Welcome to Haiku In The Hills, a playful Poetry Month experience that explores the Japanese poetic form on Wurundjeri land, amidst the cool temperate rainforests of the Dandenong Ranges. Part writing workshop and part bushwalk, we will walk, contemplate and create Haiku together.

History is displayed in signs and facades, breathed into the leaves of red river gums and plane trees, shaped into the corners and slopes of streets and beds of grass, resounding in busker ballads and protest chants, held in the bubbles and sediments of bluestone that we walk over and are sheltered by. In this walking poetry workshop, we will connect with the power of place, respecting and knowing that the street grids of Naarm, so-called ‘Melbourne’, are a colonial form imposed on Woi-Worrung and Bunurung lands and waters.