Record of Past Winners from 2002 – 2008
Past Winners of the James W. Hackett Award 2002 – 2009
2002 Winner
scattering at sea . . .
the great blue heron
glides through him Kathy Lippard Cobb (USA )
He has also chosen four haiku as Highly Commended (in alphabetical order):
beyond illusion
the stone worn smooth
in the stream Marian Olsen (USA)
in a pause
when the wind dies
the coo of a dove Marianne Bluger (Canada)
spring sun
the cat visits the greenhouse
through a broken pane Fred Schofield (UK)
the evening sky . . .
I leave the curtains open
a while longer Alison Williams (UK)
2003 Winners
James W Hackett has chosen two overall winning poems of equal merit:
lengthening shadow – night and the river
above her eggs the hen’s heart dark and empty row boats
beats against my arm full of mist
Beverley George (Australia) Ross Figgins (USA)
and four Highly Commended haiku (in alphabetical order):
moonless night
I borrow the light
of snow
Marjorie Buettner (USA)
over the mourners
a flock of geese are calling
on their journey north
Trevor Christie (England)
plum blossoms
lovers looking everywhere
at each other
Ernest J Berry (NZ)
2004 Winner
in tonight’s woods
a traveller at ease
the cracking buds Mike Howell (USA)
The following fine poems are highly commended:
2005 Winners
The two equal winning haiku for 2005 (with comments by J W Hackett) are:
The following six poems are highly commended:
2006 Winners
(JH) (DC)
Highly Commended: (JH) (DC)
2007 Winners
JH DC
polarized light –
the mixed melodies
of twilight birds.
an’ya (US)
2007 Highly Commended (in no particular order)
2008 Winners
David Cobb’s Winner:
estuary fog –
a bell boomerangs
from shore to shore
Malcolm Williams (UK)
Highly Commended Haiku
David Cobb’s choices:
Melting snowflakes –
the night watchman
remains alone
Eduard Tara (Romania)
now he’s here
the coarse hair of the horse . . .
summered grasses
John Barlow (UK)
James Hackett’s choices:
no longer knowing
every bend in the road . . .
last quarter moon
John Barlow (UK)
2009 Winners
James Hackett’s winner:
in the silence
before the dreaming
the warmth of a paw on my hand
Claire Knight (UK)
A close second:
no sign of puppy
in the old dog’s eyes
deep winter
Kathy Lippard Cobb (USA)
James Hackett’s highly commended:
crossing the pause her book closed, mayflies –
in the shouting she listens – writing their passion
the cat takes my side the geese are returning on the stream
Richard Tindall (UK) Graham Duff (UK) Keith Heiberg (US)A
Dee Evetts’ highly commended:
neon buzz
of the allnight
crossroad
Roland Packer (Canada)
leaf storm
she says something
I don’t catch
paul m. (USA)
cemetery kiosk . . .
attending to the taste
of peppermint tea
John Bird (Australia)
the heat…
my wife down there
lost in lotuses
Michael Fessler (Japan)
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spring sunshine
an old person now lives
in my body
Jim Kacian (USA)
dusk . . .
