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Australian Poetry and Tanka
Poetry exploring connections with parents
After revisiting her mother in Britain, Helen Jarvis reflects on voice & change, back in Melbourne. As a co-editor for Catchment, Peter Roberts also finds links between this poet’s own sense of craft & her father’s work as a compositor…
Ways of moving through a series of tanka set in Japan
Our tanka co-editor Jo McInerney explores how linkage is crafted by a leading Australian poet in Japanese verse-forms – Hazel Hall – in a tanka sequence where nuance & coherence are developed through shifts in focus across modes of movement:…
After recently releasing Catchment 5, our last posting in Voices
With our fifth issue going live online a week back, now Catchment wishes all supporters a Happy New Year, bringing 2025 to a close with a last stream of readings of poems from our first 4 editions: please click on Voices!…
Alongside Edition 5 of Catchment going live, a poet with winning ways
Coinciding with today’s release of this journal’s fifth issue, we also look at Kevin Gilliam’s mastery of verse-form; his sense of musicality in writing poetry of place. Twice short-listed in the prestigious Australian Book Review Poetry Prize (back in 2005…
With Catchment 5 one week away, click on Voices for new readings of poems of place!
Our 5th edition will go live online in a week’s time! Across this same period, another major initiative is also approaching completion, having spanned the later stages of 2025. You’ll find that Stream 7 of Catchment Voices has just become available!…