Mari Warabiny Haiku Group
The Mari Warabiny Haiku Group is a group of haiku enthusiasts living in Western Australia, who give feedback on each others' haiku by email. We all recognise the need to critique our haiku, no matter how experienced or inexperienced we are. We follow guidelines for haiku writing based on the Submission Guidelines for haiku sent to the Creatrix Journal, and the haiku Information provided for Creatrix haiku submissions.
We also share information about haiku and related forms with each other.
We will occasionally go on Ginko (haiku walks) and also meet to read and discuss haiku. You are welcome to attend the walks and/or meetings but it most certainly is not required.
Mari Warabiny are Nyungar words meaning 'Billowing Clouds'.
If you live in Western Australia, and you'd like to join the group, email Maureen: haikumariwarabiny@gmail.com
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Haiku Oz: The Australian Haiku Association - http://www.haikuoz.org
Australian Haiku Dreaming - http://users.mullum.com.au/jbird/dreaming/ozku.html
Walleah Press, Famous Reporter, biannual magazine publishing poetry and with substantial haiku section, haiku submissions to: Lyn Reeves 44 Bayside Drive, Lauderdale, Tasmania 7021, Australia- http://walleahpress.com.au/index.htm
Stylus Poetry Journal an Australian site, based in Brisbane - http://www.styluspoetryjournal.com/main/master.asp?id=75
Paper Wasp Journal, quarterly; haiku and related forms. Enquiries/submissions to: 14 Fig Tree Pocket Road, Chapel Hill, Qld 4069, Australia. Or to - ksamuelowicz@optusnet.com.au - http://members.optusnet.com.au/paperwasp/
Haiku XpresSions publishes haiku from around the world in the magazine FreeXpresSion. Send up to ten unpublished haiku at a time, not on offer elsewhere, to the Haiku Editor, Cynthia Rowe (cynthia.rowe@ozemail.com.au), including your postal address. Any writer whose work is published receives a complimentary copy of FreeXpresSion magazine.
Notes From the Gean: Haiku, Tanka and Haiga Journal - http://www.geantree.com/
Pardalote Press -http://www.pardalote.com.au/
Great article about haiku: http://raysweb.net/haiku/pages/haiku-definition.html
A great article about techniques on writing haiku, by Jane Reichold - http://www.ahapoetry.com/haiartjr.htm
Haiku and photography website: http://raysweb.net/haiku/
The Heron's Nest, USA - http://www.theheronsnest.com/
A training exercise to writing haiku: http://shachihoko.homestead.com/1exercise.html
Shamrock Haiku Journal: http://shamrockhaiku.webs.com/
Aha Poetry website - http://www.ahapoetry.com/index.html
How to write haiku/Wisteria Press: http://www.wisteriapress.com/haikureport.pdf
In the Moonlight a Worm … http://www.haiku.insouthsea.co.uk/index.htm
Haiku Society of America: http://www.hsa-haiku.org/
Millikin University Haiku the Website: http://www.millikin.edu/haiku/
Haiku World - http://www.haikuworld.org/
World Haiku Association - http://www.worldhaiku.net/index.html
HIA International Haiku Association - http://www.haiku-hia.com/index_en.html
Writer’s Digest/Poetic Asides: http://blog.writersdigest.com/poeticasides/
Haiku site - http://www.asiaeducation.edu.au/default.asp?id=site_search&query=haiku
Haiku Talk: A general discussion list for writers and others interested in haiku and related genres. A forum for news and views. - http://geraldengland.co.uk/hk/
Haiku 2000: A series of webpages supporting and expanding on the material in The Art of Haiku 2000: a guide to haiku, senryu, tanka, haibun, sedoka, sijo and other related genres, published by New Hope International. - http://www.geraldengland.co.uk/nhi/hk2000.htm
Wonder Haiku Worlds - a community portal for haiku and related forms:
http://www.wonderhaikuworlds.com/
World Haiku Review: http://athenaeum-contents.blogspot.com/
Modern Haiku Magazine: http://www.modernhaiku.org/
Simply Haiku: http://simplyhaiku.com/
Roadrunner Haiku Journal: http://www.roadrunnerjournal.net/pages_all/aboutroadrunner.htm
Frogpond, the journal of the Haiku Society of America: http://www.hsa-haiku.org/frogpond/index.htmlRooku - www.movinggalleries.org/rooku/
chaba: an electronic haiku journal - http://www.users.interport.net/~jhudak/
Tiny Words publishes one haiku per day: http://tinywords.com/about/
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BOOKS RECOMMENDED BY MARI WARABINY HAIKU GROUP MEMBERS:Writing and Enjoying Haiku, A Hands-on Guide, Jane Reichold
A Haiku Journey: Basho’s “The Narrow Road to the Far North” and Selected Haiku, Matsuo Basho, Dorothy Britton, Dennis Stock
The Sound of Water: Haiku by Basho, Buson, Issa, and Other Poets, Matsuo Basho, Kaji Aso, Sam Hamill
Basho: The Complete Haiku, Shiro Tsujimura, Matsuo Basho
BOOKS BY ALAN WATTS:
The Way of Zen
The Wisdom of Insecurity
Tao: The Watercourse Way
This is it: and Other Essays on Zen and Spriritual Experience
Does It Matter?
Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown: A Mountain Journal
The Joyous Cosmology
Love of Wisdom
Still the Mind: Ann Introduction to Meditation
The Meaning of Happiness
What is Zen?
What is Tao?
BOOKS FROM PARDALOTE PRESS (Australia)
Spinifex: haiku by Beverley George
Watersmeet: haiku by Watersmeet Haiku Group
Oil Slick Sun: Haiku by Peter Macrow
Measuring the Depth by Graham Nunn
Walking the Tideline by Lyn Reeves
Watching Pilgrims Watching Me by Jodie Hawthorne
Email info@pardalote.com.au, Telephone (+61) 3 6248 8496 , Postal Pardalote Press, 44 Bayside Drive, Lauderdale, Tasmania 7021, Australia
THE BODHI TREE PERTH HAIKU COMPETITION
Entries close 5pm Friday 23 July 2010.
Prizes: 1st Prize – Basho: The Complete Haiku
2nd Prize – Haiku Mind: 108 poems to cultivate awareness & open your heart
3rd Prize – The British Museum Haiku
Open to poets residing in the Perth metro area only.
For guidelines and entry form, go to:
http://www.bodhitree.net.au/Text/1276588625412-0226/pC/1214367693359-7635/uploadedFiles/1276588620694-4588.pdf
Brought to you by The Bodhi Tree in conjunction with WA Poets IncThe judges are local poets, Maureen Sexton and Amanda Joy.
ALONGSIDE SILENCE
Fringe Gallery Poetry and Performance Night
Amanda Joy, Maureen Sexton and Roeli Joosten present a night of Haiku, Haiga, Butoh Dance
Sunday 25th July
7.30 pm - 10 pm
Cost: $5 - Refreshments can be purchased on the night.
There will be an open mike section, so bring work to read (does not have to be haiku or related forms, but can if you wish) and come early to register.
The Fringe Gallery, 94 Bawden St, Willagee (opposite Webber Reserve)
Enquiries: Terry Farrell on 0412 911 562 or email terry.farrell@optusnet.com.au
THE BODHI TREE ‘A HAIKU CELEBRATION’
Hosted by The Bodhi Tree Bookstore and Café as part of A Celebration of Writing.
Celebrate haiku and related forms at the Bodhi Tree Bookstore Café, on Sunday 1st August from 12 noon. You will be rewarded with: Haiku readings/performances, demonstrations of the deep and powerful connections in Haiga, the beauty of the combination of Haiku and silk art, and the hauntingly disciplined movements of Butoh dance. The winners of the Bodhi Tree Haiku Competition will be reading their winning works and there will be an open reading, so bring along yours or your favourite haiku to read.
Presenters:
Haiga – Maureen Sexton, Amanda Joy
Haiku – Amanda Joy, Maureen Sexton, Ross Bolleter, Rose Van Son
Butoh – Roeli Joosten
Haiku and Silk Art – Annie Otness
Hear for yourself the influence of Zen in Haiku, Haiga and Butoh.
