Catherine Bullock started writing haiku in 1999, and her work has been published in a number of journals and anthologies, in New Zealand and overseas. She has also been placed or commended in several competitions.

Her haiku and senryu often have a humorous twist. Catherine, who spends most of her free time wrestling with her garden, lives in Waihi. Email Catherine.

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hazy islands
drifting out to sea
on the ebbing day

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walking in the sun
a bird’s shadow
swoops through mine

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camp kitchen –
watching someone else’s
pot boil

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by the lake
two suns
in my eyes

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spring-cleaning –
the spiders climb back
to spotless corners

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the ascending scale
as the nail
is hammered home

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bright day –
stirring the sun
into my paintpot

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muggy heat   mytoffeessticktogether

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evening calm –
duck’s wake
the width of the estuary

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holiday cottage –
next door’s rowdy
tuis

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Publication notes

hazy islands : Grand Prize, Kusamakura Haiku Contest (Japan), 2000.

walking in the sun : Presence 16 (UK), 2001.

camp kitchen – : An Exchange of Gifts (New Zealand Poetry Society anthology), 2001.

by the lake : Paper Wasp 9.1 (Australia), 2003.

spring cleaning – : Bravado 5 (New Zealand), 2005.

the ascending scale : Third, Kokako Haiku Competition (NZ), 2007.

bright day – : Kokako 17, 2012.

muggy heat : Paper Wasp 20.2, 2014.

evening calm – : Best local haiku, Katikati Haiku Competition, 2014.

holiday cottage – : Commended, Kokako Haiku Competition, 2015.