My home for New Zealand based haiku, senryu, little free form poems and prose inspired by nature, people and places particularly Taupo and Raglan - my online poetry workbook.
NEWS
Watch this space for new work....
Workshop held with the Taupo Writers and Poets Group 20 July 2021
Have a look at the NZ Poetry Day 2019 page.
Read my poetry along with poems by other NZ haiku exponents in the newly released Fourth New Zealand Haiku Anthology titled "Number Eight Wire" edited by Sandra Simpson and Margaret Beverland, Piwakawaka Press, Tauranga, 2019, ISBN: 978-0-473-46477-6
RECENT
Thank you to Judge Laurice Gilbert for selecting my haiku as the winner of the Tararua District Library Poetry Competition run for National Poetry Day (NZ) 2021
this pandemic
even the moon
standoffish
Thank you to the Judges who awarded my haiku an honourable mention in the Pumpkin Festival Haiku Contest (HRV) 2019
forty days of rain
fixing the hole in my shoe
with gourd
Thank you to the Judges who awarded my haiku an honourable mention in the Betty Drevniok Haiku Award (CAN) 2019
blackbird
she describes its flight
with her eyebrows
Thank you to the Judges who awarded my haiku a merit award in Montenegro's First International Haiku Festival (MNE) 2017
heat wave
the house fly drinks
my beer
Thank you to the Judges who selected my work for the Haiku Submission Collection in the 9th Yamadera Basho Memorial English Haiku Contest (JPN) 2017
withered leaves
the old woman
totters away
a month of rain
watching the paddocks
pucker up
Thank you to the Judges of the H. Gene Murtha Memorial Senryu Contest 2017 (US) who short listed my haiku:
departed son
the chess board left
as it was
Thank you to the Judges of the Sharpening the Green Pencil (ROU) 2017 Contest organised by the Romanian Kukai Group who selected my haiku from those submitted to be included in the book of the contest (viewable online):
bottling day
spiders eyes
in the foam
All poetry © Steven Clarkson 2012-2022 (no reproduction or other use of any work in whole or in part without prior written permission from the author)