My poetry has appeared in five anthologies this year, which is a record for me. I thought I'd do a round up of them here as part of my end of year review, with thanks to all the editors who've published my work in 2012:
I have one haiku in The Heron's Nest, Volume XIII 2011, which is a collection of all the haiku from all the issues of The Heron's Nest that appeared on-line in 2011. This was my first time appearing in this annual anthology, and, to date, is the only haiku I've ever had published in The Heron's Nest. Copies can be bought from this link (either cheques to the postal address, or scroll to the bottom of the page for a PayPal option). You can read my haiku here.
Three of my tanka were chosen for the final volume of Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka, Volume 4. Again, this was my first time appearing in a Take Five anthology, and I'm honoured that my work was chosen from the eighteen thousand tanka read by the editorial team. You can purchase a copy here, or through Amazon. Read the tanka of mine that are included here.
A Blackbird Sings: a book of short poems is the second anthology to come from the River of Stones January small stone challenge (now renamed Mindful Writing Challenge for 2013-- Join us!). I have two small stones in this collection, which can be read here. You can buy a copy in print or Kindle from Amazon US and Amazon UK.
When one of my haiku won a Highly Commended placing in this years New Zealand Poetry Society International Haiku Competition I automatically made it into the annual anthology, Building a time machine. It was a bonus to have another haiku chosen for the collection by the editor. Read my two haiku here, and purchase your own copy here.
Last but not least, is the Haiku News Anthology 2009-2011, which is a collection of haiku, senryu and tanka chosen from the first three years of this unique on-line newspaper. I have one haiku in the collection that you can read here. Copies can be bought from here.
I can recommend all of these anthologies as Christmas gifts for yourself or the creative people in your life. My work is but a small part of these fine collections that comprise some of the best that short form poetry has to offer. Get into it!
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Showing posts with label Haiku News. Show all posts
Friday, December 7, 2012
Monday, November 5, 2012
Launching into November . . .
Three launches that include my haiku are happening this month, and unfortunately I won't make it to any of them! Never mind because the books will arrive soon. :)
First is the launch of Building a time machine - the 2012 New Zealand Poetry Society Anthology, edited by Owen Bullock. I have two haiku appearing in this anthology: one that received a Highly Commended in the NZPS International Haiku Competition, and a further ku that was chosen by the editor. Order your copy here.
Second is the opening of the exhibition When North meets South, organised by Ruth Arnison. This is where artists of all kinds from the South Island chose haiku from poets from the North Island and made works of art inspired by them. I can't wait to receive my copy of the exhibition booklet that will include my four chosen haiku turned into works of art by four different painters. Hopefully I'll be able to link some photos soon!
Last but not least is the launch of the Haiku News Anthology, edited by Dick Whyte (NZ) and Laurence Stacey (US). I have one haiku appearing in this anthology and look forward to seeing this unique collection. Presales are now being taken here to support the printing of the book.
Above is the November page of my calendar. The photo was taken last year at Papamoa Beach especially for this project. The haiku is one of my most published ku, originally taking out Third prize in the Katikati Haiku Contest (2008). I've been busy making a 2013 calendar to give to family and friends this Christmas. Lot's of new photos and haiku to enjoy throughout the year. Remember you can see all the pages from my 2012 calendar at the link on the side-bar: Kirsten's 2012 Calendar of Haiku & Photography.
Last month I did several new photo-haiga in collabortaion with Cara Holman. This was the first time for both of us working together in this way, and we've deemed it a great success! Three have already appeared in Margaret Dornaus' Day of the Dead post. Five more have been sent to Aubrie Cox, the new A Hundred Gourds haiga editor, for consideration in the next issue. All have used my images with Cara's haiku; plus I also sent in three that are all my own work. I've only submitted haiga twice to a journal and look forward to seeing how these collaborations fare, and to doing more of the same in the future. Happy haiku-ing, friends! :)
First is the launch of Building a time machine - the 2012 New Zealand Poetry Society Anthology, edited by Owen Bullock. I have two haiku appearing in this anthology: one that received a Highly Commended in the NZPS International Haiku Competition, and a further ku that was chosen by the editor. Order your copy here.
