Paige's Book Gallery puts on haiku competition for poetry day
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Save Paiges Book Gallery and Lockett Gallery owner Lesley Stead. Photo / Lewis Gardner
Paige's Book Gallery is offering $100 to the best haiku in a competition to celebrate National Poetry Day.
Keen poets can send their haiku to hello@paigesbooks.com or drop it off at Paige's book gallery on the corner of Guyton and Wicksteed Sts.
All entries must be in by August 27
and a winner will be announced on Thursday, September 2.
As well as the $100 prize the winning haiku will be entered into the Guyton St poetry trail.
A haiku is a Japanese poem with 17 syllables in three lines with five, seven and then five syllables.