Congratulations to poet Madhuri Pillai for her shortlisting in the Touchstone Awards for 2025.
eventide—
a murmur of pigeons
folds the night
— Madhuri Pillai, Echidna Tracks, Issue 15, Winter/Spring 2025.
Haiku
Congratulations to poet Madhuri Pillai for her shortlisting in the Touchstone Awards for 2025.
eventide—
a murmur of pigeons
folds the night
— Madhuri Pillai, Echidna Tracks, Issue 15, Winter/Spring 2025.
moonlit night
the curlew
breaks curfew
Gregory Piko
the sun fluttering
last feathers of light
yellow thornbills
Mira Walker
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Echidna Tracks will now become an international publication, and we welcome submissions from haiku poets worldwide. We hope to publish a diversity of haiku and senryu.
Gavin Austin and Marilyn Humbert will be the haiku editors for this issue.
We invite your best and previously unpublished haiku/senryu on any topic.
Echidna Tracks nominates haiku for the Touchstone Awards and the annual Red Moon Press anthology, so be sure to send us your best work.
Submissions for Issue 17 will be open during April 2026. Please carefully read the guidelines on the Submissions page, as these have changed. Submissions will be received only via the submissions form.
We plan to commence publication of Issue 17 on 6 July 2026.
rose garden . . .
a trace of pink
in the breeze
Thomas Landgraf
scented stars the moonlight in jasmine vines
Gavin Austin
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loping down the road
holding my hat
Robyn Braithwaite
a layer of dust on the old gelding’s bridle sun-bleached pastures
Jennifer Sutherland
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the muddy wave
of a red claw
Glenys Ferguson
warm front
the pelican smell
of wet concrete
Nathan Sidney
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