The first Haiku Down Under conference was held via Zoom in October 2022. You can find details of the conference including background on the New Zealand and Australian conference organisers here. Haiku Down Under was a great success. Registrations, which exceeded 200, included poets from Australia, New Zealand and around the world. To commemorate the… Read More Haiku Down Under Anthology: 2022
The widely-read New Zealand journal, Kokako, publishes haiku, tanka, haibun and related forms. As usual, the most recent issue (#32) includes writing from New Zealand and around the world. This issue of Kokako includes a poem of mine titled, Night Sky, which is written in the form of a haiku shuffle. In an earlier post,… Read More Kokako #32: Night Sky
Sandra Simpson and Margaret Beverland have edited Number Eight Wire: The Fourth New Zealand Haiku Anthology which was released earlier this year by Piwakawaka Press. Number Eight Wire presents poems by 70 New Zealand poets from the period 2008 to 2018. The third New Zealand anthology, The Taste of Nashi (2008), was a much-loved collection showcasing… Read More Number Eight Wire: New Zealand Haiku
Each year, the New Zealand Poetry Society runs an international poetry competition with sections for haiku and for longer poems. This year I had the pleasure of judging the haiku section of the competition. More than 500 haiku were submitted for consideration. As many of the entries were from New Zealand writers, it was common… Read More 2019 New Zealand Haiku Contest
Gregory Piko 