“What is the relevance of Zen to Haiku? … Zen and haiku are about finding one’s way to what is known as haiku ‘spirit’. Zen was present at the very moment haiku came into being. Haiku was Zen in inspiration. … What is the relevance of Zen to haiku today, more than 350 years later? In one word is it is discipline. The discipline of self. The discipline to quiet the chatter of our minds. The discipline to see things are they are, as they exist in this Eternal Now.” This is an excerpt of a much longer article by Jacqui Murray, April 2008 that can be found at - http://www.haikuoz.org/Zen%20and%20haiku%20jacqui%20murray.pdfOrganisers: Maureen Sexton (HaikuOz, The Australian Haiku Society, WA Rep, http://www.haikuoz.org/) and Amanda Joy, in conjunction with The Bodhi Tree http://www.bodhitree.net.au and WA Poets Inc http://www.wapoets.net.au.
For more information and a copy of the full program (available soon), go to: http://www.bodhitree.net.au/events-calendar/celebration-of-writing
CITY OF PERTH LIBRARY2010 ‘HAIKU COMPETITION’ AND ‘HAIKU WALL’
ENTRY CONDITIONS
Haiku and Senryu will be accepted.
Entries must be previously unpublished.
Adult entries are limited to 5 per entrant and must all be on one A4 paper.
Student entries are limited to 3 per entrant and must all be on one A4 paper.
The name of the poet must be included at the bottom of the page.
A separate contact sheet must have name and contact details.
The contact sheet must also list the first line of each poem.
Font size to be at least 22pt. Any style is acceptable.
Entries will be judged purely on the text.
Any pictures or decorations must fit on the page with the Haiku.
Entries close Thursday 13 August 5 pm.
Winners listed Mon 31 August
Submit entries: Deliver to the Library, 573 Hay St Perth.
Post to GPO Box C120 Perth 6839 Haiku will not be returned
unless accompanied with a stamped, self - addressed envelope.
Email to library.perth@cityofperth.wa.gov.au. The poems must
be sent as a word document attachment.
We welcome entries from overseas, but regrettably we are not able to allocate prizes or forward gift vouchers to overseas entrants.
Adult: 1st - $75 2nd - $50 3rd - $40
High School age: 1st - $50
Primary School age: 1st - $40
Winners will be listed on the Library’s web page and in the Library.
Entries will be displayed on the Haiku Wall in the Library during WA National Poetry Week from 31 August – 5 September
Entries will be judged by Maureen Sexton - WA Representative for HaikuOz – the Australian Haiku Society.
'one moment please' - A one day haiku workshop with Maureen Sexton
Sunday 15th August 2010
Wild Fig Jam Cottage
Dunsborough
http://www.wildfigjam.com.au/
What is haiku? Why has it become so popular?
Part I of this workshop will run from 10 am – 12 noon and will address the following topics:
a brief history of haiku
haiku purpose
defining haiku
stopping the mind chatter
are syllables important?
fragment and phrase theory
techniques for writing haikuthe stillness –
soaking into stones
cicada’s cry
Matsuo BashoPart II will run from 1 pm to 4 pm and will include the following:
a ginko (haiku walk)
sharing what we’ve discovered
mixing our words
the ‘aha’ moment
why haiku is becoming so popular
Graham Nunn (Brisbane, Qld) defines haiku as: ‘a short poem that captures the true essence of a moment in time.'summer storm
shorter than
my cup of tea
Graham NunnBrought to you by Wild Fig Jam Cottage
Jane Durkin and Liz Stern
http://www.wildfigjam.com.au/
Biddle Road, between Geographe Bay and Yallingup Beach, Dunsborough
$110 Workshop inc. morning/afternoon tea and lunch
For booking and payment details please call Liz on Mob. 0404 241 132 or Ph. 9755 2221, or Email elizabethemmastern@hotmail.com
There is accommodation available if you would like to stay for 1 or 2 nights at special rates that include cost of the workshop and meals, please enquire.
Presented by: Maureen Sexton, HaikuOz (The Australian Haiku Society), WA Representative - http://www.haikuoz.org/