For several years, a group of haiku writers has been meeting at The Oaks Brasserie in Canberra. Set under stands of mature oak, cypress and other trees, the venue is perfect for the discussion of haiku and other Japanese forms of poetry. During 2021, our group decided it was time to publish an anthology of… Read More Haiku @ The Oaks Anthology
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
Our Capital Region haiku group, known as Haiku @ The Oaks, normally meets at the Yarralumla Gallery and Oaks Brasserie in Canberra. On this occasion, however, we met at the National Botanic Gardens. The timing of our meeting coincided with a visit to Canberra by well known haiku and tanka poet, Beverley George. Coffee and haiku… Read More Haiku @ The Oaks: 5 December
Gregory Piko 