Second is the opening of the exhibition When North meets South, organised by Ruth Arnison. This is where artists of all kinds from the South Island chose haiku from poets from the North Island and made works of art inspired by them. I can't wait to receive my copy of the exhibition booklet that will include my four chosen haiku turned into works of art by four different painters. Hopefully I'll be able to link some photos soon!
Last but not least is the launch of the Haiku News Anthology, edited by Dick Whyte (NZ) and Laurence Stacey (US). I have one haiku appearing in this anthology and look forward to seeing this unique collection. Presales are now being taken here to support the printing of the book.
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| November 2012 - Kirsten's Calendar of Haiku & Photography |
Above is the November page of my calendar. The photo was taken last year at Papamoa Beach especially for this project. The haiku is one of my most published ku, originally taking out Third prize in the Katikati Haiku Contest (2008). I've been busy making a 2013 calendar to give to family and friends this Christmas. Lot's of new photos and haiku to enjoy throughout the year. Remember you can see all the pages from my 2012 calendar at the link on the side-bar: Kirsten's 2012 Calendar of Haiku & Photography.
Last month I did several new photo-haiga in collabortaion with Cara Holman. This was the first time for both of us working together in this way, and we've deemed it a great success! Three have already appeared in Margaret Dornaus' Day of the Dead post. Five more have been sent to Aubrie Cox, the new A Hundred Gourds haiga editor, for consideration in the next issue. All have used my images with Cara's haiku; plus I also sent in three that are all my own work. I've only submitted haiga twice to a journal and look forward to seeing how these collaborations fare, and to doing more of the same in the future. Happy haiku-ing, friends! :)
Monday, January 16, 2012
News From Haiku News
Greetings Friends!
We would like to announce that after
a several month hiatus, Haiku News will be returning in January. As often
happens, life got in the way and forced us to prioritize other things. However,
we are ready to begin 2012 with a new vision and commitment to publishing
excellent poetry that reflects the social and political events of our world.
On January 15th, we will begin accepting
submissions. Please email your tanka, senryu, and haiku to our new address, the4shades@gmail.com.
We would like to thank all of our
readers for being patient and supporting our journal through word of mouth and
quality poetry. Please be on the lookout for news about site updates, including
a new interview project headed by Laurence.
Thanks!
The Haiku News
Staff
Friday, November 18, 2011
What We Can Learn From Cows
drought
the cows
still chew their cud
Haiku News (November 28th, 2010)
Haiku and photograph
© Kirsten Cliff 2011
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
A Rainbow of Queer Ku
Last week, one of the NaHaiWriMo prompts was in honour of Gay and Lesbian Pride Month: Write about sexuality, gender identity or pride in general. I posted a few of my previously published haiku and senryu on the subject (all inspired by true events) and thought it would be good to gather them here in one post. I'd love to be part of a queer haiku (and related forms) anthology some day. For now: Enjoy!
through the smoke
dark red lips
of a drag queen
Published in Kokako 8 (April, 2008)
karaoke night
watching her adam's apple
bob
Published in Kokako 12 (April, 2010)
Commended, NZPS International Haiku Competition 2009
Published in moments in the whirlwind (NZPS Anthology, 2009)
sharing fries
they hold hands
under the table
Published on Haiku News online (Feb, 2011) in response to this article - McDonald's WiFi censors out glbt sites on GayNZ.com
through the smoke
dark red lips
of a drag queen
Published in Kokako 8 (April, 2008)
karaoke night
watching her adam's apple
bob
Published in Kokako 12 (April, 2010)
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| Photo taken, and peace cranes folded, by Kirsten Cliff |
marriage ceremony
both wear white
her dress her dress
Commended, NZPS International Haiku Competition 2009
Published in moments in the whirlwind (NZPS Anthology, 2009)
sharing fries
they hold hands
under the table
Published on Haiku News online (Feb, 2011) in response to this article - McDonald's WiFi censors out glbt sites on GayNZ.com
Friday, March 4, 2011
February Round-Up - A Month of Ups and Downs
Ah, February - the month of NaHaiWriMo (National Haiku Writing Month).
My enthusiasm waxed and waned throughout the month on this project. I did write a haiku-a-day for the whole 28 days, but it wasn't always satisfying, and sometimes done begrudgingly, or in desperation just before midnight!
However, I did write some haiku that I'm really proud of and will happily send in to haiku journals near and far. Some can be edited to rise up to a higher standard and some have already turned into tanka.
