Edition 6 of Catchment – Poetry of Place is live online

Catchment 6 is now online. Work from over 80 contributors, including more than 40 poets who have had tanka selected, either as stand-alone pieces or as tanka strings. Also, a discussion of the work of Kala Ramesh.

Read more: Edition 6 of Catchment – Poetry of Place is live online

Poetry of Place is live online, accessible through this link: https://www.bawbawartsalliance.org.au/bcms/latest-edition-6/

Readers will find work from over 80 contributors, including more than 40 poets who have had tanka selected, either as stand-alone pieces or as tanka strings.

Various approaches to writing poems about senses of place have been explored in longer verse too: while many pieces focus upon physical locations, others consider place in different terms, perhaps on human levels. 

The team producing this sixth issue gives its deepest thanks to both the Australian Haiku Society and its members, for ongoing support.

Coinciding with the release of Edition 6 is a new discussion of the work of Kala Ramesh by tanka co-editor Jo McInerney, as found through this link, under Catchment News & Views, on the journal’s homepage: https://www.bawbawartsalliance.org.au/bcms/catchment-news/with-catchment-6-released-a-new-approach-with-tanka

Showing connections to the work of the Indian poet Kabir, this essay considers ‘tanka twins’ or tanka-doha, as pairs of associated pieces by the one poet (rather than as a dialogue between two writers).

From its seventh issue onwards, Catchment will offer a new opportunity to submit tanka in this exciting way!

Rodney Williams
Editor
Catchment – Poetry of Place
Baw Baw Arts Alliance
Gunaikurnai Country
West Gippsland, Victoria