Canberra poet, Hazel Hall, has teamed with tai chi practitioner and teacher, Angelina Egan, to produce a chapbook titled Step by Step. Their book was published earlier this year by Picaro Poets, an imprint of Ginninderra Press. Step by Step presents the 24 posture tai chi chuan, a popular short form tai chi sequence practised… Read More Hazel Hall and Angelina Egan: Step by Step
Brush With Poetry will offer another great afternoon of open mic poetry on Sunday 30 September 2018. Please take note, though, the event has a new venue. Brush With Poetry will now take place at Café On Queen, located at 15 Queen Street, Binalong, New South Wales. Café On Queen is an old building with… Read More Brush With Poetry: 30 September 2018
Monji Tea has added to their range of gift packs containing haiku by Vanessa Proctor and myself. Monji Tea’s delightful gift packs for New Parents contain 10 pyramid teabags containing your choice of either the highest quality organic English breakfast tea, or peppermint tisane. And on the tag of each teabag is one of the… Read More Baby Poems from Monji Tea
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
