4th edition online and an essay on Cynthia Rowe
Readers have been enjoying the fourth issue of Catchment – Poetry of Place!
It is available via Latest Edition on the Baw Baw Arts Alliance website.
The 4th edition features poetry from 70 writers from across Australia.
Around two dozen tanka poets have work included, while this issue also publishes lengthier poems from just under 50 contributors.
Ten or so writers made submissions in both verse-forms, with a similar number of tanka strings or sequences also featured.
Our gratitude goes to AHS members who offer their work, as well as to the Australian Haiku Society for its support!
Working on Gunaikurnai country, in the West Gippsland region of Victoria, the editorial team for Catchment continues to be proud to present new work involving a variety of moods, voices and approaches, exploring place in a range of ways poetically.
Our new issue continues to give a home to poetry inspired by international locations, especially in Japan itself, while exploring many Australian locations, both urban and rural, in the outback and by the seaside.
Readers of Catchment News and Views may already have read an essay by tanka co-editor Jo McInerney on link-and-shift.
Her next evaluative piece gives an appreciation of tanka written by the late Cynthia Rowe, former President of the Australian Haiku Society. This is online now.
Rodney Williams
Editor
Australian Haiku Society 