The Brush With Poetry is back again for 2019. Enjoy a wonderful afternoon of open mic poetry in the picturesque village of Binalong, New South Wales. The date is Sunday 31 March 2019 and the venue is the Café On Queen at 15 Queen St, Binalong. Please arrive at 1:30pm for a 2:00pm start. Brush… Read More Brush With Poetry: 31 March 2019
Each year the Irish Haiku Society conducts an international haiku competition. The 2018 competition was judged by Anatoly Kudryavitsky and the results were announced in December. Anatoly is Chairman of the Irish Haiku Society and editor of the Shamrock Haiku Journal. For the 2018 competition, over 300 haiku were submitted by poets from 14 countries.… Read More 2018 Irish Haiku Competition
Poet and essayist, Chen-ou Liu, runs a bilingual English-Chinese haiku and tanka blog titled NeverEnding Story. You can find his blog here. Born in Taiwan, Chen-ou migrated to Canada and now lives in Toronto. Hence, his interest in translating English-language haiku and tanka into Chinese and sharing them via his blog. Chen-ou certainly keeps his… Read More NeverEnding Story: bilingual English-Chinese Haiku
The Mamba Journal, published by the Africa Haiku Network, is the place to find beautifully presented haiku about Africa. The Mamba is an online journal that features haiku by writers from across Africa, plus some writers from other countries. Founding Editors, Adjei Agyei-Baah from Ghana and Emmanuel Jessie Kalusian from Nigeria, have now produced six… Read More The Mamba: African Haiku Journal
Yass Valley Writers have recently released a new collection of their work, Voices from the Valley: an anthology of stories and verse, Vol. III. Members of the writing group, which has been running for 20 years, are drawn from Yass (New South Wales) and surrounding towns. The current anthology features a wonderful range of… Read More New Anthology from Yass Valley Writers
Blowing Up Balloons: baby poems for parents and Monji Tea new parent teabags are now available in WrappedToYou gift hampers. Australian supplier of hampers and gifts, WrappedToYou, ships world-wide from their office in Newcastle, New South Wales. Beautiful new parent gift hampers can be purchased direct from the WrappedToYou website: wrappedtoyou.com.au. Blowing Up Balloons (BUB),… Read More Baby Poems now in WrappedToYou Gift Hampers
The final Brush With Poetry for 2018 will be held on Sunday 25 November. Brush With Poetry, which provides a wonderful afternoon of open mic poetry, is organised by the Binalong Arts Group. Entry is free, though a small donation is appreciated. As always, Brush With Poetry will kick off at 2:00pm so please arrive around… Read More Brush With Poetry: 25 November 2018
The Canberra Times newspaper continues to support Australian poetry by publishing a new poem each week in its Poetry Corner. The poems appear in Saturday’s Panorama arts and entertainment supplement. If you have access to the print edition of the Canberra Times, I can recommend Panorama for its regular coverage of literary matters. A big thank… Read More Canberra Times: Poetry Corner
Gregory Piko 