It’s the first day of spring in Melbourne. Blossoms are blooming, peas and broad beans are shooting up and the snails are leaving ample evidence that they’ve come out of hibernation. In North America, the bushfire/wildfire season is waning and the milder days of autumn approaching. The world still turns. Welcome to the 16th issue of A Hundred Gourds, a quarterly journal of haiku, haibun, haiga, tanka and renku poetry is now online for your reading pleasure. http://www.ahundredgourds.com AHG 4.4 Feature The Second International Haiku Conference in Krakow, Poland (May 15-17, 2015) We’re privileged to visit Poland via Brian Robertson’s report on the Second International Haiku Conference in Krakow, which was held in May this year. Both Brian’s text and the accompanying photos convey, to those of us who couldn’t be there, a sense of the friendliness, enthusiasm and expertise that was shared. Congratulations to all who were involved in this clearly very successful event! Expositions Terry Ann Carter’s essay, Chiyo-ni and Aisatsu: The Poetry of Greeting, demonstrates, with her selections of Chiyo-ni’s haiku and contemporary EL haiku, a time-honoured social function of Japanese haiku. Rob Scott reviews Robert Kania’s 39 haiku, Susan Constable reviews Joy McCall’s rising mist, fieldstones and Lorin Ford reviews Cherie Hunter Day’s apology moon.

A Hundred Gourds is still looking for a suitable editor for our Expositions section. Please direct any enquiries regarding the Expositions section and submit your book reviews, essays or commentaries on individual poems for AHG to me, Lorin, until further notice.

Submissions Deadline

The deadline for all submissions to AHG 5.1 (the December 2015 issue) is September 15th. AHG has an open submissions policy: any submissions received after the deadline will be filed for consideration for the March 2016 issue. Please check our submissions page for details and editors’ guidelines.

Please take the time to read the AHG submissions page, including the editors’ individual comments, and ensure that your submission complies with all requirements.

Lorin Ford – Haiku Editor, Managing Editor,
for the Editorial Team, A Hundred Gourds —

Poetic Inspirations @ Emerald

and open mic

Poetic inspirations @ Emerald
Calling all poets and lovers of poetry Especially all those who write in another language than English and/or have their work in a bilingual or a translated form
Every second Saturday of the month

With two guest poets every month
The room can seat up to 30 persons. There is a kitchen available to use, with the usual facilities, including crockery and a hot water urn. The room also has audio visual equipment and screen if it will be required. The following Reading dates through out 2015 are as follows: October 10, 11.45am-1.45pm November 14, 11.45am-1.45pm December 12, 11.45am-1.45pm

For more information:

– Dimitri Troaditis troaditisdimitris@gmail.com and/or 0432 094 342
– Emerald Library and Heritage Centre
Art & Heritage Programs | Arts & Culture 9209 6416

Australian Poetry: Last Call for Submissions
Last Day to Submit to the Australian Poetry Journal and Annual Anthology

Australian Poetry Journal Vol 5 No 2 and the 2015 Australian Poetry Anthology are both open for submissions but closing midnight tonight, Saturday 15 August.

Australian Poetry Journal Vol 5 No 2 will be Michael Sharkey’s fourth issue as Editor,

and the 2015 Australian Poetry Anthology will be co-edited by esteemed poets Sarah Holland-Batt (QLD) and Brook Emery (NSW).

Don’t miss this wonderful opportunity to have your work featured in two quality Australian Poetry publications.

Submit now through our online submissions manager: australianpoetry.submittable.com/submit 

As an extension of the 2015 Antipodean Palette, the Greek Australian Cultural League will host an afternoon of poetry centred about the theme of ‘poetry as a healing agent.’ Eight Greek-Australian poets will entertain the audience with pieces intimately connected to the part creativity can play in self-development and healing. Accompanying them will be the special guest poet M.G. Michael for what promises to be a cerebrally stimulating and memorable afternoon.

