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        Barbara Strang

Barbara Strang was born in Invercargill, the eldest of a family of 10. She has three adult children, and lives by the estuary in Christchurch. She has spent most of her adult life within sight of the sea.

Her haiku have appeared in all the annual anthologies of the New Zealand Poetry Society for the past 10 years. She has also been published twice in the annual Red Moon anthology (US). She has won the NZPS Haiku contest twice, won the Kokako contest in 2004 and and was first equal in 2005.

She has edited KiwiHaiku for the NZPS magazine, a fine line, and is a member of the Small White Teapot Haiku Group which meets in Christchurch. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from Victoria University, Wellington. Her first book of poetry Duck Weather (Poets Group) was published in 2006. Contact Barbara.

  
wedding day
the pear tree
sheds petals
  
crawling through the cellar
you speak
of the past
  
homecoming -
the potatoes burst
into flower
  
tête-à-tête
his breath steams up
her glasses
  
New Year gardening
the ground
further away
  
homecoming -
the wheel on my case
squeaks
  
3 a.m.
the tock tock
of the two dollar clock
  
Sunday roast -
white flesh
on the balconies
  
you speak of divorce
the morning sun
in your face

 

Publication notes:
wedding day: The Ordinary Magic (New Zealand Poetry Society anthology, 1997), Second New Zealand Haiku Anthology (1997) and Listening to the Rain (Small White Teapot, 2002).
crawling through the cellar: Second New Zealand Haiku Anthology and Listening to the Rain.
homecoming - : The Old Moon and So On (NZPS anthology, 1994), Second New Zealand Haiku Anthology.
tête-à-tête: Catching the Rainbow (NZPS anthology, 1996), Second New Zealand Haiku Anthology and Listening to the Rain.
New Year gardening: Kokako 3 (2005).
homecoming - : An Exchange of Gifts (NZPS anthology, 2001), and Listening to the Rain.
3 a.m: Presence 20 (UK), 2003.
Sunday roast - : Famous Reporter 27 (Australia), June 2003.
you speak of divorce: Catching the Rainbow, Second New Zealand Haiku Anthology and Listening to the Rain.

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