Haiku Bindii

At our 2 June meeting Maeve Archibald will give prompts for writing. This promises to be a most stimulating meeting for members. We will start at the usual time of 12.30 at our usual venue, The Box Factory.

Our April meeting at the Box Factory was a workshop of members’ Japanese genre poetry written in response to the challenge set last meeting of writing about animals. Other subject matter was also workshopped.   There was a vigorous discussion of the work presented, mostly haiku, with a sprinkling of tanka/kyoka. We also explored more general principles of writing haiku. We were pleased to welcome Jeremy Ng to his first attendance at the group.

This meeting, to be held in our usual venue of the Box Factory, will focus on  'animal' haiku, tanka, haibun etc. etc. It will be a general workshop of members' work. Work on other subjects will also be workshopped, as usual. More details will be sent by Lee Bentley closer to the time. Enquiries to our email address haikubindii@gmail.com

For the first meeting of Bindii for 2018, Julia Wakefield and Sara Sims prepared a workshop on tanka. Present: Maeve Archibald, Lynette Arden, Margaret Fensom, Sara Abend-Sims, Marilyn Linn, Athena Zaknic, Julia Wakefield and Sue Heinemann. Apologies: Dawn Colsey, Lee Bentley, Belinda Broughton, and Annie Fox. Workshop: Julia distributed written information on the basic principles of writing tanka and went through the points with the group. Some examples of tanka were then read and discussed. Sara then provided several tanka writing stimulants to the members, and we were invited to write and share our results.

First Bindii meeting 2018: The meeting starts at 12.30 and runs until 2.30 pm.   Sara Sims and Julia Wakefield will be running a Tanka workshop, consisting of a brief summary of what they have discovered in their research, followed by some exercises. Bindii members and visitors are invited to respond to weekly prompts by preparing a few of their own tanka, to be reviewed and discussed during the workshop.

For the final meeting of Bindii for 2017, members gathered in the large kitchen area of the Box Factory to workshop their poetry and share some lunch. After a burst of extremely hot weather, followed by rain, the day was a welcome mild, cloudy interlude.

O ur end of year Bindii meeting will be held on Saturday December 2nd from 12:30pm to 2:30pm at the Box Factory. Our final meeting will be held upstairs, in the tea-room (lift available for the mobility challenged or tired!) We will workshop our writing, before sharing some lunch. Please bring some food or drink to share; there is a fridge we can use.