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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