Haiku Bindii

  Julia Wakefield, Subha Goonaratne, Radhika DeSilva, and Lynette Arden met on Sunday, June 1, at 3:00 p.m. via Zoom. Apologies were received from Maeve Archibald, Ewan Rourke, Udara Thambapanni, Stella Damarjati and Maureen Sexton, who sent us some haiku to use in the session. The rest of us had all brought some haiku on the two themes of technology and birds, as arranged at the previous meeting. Image by Subha Goonaratne: Lynette Arden, Subha Goonaratne, Julia Wakefield and Radhika DeSilva Subha gave a very professional presentation outlining the principles of the renga, followed by an introduction to the rengay, which was invented by Gary Gay in 1912. We then completed two rengay, with three people taking part in each of them. Subha remained an encouraging observer. We incorporated Maureen’s haiku in the second rengay, as Radhika had to leave early. We all agreed that it was a very enjoyable session, enabling us to be a little freer than we usually are with the haiku form. It wa...

  Report on the Bindii Meeting April 26 2025 Julia Wakefield, Maeve Archibald, Subha Goonaratne, and Lynette Arden met on Saturday April 26 at 3pm, using Zoom. Apologies were received from Maureen Sexton, Ewan Rourke, Stella Damarjati and Maureen Watson. We began with sharing news of members’ successes. Maeve mentioned that Friendly Street Poets are becoming more receptive to publishing haiku in their anthologies, and she has had several poems including haiku published in their 50 th anniversary publication. We then discussed ways we are finding to bring haiku to the attention of the general public. Subha is planning a youth workshop in Sydney, with support from Leanne. Maeve is giving a poetry workshop at Sophia Adelaide https://sophia.org.au in the near future, which will feature a section on haiku. Julia is running a haiku workshop at Norton Summit on June 19, as part of the Adelaide Hills Winter Words Festival. We then workshopped our haiku. Julia mentioned the concepts ...