Poets can begin to make contributions to Edition 4 of Catchment – Poetry of Place on 21 March, 2025, with this latest submission window to remain open till 21 May.
Set to go live online on 21 June, the journal’s fourth issue will again feature original work – not otherwise released – in both Western free-verse & Japanese-based tanka.
A new dimension to this project, called Catchment Views, will involve a series of evaluative essays about previously published examples of poetry of place.
So 21 March will also see the posting of an essay written in appreciation of a thought-provoking poem of dispossession called ‘Warning’ by prize-winning Indigenous writer Ali Cobby Eckermann.
Catchment is thankful to the poet herself, and to the publisher Magabala Books (from Broome, WA) for permission to reprint this fine piece, arising from the book ruby moonlight.
Working on Gunaikurnai Country ourselves (in West Gippsland, Victoria), our team is likewise grateful to the Baw Baw Arts Alliance for continuing to host this journal.
Being only a small group, we are not in a position to deal with the increased workload which might arise from accepting submissions from international sources.
Yet we continue to welcome poets from all over Australia to offer original work showing a strong sense of location, exploring settings within these shores, as well as beyond.
Having no funding, we have no budget with which to pay contributors.
In charging no subscription, Catchment prides itself – however – on providing readers with an opportunity to appreciate a variety of new writing in different verse forms, without cost.
Contributors will find specific details in Submission Guidelines, accessible on 21 March.
We look forward to receiving sets of up to three poems in longer forms and/ or five tanka, all powerful in their focus on locations: evoking beauty; registering emotions; offering reflections…
Rodney Williams
Editor