and the blackbird’s song
slips between thoughts
Jill Bennett (Scotland)
late autumn hedgerow –
the tastiest blackberry
beyond reach
R M Atkinson (Scotland)
honeysuckle
a bundle of sticks
under the snow
Ian Daw (England)
nettles hide
faded sweet wrappers –
a rusty swing creaks
Tamsin Reeves (England)
unraveling back
to the lost stitch –
autumn loneliness
Marjorie Buettner (USA)
winter festival
a village stray settles
at the buskers feet
John Bird (Australia)
deep mourning
deeper still in the forest
dogwood in bloom
Scott Mason (USA)
returning sun –
the glitter of snow where I sowed
my father’s ashes
Scott Mason (USA)
turn of the tide
for a while, a starfish clasping
both sea and shore
Sheila K Barksdale (USA)
news of a friend's death –
a sharp wind blows onshore
and the mist rolls in
Trevor Christie (UK)
bounce bounce bounce
over the winter fairway
a couple of crows
Michael Fessler (Japan)
glove compartment
acorns picked up
at mother’s funeral
John Parsons (UK)
remembrance…
two seagulls arc together
wheel apart
Helen Buckingham (UK)
derelict airfield
forget-me-nots in
the cracked concrete
Malcolm Williams (UK)
scudding ahead of me
with the autumn leaves
my hat
Doris Heitmeyer (USA)
moonlit church vestry
a hint of incense
in the flower vase
Malcolm Williams (UK)
December
the grey pebble holds open
a cookery book
Ken Cockburn (UK)
trout splash
the river returns
to blackness
John Barlow (UK)
garden shed
a packet of carnations
he would’ve planted
Katrina Shepherd (UK)
end of autumn
finding only the antlers
of the old buck
Tony A. Thompson (USA)
quiet inlet
a great blue heron stilled
on its reflection
Bruce Ross (USA)
Also commended (in no order, but the first was chosen by both adjudicators):
JH DC
construction site
somewhere among the girders
wind chimes
Doris Heitmeyer (USA)
deepening dusk
through the scent of burning leaves
the caw of a crow
Vanessa Proctor (Australia)
far from shore
a bee lands on the sail
last summer day
Mara Mills (USA)
mountain summit
the wind I struggled against
dries my brow
Scott Mason (USA)
into the pinks
on the washing line –
fireweed seeds
John Barlow (UK)
car door clunk
a shell of fresh snow
falls utterly away
Scott Mason (US)
David Cobb’s choices:
backyard reverie
the expanding cosmos
of watermelon seeds Scott Mason
windfall apples
the softness
of the pony’s mouth Claire Knight
my late dad’s effects –
the startle when i find
his heavy belt hanabi
The first is a captivating picture of someone at leisure to ‘see a world in a grain of sand.’ The second artfully leads us towards one expectation – that the apples are soft (which of course they are) – only to tell us that the pony’s mouth is even softer.
And the third catches us unawares – we don’t realise the possible significance of that ‘dull’ (but ambiguous) word ‘effects’ until we have read the whole, possibly not once but several times: what ‘effect’ might that belt have had at some time in the past, before it became an ‘effect’, to have such a strong effect once more when rediscovered?
I would like to place 4 more haiku / senryu in the
‘Commended’ category:
howling wind –
an autumn note within
the bamboo flute Kala Ramesh (India)
Arctic meltwater –
the white whales moulting
in harmony Malcolm Williams
(Eng)
big city park,
passersby queuing
to nose a lilac Scott Mason (US)
family bible
a wisp of my baby hair
in Revelation Ernest J Berry (NZ)
James Hackett’s choices:
sunrise –
a goose on the river calling
to geese in the sky
Martin Lucas (Eng)
Summer at last –
cloud watching
on my back
Vin Godier (Wales)
memorial –
from her favourite vase
the smell of fresh flowers
Trevor Christie (Eng)
midges twist
in and out of sunlight
the bittern’s neck
John Barlow (Eng)
her fingertip
follows the name of the brother
who didn’t return
André Surridge (NZ)
Normandy sunset—
a steeple quivers
in the red-tinged bay
Scott Mason (US)
old logging camp
wagon tracks disappear
into wildflowers
Tony A Thompson
(US)
James Hackett’s Winner:
asparagus bed –
I compost ashes
from a decade of poems
Linda Jeanette Ward (USA)
Still waiting
for the hungry whales –
myriads of stars
Eduard Tara (Romania)
folding clothes
I am here then not here –
winter’s first rain
Marjorie Buettner (USA)
beating the rain…
Dad lingers
to smell the pinks
Helen Buckingham (UK)
a tide line
the gull shifts between
its reflection and shadow
Natalia L Rudychev a.k.a. Liao (USA)
Dee Evetts’ Winner
bee on a black key –
I halt the metronome
Malcolm Williams (UK)
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