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               Patricia Prime     

Patricia Prime recently retired from fulltime teaching and now works part-time and teaches children in a reading recovery programme.

She is co-editor of the haiku journal Kokako, a selection editor for Haibun Today, reviews editor of the Australian online magazine Stylus, one of the judges for the Seashell Game for Haiku Presence (UK), and poetry judge for MetVerse Muse (India). Patricia has won several awards for her haiku, tanka and haibun, and  has published several books of collaborative poetry: Sweet Penguins, The Place Where, Every Drop Stone Pebble (with two other poets), and her own collection, Accepting Summer. She has edited an anthology of new and established New Zealand writers, Something Between Breaths. Patricia has recently published a renku, Saint Brigid's Day, written with two UK poets, and a self-published haiku chapbook, East Cape, in collaboration with Catherine Mair. Patricia is working on a collection of her tanka. Contact Pat.

 

a stone hedgehog
stolen from the garden -
I find a live one
  
ferry terminal
listening to his walkman
the old sailor
  
Indian summer
small boys run naked
on the tide line
  
morning mist
the swallows return
to last year's nest
  
evening dusk
the scent of lavender
in the cottage garden
  
nudging the line
a red snapper
takes the bait
  
a brief shower
the kayaker
paddles faster
  
igniting the snow
the rising sun catches
Mt. Hutt in its rays
  
shopping centre
a downtown view
of the Tasman Sea
  
new caravan site
in his hand
a field mushroom

 

Publication notes:
a stone hedgehog: unpublished.
ferry terminal: unpublished.
Indian summer: The Heron's Nest (US) Vol. 7, 2005.
morning mist:  ibid.
evening dusk: Blithe Spirit (UK) Vol. 16, No. 1, 2006.
nudging the line: ibid.
brief shower: ibid.
igniting the snow: Time Haiku (UK) 23, 2006.
shopping centre: ibid.
new caravan site: East Cape, with Catherine Mair (self-published chapbook), 2006.

                                                                                                          

                                                                                                           Haiku by Patricia Prime, Katikati Haiku Pathway
                                                                                                           (Sandra Simpson photo).

                                                                                                          

                                                                                          

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