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Catchment – Poetry of Place will remain open for contributions between 21 March and 21 May, towards release of the journal’s 6th issue online on 21 June, 2026. Guidelines and our submission portal can both be accessed through the following link:
https://www.bawbawartsalliance.org.au/bcms/catchment/

As before, Australian poets working in Japanese-based forms can offer: either up to 5 tanka of a stand-alone nature; or a sequence of pieces, no larger than 4 tanka in total.
Contributors may submit up to 3 poems in free verse also/ instead, each as long as 30 lines, likewise showing a sense of location.
A biographical statement (no more than 50 words) should be submitted for each issue as well, please.

Discussions of Tanka on offer

In the meantime, 2026 will continue to bring you essays on poems of place, released each month under Catchment News & Views, accessible on the journal’s home page.

To coincide with the opening of our upcoming submission period, on 21 March I will be posting an evaluation of mine about portrayals of the marshland bird snipe in both haiku and tanka.

AHS members may likewise be interested in listening to a half-hour interview with me about tanka – broadcast recently on 3CR Community Radio (855 AM) – as presented by Di Cousens, a fellow member of the Fringe Myrtles Haiku Group in Melbourne:
https://www.3cr.org.au/spoken-word/episode/discovering-tanka

On 21 April, readers can also look forward to a new piece by our co-editor Jo McInerney, who will discuss interactive sequencing created by tanka poets working in collaboration.

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

Submissions closing 21st May & Public reading 19th May

With its first edition (from December last year) well received, Catchment – Poetry of Place will release a second issue on 21 June 2024. Again, it will publish both tanka and longer free-verse poems, showing a sense of location. Since the submission period is set to close soon — on 21 May — poets resident in Australia are encouraged to make contributions, using the following link:
https://www.bawbawartsalliance.org.au/catchment2/on-line-submissions/

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The submission period for the second edition of Catchment – Poetry of Place will span from 21 March till 21 May 2024.
 
Poets resident in Australia are again most welcome to submit work showing a sense of location, either in tanka or longer forms, or both.

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The Baw Baw Arts Alliance – in West Gippsland, Victoria – is proud to announce the online release of the first edition of Catchment – Poetry of Place, accessible through this link:
https://bawbawartsalliance.org.au/Catchment

Readers will find tanka from just under two dozen Australian poets, as well as a range of longer pieces. Submissions have come from all over Australia, with a sense of place also showing through in work inspired by international locations. Catchment proudly presents poetry from Japanese and Western cultural traditions in parallel, while likewise offering work by emerging writers, alongside contributions from established poets.

Rodney Williams
Editor

Catchment – Poetry of Place offers a new opportunity for poets resident in Australia, both in tanka and longer verse forms. Catchment is a literary journal within the website for the Baw Baw Arts Alliance, based in West Gippsland, Victoria.

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Announcing: Catchment – Poetry of Place: literary journal

Catchment – Poetry of Place offers a new opportunity for poets resident in Australia, both in tanka and longer verse forms. Catchment is a literary journal within the website for the Bawbaw Arts Alliance, based in West Gippsland, Victoria.

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