On this exciting day, in opening our submissions portal to new contributions for our seventh issue, we offer an essay which differs significantly from previous appraisals released here each month in Catchment Views. Rather than having been written recently, this…

With our submission portal opening in a week’s time, the team set to prepare Catchment’s seventh edition will welcome new poems of place between 21 September & 21 November 2026. As ever, Australian writers will be free to offer longer…

The submission period for the seventh issue of Catchment – Poetry of Place will open up in a fortnight’s time, on 21 September 2026. Poets taking the opportunity to look in advance will find changes in the Submission Guidelines. With…

Readers will surely agree that some of the most emotive poems & songs can be those which register feelings of sorrow & loss in response to a loved one’s departure. Regular visitors to this site might already have noted that…

This week has seen the culmination of a major project here in the Catchment website. Receiving very positive feedback, Tanka Tones has involved fortnightly postings of a total of 9 sets of recorded readings of poems in this short Japanese-based…