Dylan Welch, features 190 haiku and senryu by 79 worldwide contributors to the National Haiku Writing Month (NaHaiWriMo) page on Facebook.

Continue reading "With Cherries on Top: Free Online Haiku Book" »

Posted by Greg Piko at 05:03 PM | Permalink

EVENING BREEZE – the anthology of the inaugural Janice M Bostok haiku award

A review

It struck the entire Australian haiku community as a fitting mark of respect when paper wasp announced its new prize – the Janice M Bostok haiku award – as a replacement for the Jack Stamm Haiku Award, for years our pre-eminent haiku competition. If she were able to read Evening Breeze – the anthology of finalists for the inaugural contest bearing her name – surely Janice herself could only be delighted.

Continue reading "EVENING BREEZE – review " »

Posted by Cynthia Rowe at 03:49 PM | Permalink

Dr Bruce Ross has asked me to assist in editing a forthcoming World Haiku Anthology that he is producing. I am therefore seeking three of your best haiku for the anthology. Your contributions may be unpublished, or may have been published at any time between 2000 and the present.

Please send your contributions to Patricia Prime by the end of July 2013:

[email protected]

and include your name, email and publication details.

Posted by Greg Piko at 08:23 PM | Permalink

“Windfall: Australian Haiku” is a small annual print publication which seeks to publish fine examples of contemporary Australian haiku. Submissions are welcome in July each year.

Editor: Beverley George.
Founder and Manager: Peter Macrow
Published by Blue Giraffe Press. ISSN 1839-5449. Hobart, Blue Giraffe Press issue 1, 2012 –
Designed and printed for Blue Giraffe Press by Picaro Press.

Continue reading "Windfall: Australian Haiku" »

Posted by Greg Piko at 08:51 PM | Permalink

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

Posted by Greg Piko at 04:07 PM | Permalink

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

Continue reading "Haiku Bindii Vol 1, Journeys – How to purchase" »

Posted by Greg Piko at 08:51 PM | Permalink

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" »

Posted by Greg Piko at 08:48 PM | Permalink

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.

Continue reading "Jutei and Basho by Esther Theiler" »

Posted by Greg Piko at 09:22 PM | Permalink

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.

Continue reading "A Hundred Gourds: update" »

Posted by Greg Piko at 06:41 PM | Permalink

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/

Posted by Greg Piko at 05:44 PM | Permalink

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 [email protected]

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

Posted by Greg Piko at 05:04 PM | Permalink

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:

[email protected]
AND
[email protected]

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.

http://sites.google.com/site/worldhaikureview2/

Posted by Greg Piko at 11:03 AM | Permalink

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

Continue reading "Third Australian Haiku Anthology" »

Posted by Greg Piko at 03:03 PM | Permalink

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:

http://www.amazon.com/Heart-Haiku-Kindle-Single-ebook/dp/B0057IYMF4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m;=A24IB90LPZJ0BS&s;=books&qid;=1309080107&sr;=8-1

Beverley George

Posted by Greg Piko at 07:28 PM | Permalink

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'

Posted by Greg Piko at 08:33 PM | Permalink

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

Posted by Greg Piko at 08:33 PM | Permalink

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:

[email protected]

or from the publisher, John Knight, at:

[email protected].

Price $18.00 including postage within Australia.

Posted by Greg Piko at 07:38 PM | Permalink

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'

Posted by Greg Piko at 09:21 PM | Permalink

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

Posted by Dawn Bruce at 06:15 PM | Permalink

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

Posted by Dawn Bruce at 05:31 PM | Permalink

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.

Posted by Greg Piko at 07:18 PM | Permalink

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: [email protected].

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

Posted by Greg Piko at 07:46 PM | Permalink

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

Posted by Greg Piko at 04:19 PM | Permalink

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 [email protected] 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 [email protected] 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.

Posted by Greg Piko at 08:51 PM | Permalink

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

Posted by Greg Piko at 01:12 PM | Permalink

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: [email protected]

Tanka to Amelia Fielden: [email protected]

Haibun to Kala Ramesh: [email protected]

Haiga to Silvija Butkovic: [email protected]

Renga, Book reviews, interviews, feature articles to Robert D. Wilson and Sasa Vazic:

[email protected] and [email protected]

Robert D. Wilson & Sasa Vazic
Co-Owners, Co-Publishers, Co-Editors in Chief

Posted by Beverley George at 06:57 PM | Permalink

The autumn quarterly issue of *Haibun Today* is
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" »

Posted by Graham Nunn at 06:41 PM | Permalink

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’

Posted by Beverley George at 11:14 AM | Permalink

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 [email protected] by end of September.

Posted by Beverley George at 11:59 AM | Permalink

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" »

Posted by Graham Nunn at 06:51 PM | Permalink

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 [email protected]

Posted by Graham Nunn at 05:44 PM | Permalink

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

Posted by Graham Nunn at 05:53 PM | Permalink

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 [email protected] before 30 September, 2010.

Posted by Graham Nunn at 06:00 PM | Permalink

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/)

Continue reading "HAIKU NEWS" »

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.

Posted by Graham Nunn at 05:04 PM | Permalink

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

Continue reading "THE NEW ISSUE OF HAIKU REALITY IS OUT" »

Posted by Graham Nunn at 05:01 PM | Permalink

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" »

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

Posted by Beverley George at 03:34 AM | Permalink

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.

Continue reading "Members’ Publications: Lorin Ford" »

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 [email protected] $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

Continue reading "Members Publications - Dawn Bruce" »

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: [email protected]

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 ([email protected])

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, [email protected]

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

Posted by at 12:47 PM | Permalink

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

Continue reading "Spinifex: haiku by Beverley George" »

Posted by at 05:37 PM | Permalink

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

Posted by Robyn Smith at 08:32 PM | Permalink

Posted by Robyn Smith at 09:53 PM | Permalink

• 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: [email protected]

• 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 - [email protected] -or- by emailing the author.

Posted by Robyn Smith at 08:55 PM | Permalink