Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival 2017

International Honourable Mention

cherry blossom

a little kick

beneath her rib

Hazel Hall

Australia

Museum of Literature

I was thrilled to receive my copy of the classy Blithe Spirit edited by Shrikaanth K. Murthy. And surprised to find myself with an honourable mention for the Museum of Literature Haiku Award for this ku, thanks to David Kelly:

pallbearer

trying to fill

his father's shoes

Other runners up were Bob Lucky, John Rowlands, Phillip Morell, Helen Buckingham and John Gonzales. 

The winning poem is just beautiful. It's by Kohjin Sakamoto:

spring morning . . .

ploughing the warm air

into the soil

Bush Stone Curlew to become part of an educational resoutce

Happy that Bush Stone Curlew, originally written for the Bimblebox Project will now to be included in a school education resource for the Nature Conservation Working Group's (NCWG) Bush Stone-curlew project. 

http://www.bushstonecurlew.com.au/about

The resource will contain an array of fact and activity sheets to help primary school students learn all about Bush Stone-curlews, their threats, why they are an important part of the Aussie bush and what is being done to help them.

The resource will be used by NCWG (a non-profit, non- government, environmental group) to raise awareness of the BSC and available on both theirs and the Wirraminna Environmental Education Centre website (http://www.wirraminna.org.au ).