Haiku Bindii

Our follow up haibun workshop presented by Maeve Archibald was an opportunity to share the haibun written from the prompts provided at our August workshop. Six members attended and read work on a variety of subjects that had stimulated their imagination. Helpful critique and suggestions followed each reading. As a further follow up, Lee Bentley, liaising with Maeve, will intermittently email some writing stimulus ideas to members. It is hoped that this will provide some continuity between our bimonthly meetings. Members are requested to think about the kind of program they would like in 2018 so this can be discussed further at the next meeting. Lee will provide a separate report on the Bindii sponsored Langhorne Creek Haiku Competition for schools. Lee has just finished judging the entries for this year’s competition. The report will be posted as a separate item.

The October meeting, led by Maeve Archibald, will concentrate on haibun, and will be the second instalment of her two haibun workshops. Maeve distributed a writing exercise to members and the resultant haibun will be workshopped at the October meeting. The meeting starts at 12.30 and finishes at 2.30 pm on Saturday 7 October. Maeve's suggestions for composing a haibun are included in the minutes of our August meeting at this location:   https://haiku-bindii.blogspot.com.au/2017/08/report-on-bindii-japanese-genre-poetry.html#more Enquiries about the meeting or the group:   haikubindii@gmail.com