Thanks to all the poets who contributed haiku for EchidnaTracks Issue 17. The haiku have been selected, and the book will be published as a free PDF download from the website at the beginning of July 2026.

We received many submissions, and we are grateful for that in our first international venture. We can publish more haiku in this PDF format than was possible when posting each haiku online in our previous format. There is a strong Australian voice, now combined with a fresh and inspiring flood of haiku from poets from many other countries.

A haiku gives us a glimpse into somewhere, something, someone else. We share our insights, and in turn, they enlarge the reader’s experience. That could be a fresh insight into our own surroundings, or a glimpse of somewhere else in the world. We hope the inclusion of many new voices will give fresh inspiration to all our readers and writers.

Our index of Australian haiku is still available via the website’s categories. Each post has been thoroughly categorised. The author index on the website only relates to the haiku that have been posted there.