Haiku Bindii

On Sunday May 23 we assembled for another Zoom meeting. Just four of us attended: Julia Wakefield, Steve Wigg, Stella Damarjati and Lynette Arden.  We were all much more confident this time with the technology and the meeting was quite prolonged! The topic was Haiku sequences and strings, and our theme was Winter. We began by defining the terms: a sequence usually has a theme and takes us on a journey, sometimes through time, sometimes through a landscape, and often it does both at once. A string, on the other hand, can be loosely bound by a theme.

                                     On two consecutive Sunday afternoons, April 19 and 26, we assembled and experimented with holding an online meeting. Attendees on the first occasion were Julia Wakefield, Steve Wigg, Maeve Archibald, Lynette Arden, Dawn Colsey and Margaret Dingle. We decided to have a second meeting as Stella Damarjati couldn’t attend the first one, and we also needed to practise with the technology.

Report of January 25 Bindii meeting. Six of us met at the SA State Library for a two-hour discussion and critique session. Members present were Maeve Archibald, Lynette Arden, Stella Damarjati , Margaret Fensom, Julia Wakefield and Steve Wigg . We had apologies from Marilyn Linn, Jane Harris and Dawn Colsey.  Stella led the session with some definitions and examples of w abi and s abi techniques, quoting Jane Reichhold , and then between us we tried to define the difference if any between the two concepts. Reichhold translates s abi as aged/loneliness, while she equates w abi with poverty. Lynette brought a book titled ‘ Wabi /Sabi’ by Andrew Juniper, which describes the way Buddhist monks cultivated the practice of revering simple natural objects to help them to  come to terms with the lack of exquisite Chinese porcelain in Japanese monasteries, due to their lack of funding. The concept of impermanence became all-important. Lyn drew our attention to the way wab...

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Five of us met at the State Library for a two-hour discussion and critique session. Members present were Julia Wakefield, Maeve Archibald, Dawn Colsey, Steve Wigg and Stella Damarjati . We had a apologies from, Marilyn Linn, Jill Gower, Lynette Arden and Athena Zaknic . Our haiku theme was the one that Echidna Tracks is currently  calling for (deadline in 3 days!), that is, previously unpublished haiku and senryu about recreation, relaxation, holidays, sport, hobbies and pastimes.

Five of us met at the State Library for a two-hour discussion and critique session. Members present were Julia Wakefield, Lynette Arden, Maeve Archibald. We had a apologies from Dawn Colsey, Marilyn Linn, Margaret Fensom, Jill Gower and Athena Zaknic.   We had two new potential members, Steve Wigg and Stella Damarjati.   Steve drew our attention to the work of Richard Gilbert, who wrote ‘The Disjunctive Dragonfly’ http://research.gendaihaiku.com/dragonfly/DisjunctiveDragonfly.htm  and the poetry of Eve Luckring http://www.eveluckring.com/publications2015.html   The theme was senryu, and attendees were asked to bring a definition of the senryu as well as a few examples.   We began by introducing ourselves and then went on to discuss the senryu definitions. Julia circulated a definition derived from the Akita International HST network

Owing to low numbers of attendance at regular meetings, we are consulting with members for a new way forward. The group will no longer be meeting at The Box Factory.