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
Simon Hanson from the Australian Haiku Society asked if I would like to write the back story to one of my haiku. I was happy to oblige and the AHS recently included the result in one of their postings. I have reproduced my haiku story here . . . In late 2016 I visited the… Read More The Story of a Haiku
Each year the Central Coast Poets of New South Wales (Australia) conduct the Henry Kendall Poetry Award. Kendall (1839-1882) was a nineteenth century Australian author and bush poet who had a difficult personal life but whose books of poetry achieved considerable acclaim. Kendall’s poems invariably described Australian settings and situations. Here is an extract from… Read More Henry Kendall Poetry Award
Robert Epstein from California, USA, has edited a new collection of poetry titled They Gave Us Life: Celebrating Mothers, Fathers & Others in Haiku. While the book presents many haiku celebrating parents, and the bond between parent and child, it also includes a substantial number of haiga and tanka, plus several longer, free verse poems. Hence,… Read More They Gave Us Life edited by Robert Epstein
Vine Leaves Press began publishing the Vine Leaves Literary Journal in 2011. Since its inception, the journal has presented ‘vignettes’ in poetry and prose. Editor of the journal, Jessica Bell, explains that a vignette doesn’t operate within the traditional realms of structure or plot, instead focusing on mood, character or setting to create an atmosphere… Read More Vine Leaves Literary Journal
Each year the City of Kumamoto in Japan conducts an international haiku competition. The contest is named after the celebrated novel, Kusamakura, written by Natsume Soseki (1867-1916). I was honoured recently to receive a Second Prize award in the 22nd ‘Kusamakura’ International Haiku Competition. Being a poet who seeks to interpret a Japanese genre while… Read More ‘Kusamakura’ Haiku Competition
