Report on the Bindii Meeting April 26 2025

 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 50th 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 that were emphasised in the introduction to the Haiku down Under readings that took place at a Zoom meeting on the previous Thursday, namely wabi-sabi, yugen, and ma. She suggested we might try applying some of these concepts in our haiku for the next meeting.

We decided to ask each member to prepare four haiku for the next meeting, with a view to sharing them in a rengay. https://www.rengay.com Subha has volunteered to run that part of the meeting. We have two suggested topics: technology and birds. Can all members please look at the Rengay website to get an idea of the basic principles. This link may also be useful: https://haikupedia.org/article-haikupedia/rengay

Our next Zoom meeting is scheduled for this Saturday, May 24, at 3pm, but if this is too soon for people, we could make it Sunday June 1, at the same time. Please let us know which date suits you.

 

Julia Wakefield 

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