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Category: Poetry Events

Coming Soon: Haiku Down Under 2022

Haiku Down Under 2022 is a three-day Zoom conference being organised to connect poets from Australia, New Zealand and beyond. The event will run from Friday 7 October to Sunday 9 October 2022. The Haiku Down Under website can be found here. The site provides details of the conference programme and background information about the… Read More Coming Soon: Haiku Down Under 2022

September 14, 2022January 3, 2023 gregorypiko

Haiku Down Under: 2022

Several poets from New Zealand and Australia are organising a virtual haiku conference to be called: Haiku Down Under. The conference will be held from 7-9 October 2022. Details for the event can be found here. After the poets met online at Haiku North America in 2021, they decided to organise a similar event for… Read More Haiku Down Under: 2022

May 11, 2022January 3, 2023 gregorypiko

Poetic City 2021: Canberra

The Poetic City Festival ran through March and April 2021 at a multitude of venues in and around Canberra. Together with a band of willing helpers, local poet Jacqui Malins put together an extensive program of poetry readings, workshops, installations and other events. The Festival opened on 15 March with the launch of Issue 8… Read More Poetic City 2021: Canberra

April 28, 2021January 3, 2023 gregorypiko

breaking my journey: out and about

I’ve been out and about showcasing my new book of haiku, breaking my journey. In February, I read at the Manning Clark House Poetry Book Fair while, in March, I read at the Brush With Poetry afternoon in Binalong, New South Wales. Both were very enjoyable events. The Poetry Book Fair was held at Smith’s… Read More breaking my journey: out and about

April 13, 2021January 3, 2023 gregorypiko

Matt Hetherington: Kaleidoscopes

Matt Hetherington’s latest book, Kaleidoscopes, was published by Recent Work Press in 2020. Matt was in Canberra last December to read from the book at Smith’s Alternative. Matt’s poems rarely sit still for very long. The images come thick and fast, constantly changing colour and morphing into new shapes. Perhaps these two lines from Loose… Read More Matt Hetherington: Kaleidoscopes

March 16, 2021January 3, 2023 gregorypiko

Haiku Foundation Per Diem: October 2020

Every day, The Haiku Foundation Home page features a different haiku at its top right hand corner. The poems for the October 2020 Per Diem were selected by Tasmanian poet, Lyn Reeves, and addressed the theme of ‘Sky’. As Lyn said in her introduction to the Sky haiku: “Constantly present and constantly changing, sky accompanies… Read More Haiku Foundation Per Diem: October 2020

November 30, 2020January 3, 2023 gregorypiko

Pandemic: A Community Poem

This year has been a year like no other. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world, with some 40 million people having contracted the virus to date and in excess of 1 million people having died. In April 2020, as the pandemic spread from country to country, Muse-Pie Press sought to create a world-wide community… Read More Pandemic: A Community Poem

October 18, 2020January 3, 2023 gregorypiko

Poetry on the Move: 2020

Each year since 2015, the International Poetry Studies Institute at the University of Canberra has run the five-day poetry festival, Poetry on the Move. Normally, the festival includes workshops, panel discussions, poet interviews, symposium papers and, of course, poetry readings. Sadly, COVID-19 has meant Poetry on the Move cannot go ahead in its usual format… Read More Poetry on the Move: 2020

September 28, 2020January 3, 2023 gregorypiko

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