M.G. Michael is a Sydney-born poet and academic. He is an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Wollongong, and his poetry has been published in the anthology Southern Sun, Aegean Light (edited by N.N. Trakakis), as well as in a number of literary journals, including Southerly, Westerly, and Ulitarra. He participated in the Antipodes Writer’s Festival held in Melbourne in 2012. His poetry book titled Keepers of a Great Memory is the third in a new series of chapbooks edited by Nick Trakakis, Helen Nickas and Peter Lyssiotis, and published by Owl Publishing, Melbourne.

The other presenters are Dimitris Troaditis, Panayiota (Pixie) Trangas, Steve Messinis, Athina Ginakis, Nick Trakakis, George Athanasiou, Monika Athanasiou and Paul Kiritsis

The ‘poetry as a healing agent’ readings will take place on 16th August, 2015, at 4.00pm at the Steps Gallery, 62 Lygon St., Carlton.

For further details please contact Paul Kiritsis, the host of the event, on 0487-902-169.

We hope to see you there!

ΔΕΛΤΙΟ ΤΥΠΟΥ

Οι Ολύμπιοι στη Ραψάνη | β’ κύκλος ποιητικής αυτογνωσίας

12 ποιητές σε κρίση συνομιλούν μεταξύ τους και με το κοινό

Εγκαινιάζοντας τον περασμένο Αύγουστο με ιδιαίτερη επιτυχία τον α’ κύκλο ποιητικής αυτογνωσίας στη Ραψάνη Ολύμπου παρουσία 12 ποιητών-ποιητριών απ’ όλη τη χώρα, έτσι και φέτος 12 νέοι Ολύμπιοι θα πάρουν θέση στον β’ κύκλο που θα έχει ως θέμα του: «12 ποιητές σε κρίση συνομιλούν μεταξύ τους και με το κοινό».

Η καθιερωμένη πλέον σύναξη θα πραγματοποιηθεί το Σάββατο 22 Αυγούστου στις 20.30 στο πέτρινο θεατράκι του “Μήτια” στη Ραψάνη, συνοδεία γλυκόπιοτου ολυμπίσιου οίνου.

Ο κύκλος των φετινών συμμετεχόντων θα περιλαμβάνει τους ποιητές: Αντώνη Αντωνάκο, Νίκο Βουτυρόπουλο, Πέτρο Γκολίτση, Δημήτρη Κανελλόπουλο, Κατερίνα Καριζώνη, Χλόη Κουτσουμπέλη, Κώστα Παπαθανασίου, Δημήτρη Παπαστεργίου, Παύλο Παρασκευαϊδη, Βάσω Χριστοδούλου, Σωτήρη Παστάκα και Γιώργο Σαράτση.

Οικοδεσπότης και συνδιοργανωτής ο ποιητής Βασίλης Σιουζουλής

Είσοδος ελεύθερη για το κοινό

Χορηγοί επικοινωνίας-υποστήριξης: diavasinet.gr-Περιοδικό Πολιτιστικής Αρθρογραφίας | Δημοτική Βιβλιοθήκη Ραψάνης | Λογοτεχνικό περιοδικό Oροπέδιο | Χορίαμβος Πολιτιστικός σύλλογος | Ποιείν-Poiein.gr | Ηλεκτρονικό Περιοδικό “Στάχτες” | Intellectum Journal | Ιστολόγιο “Μαύρη Χήνα”

Poetic inspirations @ Emerald

Calling all poets and lovers of poetry Especially all those who write in another language than English and/or have their work in a bilingual or a translated form Every second Saturday of the month

Next reading is

195 Bank St.,
South Melbourne
(opposite South Melbourne Town Hall)

The following Reading dates through out 2015 are as follows: September 12, 11.45AM-1.45PM October 10, 11.45AM-1.45PM November 14, 11.45AM-1.45PM December 12, 11.45AM-1.45PM

For more information:

– Dimitri Troaditis troaditisdimitris@gmail.com and/or 0432 094 342
– Emerald Library and Heritage Centre
Art & Heritage Programs | Arts & Culture 9209 6416

***The room can seat up to 30 persons. There is a kitchen available to use, with the usual facilities, including crockery and a hot water urn. The room also has audio visual equipment and screen if it will be required.