Challenges like this make you extend yourself as you have to find creative ways to respond to a prompt, or just to the daily practise when many other things may be going on in your life. This is why I will continue to participate in such projects, the next being the July river of stones challenge.
See my half-way through post for some more thoughts on the process. You can also read about when I set myself the challenge of writing a haiku-a-day for a whole year in 2007-2008 here.
Now that it's over I shall return to going with the flow and writing when the muse strikes. What I will continue is my daily reading from Haiku Mind by Patricia Donegan. Read my post about that here.
Funnily enough, I have easily written a haiku, or more, each day since NaHaiWriMo finished: must be the release of the pressure! But of course it was the challenge that helped hone my awareness of the haiku moment back to what it was before my writing stalled last year through cancer treatment.
February was also the month of a devastating earthquake in Christchurch, a large South Island city. Please see my blog post about it and read the haiku shared in the comments section, especially several by Michael Dylan Welch of his experiences in the 1989 earthquake in San Francisco.
Please feel free to share you own poems, haiku or other. I know poetry has been a great healer to me over the past year with my illness and I hope this opportunity to share will go a small way to helping others affected by the past two week's events.
Here's how I'm doing on my 2011 goal of submitting poetry to a publication or competition every week:
With my photography this month, I've been trying to get some good shots to submit as cover art for Four and Twenty. I've also been working on getting my cover art image ready for Kokako 15 (due out September 2011). I'm very excited about having my artwork feature on a haiku journal and hope to do more of this type of work in the future (not that it can really be called 'work'!)
No major plans for March except to continue with submitting to a poetry journal or competition at least once a week. So far so good on this resolve. Also, meeting with my local poetry group, Pacific Poets, Sunday 6 March, where we will be sharing poems we have written in response to the recent Christchurch earthquake.
Kia kaha to the people of Christchurch: my thoughts and prayers are with you daily.
My enthusiasm waxed and waned throughout the month on this project. I did write a haiku-a-day for the whole 28 days, but it wasn't always satisfying, and sometimes done begrudgingly, or in desperation just before midnight!
However, I did write some haiku that I'm really proud of and will happily send in to haiku journals near and far. Some can be edited to rise up to a higher standard and some have already turned into tanka.
Challenges like this make you extend yourself as you have to find creative ways to respond to a prompt, or just to the daily practise when many other things may be going on in your life. This is why I will continue to participate in such projects, the next being the July river of stones challenge.
See my half-way through post for some more thoughts on the process. You can also read about when I set myself the challenge of writing a haiku-a-day for a whole year in 2007-2008 here.
Now that it's over I shall return to going with the flow and writing when the muse strikes. What I will continue is my daily reading from Haiku Mind by Patricia Donegan. Read my post about that here.
Funnily enough, I have easily written a haiku, or more, each day since NaHaiWriMo finished: must be the release of the pressure! But of course it was the challenge that helped hone my awareness of the haiku moment back to what it was before my writing stalled last year through cancer treatment.
February was also the month of a devastating earthquake in Christchurch, a large South Island city. Please see my blog post about it and read the haiku shared in the comments section, especially several by Michael Dylan Welch of his experiences in the 1989 earthquake in San Francisco.
Please feel free to share you own poems, haiku or other. I know poetry has been a great healer to me over the past year with my illness and I hope this opportunity to share will go a small way to helping others affected by the past two week's events.
Here's how I'm doing on my 2011 goal of submitting poetry to a publication or competition every week:
- week five - submitted a free verse poem into the Spirit First Meditation Poetry Contest (first time submitting here) results out by March 31st
- AND submitted a haiku to Poem Cellars (first time submitting here) closed Feb 5th
- week six - submitted ten small stones to Fiona and Kaspa for the river of stones book and had one accepted
- AND submitted a previously published haiku to the HSA Haiku Wall (you can read about that here)
- week seven - submitted 10 haiku to Frogpond (first time submitting here) won't know outcome until after submission deadline April 15
- week eight - submitted a tanka to Haiku News and awaiting outcome
- AND submitted six tanka and six haiku to Presence (second time submitting here) and had four tanka and a haiku accepted for Issue #44 (May 2011). The haiku was written during NaHaiWriMo :)
With my photography this month, I've been trying to get some good shots to submit as cover art for Four and Twenty. I've also been working on getting my cover art image ready for Kokako 15 (due out September 2011). I'm very excited about having my artwork feature on a haiku journal and hope to do more of this type of work in the future (not that it can really be called 'work'!)
