Report on the Bindii Meeting Sunday November 30, 2025
Julia Wakefield, Lynette Arden, Ewan Rourke and Maeve Archibald met on Sunday, September 28, at 4 pm, using Zoom. Apologies were received from Maureen Sexton, Subha Goonaratne, Stella Damarjati and Radhika de Silva. The attendees brought some haiku for review, and Subha sent her haiku in spite of her absence. Maeve reported on the poetry event she had been invited to present at, at the Poetry Lab, where she discussed haiku forms, focusing on Basho and Issa, and compared their work with that of modern English-language haiku poets. Ewan reported on his mentorship with Rob Scott, remarking that it has been extremely valuable so far. He described how Rob encouraged him to do much more self-editing and to move away from a cerebral approach to something more immediate. We all commented that his current haiku are definitely improving in this regard. We looked at all our haiku with the ‘immediate’ approach in mind, and this helped us to understand how to improve them. We also discu...