Echidna Tracks is a collection of Australian haiku up to and including Issue 16. The collection is indexed by topic and searchable by category. We have included haiku about Australia, mostly written by Australian residents, as well as some by those who have visited and written about their experiences. Australia, in the twenty-first century, is a vibrant multicultural society. We have celebrated, through the haiku and senryu collected on this website, the diversity of lifestyles, values, characters, customs, cultures, and historical experiences of the people inhabiting Australia, as well as the diversity of our landscapes, flora, and fauna.
We honour the enduring connection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to this land, culture and community.
From Echidna Tracks Issue 17, the journal has extended to include submissions from poets worldwide. Consequently, the journal’s format will change, as it is no longer possible to maintain indexing for Australian topics. The publication will be in book-only form and will be freely available from the Echidna Tracks website. This will enable us to publish more haiku than we could with the previous format.
Submissions for Issues of Echidna Tracks will be requested in April and October each year. In April and October, a form for submitting haiku will be available from the Submissions page.
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