Third Australia Haiku Anthology

Edited by Jacqui Murray and Katherine Samuelowicz.
ISBN: 978-1-921214-94-3 A5 74pp
AUD $20.00 + p&p.

Published by paper wasp. Available through Post Pressed.

From the Foreword

A national anthology presents an opportunity to take stock of the health and development if the writing form it celebrates and this third anthology of Australian haiku is definitely a celebration. Australian haiku poets have found their own voice. It is a voice that is strong, mature and confident. Gone are the self conscious references to the Japanese origins of haiku in flowers such as cherry blossoms and in their place are those things more familiar to poets skilfully revelling in their own time, space and place...

Jacqui Murray, for the editors, 2011

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Excerpts

Lynette Arden

willow pattern
the bowerbird displays
his best blue chip

beach umbrella
tying down
the wind

drought
a fallen leaf curls
over its shadow

garden path
ants bring tiny shadows
into the sunshine.

Alex Ask

waiting for a haiku
a blow fly
pats my back

three black swans
the ripples of the river
file behind

mothers' meeting
a flock of magpies
suddenly on the patio

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