Dr Robyn Rowland AO will be the featured poet for this month’s Brush With Poetry at the Black Swan Gallery and Café in Binalong, New South Wales. The date to remember is Sunday 29 July 2018. Please arrive around 1:30pm for a 2:00pm start. Coffee, wine and cake will be available during the afternoon. Robyn… Read More Robyn Rowland at Brush With Poetry
Earlier this year, EGW Publishing from California in the USA released the first issue of a new journal: Nourish Poetry. Issue 1 of Nourish Poetry offers more than 80 pages of contemporary poems plus 25 pages of haiku, showcasing an international line-up of poets. The collection is headlined by Juan Felipe Herrera who… Read More Nourish Poetry: Issue 1
In late 2017, the Canberra-based Haiku @ The Oaks writing group was discussing various ways to present haiku in a live situation. Inspired by the ideas from this meeting, I applied a variation of these thoughts to writing a haiku style poem – a form I now like to call the haiku shuffle. Back in 2017,… Read More The Haiku Shuffle
For twenty years, Red Moon Press in the USA has been presenting its New Resonance series of books which introduces emerging haiku writers from around the world. Published every two years, each issue of A New Resonance showcases the work of around 17 writers who are still relatively new haiku voices. With the 10th New Resonance… Read More echoes 2: A New Resonance Reunion
The next Brush With Poetry open mic afternoon will take place at the Black Swan wine bar and gallery in Binalong, New South Wales on Sunday, 27 May 2018. The event is free, though donations are appreciated. Please arrive at 1:30pm for a 2:00pm start. Wine, coffee and cake will be available and, for those… Read More Brush With Poetry: 27 May 2018
Dr Santosh Kumar has edited a new collection titled Haiku: A Concise Anthology (Cyberwit.net, Allahabad, India). The anthology presents five haiku by each of 40 poets from more than 20 countries, including countries not often represented in English-language collections. For example, you will find haiku from Estonia, Cameroon, Israel, Brazil, Nepal, Vietnam and Montenegro. … Read More Out of India, Out of the Ordinary
The first Brush With Poetry for 2018 will be on Sunday 25 March. Always exciting, always different. Brush With Poetry offers an afternoon of open mic entertainment in the relaxed surrounds of Yvette Gilroy’s Black Swan Gallery and Café. You can find the Black Swan in Stephen Street, Binalong, New South Wales. The afternoon is sure… Read More Brush With Poetry 2018
Coolabah is the electronic journal of the Centre for Australian and Transnational Studies at the University of Barcelona. The journal aims to be an international forum for research in Australian studies and to be totally interdisciplinary in its content. The most recent issue, The Coolabah Short Poem Issue (No 23, 2018), is edited by Australian… Read More Small Australian Poems, in Barcelona
