The persistence in continuing to mirror Japanese haiku can be clearly seen when writers stubbornly use cherry blossoms and Buddhist temples in their Australian haiku. The English language is a beautiful language. We should be using it in exciting and modern ways. We write haiku about kookaburras, kangaroos, rotary clothes hoists, holdens, akubras, and the mountains and terrain of our own country. . . .We do not claim to write Japanese haiku
-- Sharon Elyse Dean, White Heron: The Authorised Biography of Australia’s Pioneering Haiku Writer Janice M Bostok
My Dear Readers:
-- Sharon Elyse Dean, White Heron: The Authorised Biography of Australia’s Pioneering Haiku Writer Janice M Bostok
My Dear Readers:
There is an increasing interest that haiku is generating in the academic community. Rob Scott's 2014 Master Thesis, entitled "The History of Australian Haiku and the Emergence of a Local Accent," is a fine example. Now, you can read its full text or an abridged version under the title “Australian Haiku in the Global Context,” which was first published as a feature in A Hundred Gourds, 4:1, December 2014. For more information, please read "Rob Scott’s thesis on Australian Haiku" on the new website of Australian Haiku Society.
Selected Haiku:
three-quarter moon
the gecko moves
from light to shadow
Frogpond, 24:1, 2001
Sue Mill
still no word
the moon
through another window
The Loose Thread, RMA, 2001
Rob Scott
country town
a railway station
without tracks
Big Sky, RMA, 2006
Myron Lysenko
squabbling
a flock of lorikeets
louder than the neighbours
FAHA, 2003
Sue Wilson
country town
a railway station
without tracks
Big Sky, RMA, 2006
Myron Lysenko
squabbling
a flock of lorikeets
louder than the neighbours
FAHA, 2003
Sue Wilson
lengthening shadow --
above her eggs the hen’s heart
beats against my arm
Tug of the Current, 2004
Beverley George
war veteran ...
lobbing grain
at his hens
Carving Darkness, 2011
Cynthia Rowe
the fluttering of moths
against the window
White Heron, 2011
Janice Bostok
tiny coffin
the long winter’s
passing
White Heron, 2011
Janice Bostok
cows in the shallows drink themselves slowly
FAHA, 2003
Gloria B. Yates
heat haze
the miles
of boundary fence
a wattle seedpod, 2008
Lorin Ford
red moon
the calligraphy
of charred trees
a wattle seedpod, 2008
Lorin Ford
Happy Reading
Happy Reading
Chen-ou
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