Besides Christmas, we will have other highlights in the coming month, with our fifth issue well under way, set to go live online on 21 Dec (along with another essay, here in Catchment Views). And with Stream 6 just posted…

Prize-winning Gippsland writer Jeannie Haughton joins our group of essayists here, with a deeply felt, acutely observed response to the title piece from a fine collection of poems by renowned Melbourne poet Claire Gaskin: PAPERWEIGHT – Reading a key poem…

While the submission period for Catchment 5 will remain open for another week, till 21 November, a new set of readings of poems from our first 4 issues has just been released. Like every posting for this journal, all are freely…

Thanks to the Australian Haiku Society website for supporting submissions to Catchment 5, closing soon: Another posting there, reporting on a tanka presentation for Melbourne’s Fringe Myrtles Haiku Group, has also featured Catchment:

In 2026 Jo McInerney will have a haiku echapbook One Side of the Moon posted on the Snapshot Press website by UK publisher John Barlow. It is a long-standing, highly regarded international prize. Here we release her third essay on tanka:…