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Australian Poetry and Tanka
4th posting in Tanka Tones – inside a week left to submit to Catchment 6, by 21 May
Australian poets wishing to contribute to our sixth issue of Catchment have only until 21 May to offer new work showing a sense of location, in either tanka or free verse. If you are not acquainted with our approach, please…
With submissions due 21 May, an exchange between poets: ties in tanka too
Halfway through submissions for Catchment 6, our tanka co-editor Jo McInerney looks at a responsive interchange between two leading Australian tanka poets, Amelia Fielden & Kathy Kituai. In future, we may offer pairs of our own contributors the same chance.…
Opening up submissions for Catchment 6 now: sharing new angles on tanka as well
Longer poems & tanka can be submitted from today until 21 May for our 6th issue! You will also be able to click on Tanka Tones, from 28 March, for recorded readings. As our editor, Rodney Williams was interviewed recently…
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:…