Kirsten Cliff Elliot
Born 1977 in Auckland, New Zealand
Living in Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand
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Kirsten Cliff
between breaths
following the white
of this butterfly
	The Heron's Nest Volume XV, Number 2: June 2013; 
	Still Heading Out: An anthology of Australian and New Zealand haiku (eds. Jacqui Murray & Katherine Samuelowicz, paper wasp 2013)
drifting evensong
pine needles cloistered
in fresh snow
5th Prize, New Zealand Poetry Society International Haiku Competition 2013; 
Given an ordinary stone (ed. Owen Bullock, NZPS Anthology 2013); 
Still Heading Out: An anthology of Australian and New Zealand haiku (eds. Jacqui Murray & Katherine Samuelowicz, paper wasp 2013)
heartsick . . .
the floxgloves of my childhood
out of reach
Issa's Untidy Hut, Wednesday Haiku #106, 13 March, 2013
first winter's day
I slip into
his gumboots
The Heron's Nest Volume XIII, Number 3: September 2011; 
A New Resonance 8: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku(eds. Jim Kacian & Dee Evetts, Red Moon Press 2013); 
Now This: Contemporary Poems of Renewals, Beginnings and Firsts(ed. Robert Epstein, Wasteland Press 2013); 
Still Heading Out: An anthology of Australian and New Zealand haiku (eds. Jacqui Murray & Katherine Samuelowicz, paper wasp 2013)
coming home
to an empty house
so many stars
Kokako 12 (April 2010); 
evolution: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku (ed. Jim Kacian, Red Moon Press 2011); 
A New Resonance 8: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku (eds. Jim Kacian & Dee Evetts, Red Moon Press 2013); 
Still Heading Out: An anthology of Australian and New Zealand haiku (eds. Jacqui Murray & Katherine Samuelowicz, paper wasp 2013)
winter afternoon
one empty space
in the library carpark
Honourable Mention, Haiku International Association 2009 Haiku Contest; 
Poems in the Waiting Room pamphlet, Winter 2013 edition; 
Still Heading Out: An anthology of Australian and New Zealand haiku (eds. Jacqui Murray & Katherine Samuelowicz, paper wasp 2013)
navigating
these country roads
the curl of her hair
Highly Commended, New Zealand Poetry Society International Haiku Competition 2008; 
Before the Sirocco (ed. Joanna Preston, NZPS Anthology 2008); 
HSA "Haiku Wall" exhibited in the historic Liberty Theatre Gallery 
at the Quarterly National Haiku Society of America  Meeting in Bend, Oregon on June 3-5, 2011 
as part of the down town Bend Oregon First Friday June Art Walk; 
Still Heading Out: An anthology of Australian and New Zealand haiku (eds. Jacqui Murray & Katherine Samuelowicz, paper wasp 2013)
day moon
hoof prints litter
the beach track
Third Prize, Katikati Haiku Contest 2008; 
bravado 14 (November 2008);
 “Poems from Aotearoa” Per Diem: Daily Haiku on The Haiku Foundation website 
(ed. Sandra Simpson, April 2012); The Haiku Foundation Haiku App for the Apple Platform (2012)
heat shimmer
a heron drinks
from the horse trough
The Heron's Nest Volume XV, Number 1 (March 2013); 
Still Heading Out: An anthology of Australian and New Zealand haiku 
(eds. Jacqui Murray & Katherine Samuelowicz, paper wasp 2013)
sun-soaked sky . . .
seeking out the wisdom
of beach glass
A New Resonance 8: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku 
(eds. Jim Kacian & Dee Evetts, Red Moon Press 2013)
