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This page carries a brief summary of What's New on
the website - additions and amendments to other pages. So this is the page for you to
bookmark now and return to regularly to check on new BHS happenings.
For any item that may interest you, just click on the appropriate page title in the menu at the left
side of the screen or the one at the foot of this page to go there for the full story.
And since they will then no longer be 'new', items on this page will be removed after three months or
thereabouts.
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27 Apr 2008: An updated list of titles available from the Society has been posted to
our Bookshop page. Several older items are now sold out and unlikely ever to be reprinted. However, one
sought-after item that has entered reprint is our own The Genius of Haiku: Readings from R H Blyth
and David Cobb, who runs our Bookshop, will be pleased to mail you a copy as soon as your order and payment are
received. You can also order our latest BHS Haibun Anthology, Dover Beach & My Back Yard and more
details of both titles, including full-colour front cover illustrations, can be viewed by clicking the link
at the top of the Bookshop page.
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26 Apr 2008: The results of the 2007 Annual BHS James W Hackett International Award
for Haiku are now on our Competitions page, along with the two winning poems, the Highly Commended and
Commended entries and illuminating comments from the judges and the Award administrator. Also there are details
of this year's Award entry procedures and requirements - you have until 30 November to submit.
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19 Apr 2008: Quite a number of changes and updates this time! Firstly, BHS now has an
on-line discussion forum hosted on the Yahoo Groups website. The BHS Forum is managed by David Serjeant and is
open only to paid-up members of the society. If you are not already a Yahoo Groups subscriber, you will need to
sign-up first (it is free and although you will be invited to create a user profile you need only provide your
e-mail address (which is not shown in full on group postings) and enter a group id and password (both entirely of
your own creating), then formally apply to join the BHS Group. The group can be found at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/britishhaikusociety and this address has been added to both our Home ('British
Haiku Society' on the menu list) and Links pages.
We have now created a separate page off our Bookshop page on which to showcase our own publications. So far
Martin Lucas's Stepping Stones: a Way into Haiku and Dover Beach and My Back Yard, the
BHS Haibun Anthology 2007 are shown there, with basic information about content and a full-colour front cover
illustration. Further titles will be added in due course. While checking out the details on this new page (and
concluding that you really must have one or both books), please also check out the full lists of available titles
on the main Bookshop page and see what else you need for your personal library.
Preliminary details of this year's Annual General Meeting and Autumn Event in London in November are on the Events
page. We hope as many members as possible will be able to attend, so please start planning now and reserve
22 November in your diary. Also on the Events page is a notice of an exhibition of contemporary lace at the
DeMorgan Centre in south-west London, which includes a piece Haiku Streamer inspired by the British Museum
Haiku book and by a meeting with David Cobb. The exhibition runs until 31 May.
Finally, in addition to adding the BHS Discussion Forum web address to the Links page, we have added a link
to a new haibun journal, Haibun Today and for a tanka journal, Eucalypt. The February
issue of the former featured interviews with David Cobb and Ken Jones, the latter is published biannually in Australia
and is edited by Beverley George.
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12 Apr 2008: On our Events page you will find details of a Haiku Day in Broadstairs,
on the East Kent coast, on Saturday, 21 June. This is being hosted by our member Felicity Brookesmith and although
it is a BHS event, it is open to non-members. Places are, however, limited, so if you intend going for what
promises to be an enjoyable day by the seaside, you need to book your place sooner rather than later.
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10 Dec 2007: Two new 'sample' sets of haiku, senryu, tanka, haibun and articles from the
Spring and Summer issues of the current volume of Blithe Spirit have now replaced earlier 'samples'
and can be viewed via the link on the Journal page. The British Haiku Society is also taking on
postal sales of past-President Martin Lucas's exciting new book, Stepping Stones. Its sub-title, "A way into
haiku", indicates that it is rather more than another anthology - see the BHS Publications page (a link off
the Bookshop page for more details, including price and how to order a copy.
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08 Dec 2007: There is an illustrated report on the Events page, covering the
BHS AGM and Autumn Event (formerly referred-to as a 'Jolly Day') which took place in London on 24 November.
The turnout was excellent and we believe that a thoroughly good time was had by all, so make a note NOW
to attend next year if you possibly can. Details will be announced on the website in due coure.
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20 Nov 2007: Sterling work by long-standing member Dick Pettit has produced an Index to
the many articles, comments, reviews and other substantial or significant items that have appeared in our journal
Blithe Spirit throughout its existence. We have created a new page, Journal Index which may
be reached by first going to the Journal page (click on the page name in the menu at left or at the bottom of
this page), then clicking on the link there. Dick admits this 'first cut' may
perhaps contain errors and omissions and if you find any such, please do tell us.
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You will see at the bottom of the menu frame at left a brief note of recommended
Internet browser and screen display settings. You don't have to follow these, of course, but the actual
arrangement of lines and spacings of some of the haiku which appear here and there may not display quite as
intended in other settings, most particularly the browser 'text size' settings.
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