Australian Haiku
frail crescent
held in the dewy twigs
pale light
Padmasiri Jayathilaka
sharing poetry
moonrise
through the trees
Ohnmar John
pine needle
to pine needle
spider silk
Samantha Sirimanne Hyde
prayer flags—
a sheet of paperbark flutters
in the morning breeze
Coral Carter
sacred lotus the pink of her flushed cheeks
Stella Damarjati
ancient riverbed spirituality awakens
Janet Campbell
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forest sanctuary a bellbird summons me to prayer
Jennifer Sutherland
her entrance fragrance of jasmine
Subhashini Jayatilake
flickering sunshine . . .
a sparrow glides through
the café’s door
Lynette Arden
spring morning
a fork-tailed swift
river dipping
Jo McInerney
bonsai house—
drawing the paperback
in thin strokes
Alison Rogers
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A group of haiku will be posted each Monday morning from 1 July until Issue 13 is complete. The last post of haiku will be on 30 December, and the Issue will be complete on 31 December 2024. We plan to commence publication of Issue 14 on 6 January 2025.
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For Echidna Tracks: Issue 14 Summer/Autumn 2025, we invite your best and previously unpublished haiku and senryu on any topic that stirs your imagination.
The submission period for Issue 14 will be open during September 2024. Please carefully read the guidelines on the Submissions page. Please make your submissions via the Submissions Form.
Anyone can submit work, but as this is a website for the collection of Australian haiku, we are looking for work that comes from an authentic experience of living in or visiting Australia.
Echidna Tracks Issue 12 is now available here for reading and download.
Submissions for Echidna Tracks Issue 13 close at the end of April 2024. We welcome your best haiku. Surprise us and delight us! Let us make this a brilliant Issue of Echidna Tracks!
The format of Echidna Tracks will change to a weekly post of a group of haiku instead of a daily post.
Simon Hanson and Gavin Austin will be the haiku editors for this issue. We invite your best and previously unpublished haiku/senryu on any topic that stirs your imagination. If you choose a seasonal reference, it should be compatible with the publication’s winter/spring time frame.
Please submit your haiku/senryu on the form available on the submissions page throughout April 2024. Submissions will only be received via the submissions form. Submissions have now closed for Echidna Tracks Issue 13.
Echidna Tracks Issue 13 will be published on 1 July.
Anyone can submit work relevant to Australia – but as this is a website for the collection of Australian haiku, the work we are looking for will come from an authentic experience of living in or visiting Australia. Unfortunately, we cannot consider your submission when we cannot verify an Australian connection. See About Echidna Tracks
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