POETRY OF PLACE & TIME, SEA & SELF  Earl Livings is the second writer to have a poem evaluated here, while having work in Catchment. He advises he currently has a poetry manuscript with a publisher – he is also…

Melbourne poet Geraldine Burrowes has strong links here in West Gippsland. Having her publisher Rabbit Poetry aim ‘to celebrate the potential for poetry to explore… the boundaries of nonfiction’ makes her poem on John Lennon’s ghost all the more intriguing……

Australian poet and novelist Cynthia Rowe (1938 to 2025) was a significant voice in the haiku, tanka, and haibun world in Australia and overseas. Rowe was a genuine all-rounder, equally skilled across forms. She won awards throughout her writing life,…

This is the release date for Issue 4 of Catchment – Poetry of Place, to be found at Latest Edition. Readers may already have perused our earlier essays – here’s a new evaluation of topographic verse by Kris Hemensley too.…