No major plans for March except to continue with submitting to a poetry journal or competition at least once a week. So far so good on this resolve. Also, meeting with my local poetry group, Pacific Poets, Sunday 6 March, where we will be sharing poems we have written in response to the recent Christchurch earthquake.
Kia kaha to the people of Christchurch: my thoughts and prayers are with you daily.
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| My Art is My Heart |
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| Peace is the way of my Heart |
Friday, February 25, 2011
The Devastation of Earthquake and Processing Through Poetry
Christchurch, in New Zealand's South Island, suffered a major earthquake this week.
Many people are displaced, injured, missing or deceased.
Many buildings are battered and broken, streets ripped apart, possessions lost forever.
I have been deeply moved by this event, although I'm not in the earthquake zone and am safe.
A chest x-ray I'd had recently came back clear this week: a small victory for me on my medical journey.
But all I kept thinking was of those in Christchurch who are just beginning their life-changing journey through the medical system with spinal injuries, amputations, and so on.
May they receive the same excellent level of care and attention that I received (and am still) on my journey through leukaemia.
Poetry has played a part in my healing process, and poems have already begun emerging from the earthquake rubble: one here by haiku poet Dick Whyte.
I have written a tanka and sent it in to Haiku News, and am sure I'll write more poems as the full extent of the tragedy unfolds for us all.
Pacific Poets, which meets next Sunday in Papamoa, will be sharing our grief at the devastation through poetry also.
I welcome you in sharing your poems in response to the Christchurch earthquake in the comments section of this post. (See 'comments' below for haiku from me and several by Michael Dylan Welch)
Information about how the poets in our haiku family are doing can be found here on Haiku NewZ. Thank you, Sandra Simpson, for keeping this updated.
Sending much hope and many prayers to the people of Christchurch and all affected by this disaster. Kia kaha.
Many people are displaced, injured, missing or deceased.
Many buildings are battered and broken, streets ripped apart, possessions lost forever.
I have been deeply moved by this event, although I'm not in the earthquake zone and am safe.
A chest x-ray I'd had recently came back clear this week: a small victory for me on my medical journey.
But all I kept thinking was of those in Christchurch who are just beginning their life-changing journey through the medical system with spinal injuries, amputations, and so on.
May they receive the same excellent level of care and attention that I received (and am still) on my journey through leukaemia.
Poetry has played a part in my healing process, and poems have already begun emerging from the earthquake rubble: one here by haiku poet Dick Whyte.
I have written a tanka and sent it in to Haiku News, and am sure I'll write more poems as the full extent of the tragedy unfolds for us all.
Pacific Poets, which meets next Sunday in Papamoa, will be sharing our grief at the devastation through poetry also.
I welcome you in sharing your poems in response to the Christchurch earthquake in the comments section of this post. (See 'comments' below for haiku from me and several by Michael Dylan Welch)
Information about how the poets in our haiku family are doing can be found here on Haiku NewZ. Thank you, Sandra Simpson, for keeping this updated.
Sending much hope and many prayers to the people of Christchurch and all affected by this disaster. Kia kaha.
Friday, February 4, 2011
January Round-Up - What a Month!
A warm welcome to my new readers and all those that have popped in over the course of January - international small stones writing month. I greatly appreciate your comments, and ticking of the 'like' and 'cool' boxes at the bottom of my posts :)
I've loved writing a small stone a day and adding it to the river, and have benefited greatly both mentally and spiritually from doing so. At the same time, I wrote up my small stones in my Mslexia Writer's Diary: a diary I bought for the first time this year and am so glad I did; highly recommend!
I've also enjoyed stopping into other stoners' blogs who I may not have found if it wasn't for this challenge, and I thank you all for sharing your stones. I look forward to submitting my ten best stones this month, and eventually reading many others' in the book to be put together by Fiona Robyn.
January saw me make a goal of submitting poetry to a publication or competition every week for 2011. Here's how I'm doing:
I had the opportunity to show them to my local fellow haiku writers at a small gathering in Tauranga on the 29th, which resulted in some good feedback. I'll carry on with this project while it still has meaning for me and the creative process brings me great joy.
