Organisers of the Katikati Haiku Contest are reminding
anyone planning to send poems that entries close on October 31. See entry
details here.
The contest has two sections – 17 and under, and 18 and over
– and offers cash prizes totalling $85 in the junior section and $175 in the
adult section, as well as a book prize for the best haiku by a local writer.
In English, haiku are usually three lines long, can be said
in one breath, are written in the present tense, capture a moment, contain at least one of the five senses, use
everyday language and are usually set in a particular season.
Newcomers to haiku will receive valuable help from a free,
online booklet published this year by the New Zealand Poetry Society. Learning to Write Haiku by Katherine
Raine covers techniques and offers a lesson plan. See the booklet at poetrysociety.org.nz/HaikuHelp
Read more about the Katikati Haiku Pathway,
the first – and still the largest – collection of poem boulders in English.
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