Writer

Haiku and Haiga

Since 2012 my haiku, haibun and haiga have been published in a variety of online journals, print journals and other print collections. In April 2020 my haiku wind song received a Touchstone Award from The Haiku Foundation.

I am one of the organisers of Haiku Down Under 2024 - A Sensory Journey,  to be held 16th-18th August 2024 via Zoom. The confirmed presenters have been announced and the programme will be released in April. Registrations will open on 1st June.

I am Secretary of the Australian Haiku Society.

I convene the Gadigal Ginko gatherings.

My essay 'Australian Haiku Featuring Eucalypts' was published in January 2024 in the Meguro International Haiku Circle's Haiku 30th Anniversary collection.

Vanessa Proctor and I were the editors of The Haiku Foundation 'Haiku of the Day' for October 2023, with the theme of inland waters. 

As Haiku North America 2021 and the 2020 Seabeck Haiku Getaway were held online due to COVID-19 I was fortunate to able to join in from Australia. In October 2016 I participated in the annual Seabeck Haiku Getaway.  I have participated in two Haiku festivals with the Meguro International Haiku Circle in Tokyo, in 2013 & 2019.  I am one of the foundation members of the Inkstone Poetry Forum, where poets gather online to workshop haiku, tanka and related forms.

Online journals

Echidna Tracks

Issue 12, 2024

hanging basket

Issue 11, 2023

winter fog

unseen cicadas

Issue 10, 2022-2023

coming home to Gweagal

morning round—

Issue 9, 2022

sewing new buttons

Clear Creek Trail

road trip

Issue 8, 2021-2022

gumnut caps rattle

creek song

Issue 7, 2021

gilding

Issue 6, 2020-2021

morning star

surviving inside

Issue 5, 2020

scent of lomandra

two pelicans

Issue 4, 2019-20

idly watching

a throbbing din

first stars ...

Issue 3, 2019

ants now crawling

jacaranda shade

a leaf bends

Issue 2, 2019

Kimberley coast

wind song

coal train—

Issue 1, 2018

demolition site

a young magpie

moonless night

wrought-iron lace