January is extra special too because I made it to my first 100 blog posts! Thanks again to all those who have come along for the ride :)
So as you can see, there has been lots of great things happening for me, alongside my continuing treatment for leukaemia. Roll on February!
I've loved writing a small stone a day and adding it to the river, and have benefited greatly both mentally and spiritually from doing so. At the same time, I wrote up my small stones in my Mslexia Writer's Diary: a diary I bought for the first time this year and am so glad I did; highly recommend!
I've also enjoyed stopping into other stoners' blogs who I may not have found if it wasn't for this challenge, and I thank you all for sharing your stones. I look forward to submitting my ten best stones this month, and eventually reading many others' in the book to be put together by Fiona Robyn.
January saw me make a goal of submitting poetry to a publication or competition every week for 2011. Here's how I'm doing:
- week one - submitted six tanka to Eucalpyt (first time submitting here) won't hear outcome until after March 31st submission deadline for Issue 10
- week two - submitted one senryu to Haiku News (second time submitting here) was accepted, you can read it here
- week three - submitted five haiku and three tanka to Kokako; had two haiku and one tanka accepted for Issue 14, April 2011
- week four - submitted to Snapshot Press Haiku Calendar Competition (first time submitting here) results will be announced March 31st
- Four and Twenty (online short form poetry journal) - my image was chosen as the cover art for the January issue
- The Bay News 'Weather Photo' Page
- The Bay News 'Holiday Photo Competition' - closes Feb 4th
- And I'm very excited to have been asked to provide cover art for the next issue of Kokako (Issue 15, September 2011) Many thanks, Pat :)
I had the opportunity to show them to my local fellow haiku writers at a small gathering in Tauranga on the 29th, which resulted in some good feedback. I'll carry on with this project while it still has meaning for me and the creative process brings me great joy.
January is extra special too because I made it to my first 100 blog posts! Thanks again to all those who have come along for the ride :)
So as you can see, there has been lots of great things happening for me, alongside my continuing treatment for leukaemia. Roll on February!
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Reading the Haiku News
Have you been inspired by a news story that resulted in a haiku?
Then Haiku News is the place to submit it!
This is an online newspaper edited by Dick Whyte (NZ) and Laurence Stacey (USA) where "the personal is the political is the poetical."
I don't watch or read the news religiously, but Haiku News intrigues me.
I first thought it would be difficult to write haiku on a current event. Yet when I became open to the idea, I found that some news stories did inspire me, and I now enjoy having another outlet for my haiku.
I visit the site almost daily, and have read some very moving poems there. You can read one of mine here, and I sent in a further submission last week.
Please read the Submission Guidelines for full information.
Then Haiku News is the place to submit it!
This is an online newspaper edited by Dick Whyte (NZ) and Laurence Stacey (USA) where "the personal is the political is the poetical."
I don't watch or read the news religiously, but Haiku News intrigues me.
I first thought it would be difficult to write haiku on a current event. Yet when I became open to the idea, I found that some news stories did inspire me, and I now enjoy having another outlet for my haiku.
I visit the site almost daily, and have read some very moving poems there. You can read one of mine here, and I sent in a further submission last week.
Please read the Submission Guidelines for full information.
Friday, January 14, 2011
Submissions for Kokako 14 close February 1st, 2011
Kokako is a New Zealand magazine of haiku, tanka, haibun and related forms. It's edited by Patricia Prime and Joanna Preston, and is published twice a year in April and September.
Submissions should be previously unpublished and not under consideration elsewhere. Editors ask you to please make just one submission of up to 10 pieces during each submission period to kokakonz@gmail.com
I'm currently getting my submission of haiku and tanka ready to send to Kokako. This will be my submission for next week, which is the third week of 2011. This week (week two of the year) I submitted to Haiku News, which I will tell you more about soon!
Submissions should be previously unpublished and not under consideration elsewhere. Editors ask you to please make just one submission of up to 10 pieces during each submission period to kokakonz@gmail.com
I'm currently getting my submission of haiku and tanka ready to send to Kokako. This will be my submission for next week, which is the third week of 2011. This week (week two of the year) I submitted to Haiku News, which I will tell you more about soon!
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