Catchment – Poetry of Place: third edition

Submissions welcome – open 21st September to 21st November, 2024.

Thanks to all AHS members who have offered contributions to the first two issues of Catchment – Poetry of Place: such interest and support is greatly appreciated!

Australian poets are again encouraged to submit work which explores a sense of location, either in tanka or in longer Western forms, or both.

Developed on Kurnai country – in West Gippsland, Victoria – Catchment # 3 will go live online on 21st December, 2024.

Across a two-month window, contributors can offer their work through a digital portal accessible within the Baw Baw Arts Alliance’s website. Including some points new to our third edition, submission guidelines can be viewed through the Arts Alliance’s submissions link.

Poets are still most welcome to submit up to five (5) stand-alone tanka, or a tanka sequence made up by four (4) pieces: please give such a string an overall title.

Further to discussion at Haiku Down Under 2024, mentorship has been provided to poets with less experience in the tanka form across the first two editions of Catchment, with every intention of having this continue.

Unfortunately, we are not in a position to accept submissions of haiku.
Across both editions so far, poets have offered pieces of haibun, within the Longer Poetry category. Alas, we are sorry to say that we aren’t able to publish work in this form. Because our team is small, we cannot process submissions received from overseas either. Nor do we have the resources available to work with poetry in languages other than English.

Yet we relish the prospect of receiving a wide range of high-quality poems of place from throughout Australia, in Japanese-derived tanka and in lengthier Western free-verse forms!

Rodney Williams
Editor
Catchment – Poetry of Place