Next Gadigal Ginko: 2pm Tuesday 16th April, 2024
For more information and to register, visit my Gadigal Ginko page.
Haiku Down Under 2024
The second Haiku Down Under conference will take place online via Zoom from Friday to Sunday, August 16-18, 2024, with the theme of A Sensory Journey. Please visit the website for details of the conference, including the list of presenters.
Writer & Photographer
Newtown, Sydney, Australia - unceded Gadigal land
Over recent months my haiku been published in:
- Modern Haiku 55.1, February 2024
- Echidna Tracks 12, 01 February 2024
- Haiku 30th Anniversary - Meguro International Haiku Circle, January 2024
- Creatrix 63 Haiku, December 2023
- Seashores 11, November 2023
With great sadness, I'd like to acknowledge the untimely recent death of Ghanaian poet Adjei Agyei-Baah, who was living in New Zealand while completing his PhD at the University of Waikato. Adjei was a widely published poet and a co-founder of the Africa Haiku Network and also of the journal The Mamba. Haikupedia entry. 27th January Haiku Down Under Facebook post.
Gadigal Ginko is an opportunity for Sydney-based haiku poets to gather on an occasional basis. The fourth Gadigal Ginko took place on Saturday 3rd February, 2024.
Haiku Down Under 2022 was held via Zoom over the weekend of 7th-9th October, with over 200 registered participants from Australia, New Zealand and further afield. This was the first ever trans-Tasman haiku conference. I'm extremely grateful to the presenters for the work they put into their sessions and to all the participants who helped to make it an enjoyable weekend. I would like to say a very big thank you to my co-organisers, Sue Courtney (New Zealand), Carole Harrison (Australia) and Sherry Grant (New Zealand), as well as Sandra Simpson (New Zealand), who helped to initiate the project. You can read Sandra's summary of Haiku Down Under at her breath haiku collection site.
In May 2022 I joined the committee of the Australian Haiku Society as Secretary, alongside Clem Byard from Melbourne.
In April 2020 a poem of mine was one of six to receive a Touchstone Award for Individual Poems 2019 from The Haiku Foundation. It's the first time one of my haiku has been even shortlisted for an award, so I feel extremely honoured and in very illustrious company. I'm very grateful to the judges, to the editors of Echidna Tracks who published my haiku in 2019, and to whoever (anonymously) nominated my poem.
Foundation member of Inkstone Poetry Forum November 2016.
Frequent guest member of Meguro International Haiku Circle in Tokyo; first visited 2013.
Haiku Links
Organisations
Australian Haiku Society homepage
Haiku NewZ from New Zealand Poetry Society
The Haiku Foundation website
Haiku Society of America website
Haiku Northwest website
Africa Haiku Network website
Other Poets' pages
Haiku Dreaming Australia - compiled by John Bird
Greg Piko: Gregory Piko Poetry blog
Sue Courtney's haiku pages
Sandra Simpson's breath haiku collection blog
Michael Dylan Welch’s poetry blog: Graceguts
Simone Busch’s haiku and photos: Weighing Words
David McMurray: Asahi Haikuist Network
Simone Busch’s haiku and photos: Weighing Words
Journals & other Publications
Echidna Tracks a new Australian haiku journal in 2018
Seashores a new international print journal in 2018
Creatrix Haiku published by WA Poets Inc
Modern Haiku Journal
Drifting Sands - Journal of Haibun and Tanka Prose
The Mamba journal of the Africa Haiku Network
Autumn Moon Haiku Journal
Kingfisher international print journal
A Hundred Gourds (2011-2016)
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Copyright Leanne Mumford - Last updated 20th March 2024. This website was created on unceded Gadigal land.