Noosa foreshore
topknot pigeons
tangling topknots
Cynthia Rowe
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Welcome to Echidna Tracks Issue 14: Open Theme
A group of haiku will be posted each Monday morning from 6 January 2025 until Issue 14 is complete.
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ECHIDNA TRACKS ISSUE 15 WINTER/SPRING 2025
For Echidna Tracks: Issue 15 Winter/Spring 2025, we invite your best and previously unpublished haiku and senryu on any topic that stirs your imagination. Australia is a society that comprises many environments, cultures, and lifestyles. We welcome diversity in submissions. Please explore our categories for inspiration. If you choose a seasonal reference, it should be compatible with the publication’s Winter/Spring time frame.
The submission period for Issue 15 will be open during April 2025. 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.
We plan to commence publication of Issue 15 on 7 July 2025.
weekday morning—
the usual dogs barking
at their loneliness
John Low
neighbours
rumbling in the dark
bin night
Jahan Tyson
strutting around
the mall entrance
pigeons and teens
Maurice Nevile
drizzling rain on the hospital steps the girl with the teardrop tattoo
Mark Miller
the labyrinth
at the children’s hospital—
life’s twists and turns
Sheila Sondik
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a country church
alone in a field
silent prayers
Maeve Archibald
the velvet of moss
her name fills
with morning rain
Gavin Austin
return to country
Grandma’s grave
now has a headstone
Laurel Astle
memorial . . .
a hundred Bathurst blokes
die for Empire
Gerry Jacobson
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bareback . . .
the high country passes
at a slow c a n t e r
Lorin Ford
thundercloud
the black mare’s forelegs
strike the sky
Jennifer Sutherland
brumbies
earmarked for culling
sniff the wind
Keitha Keyes
white brushstrokes
on spring sky
mares’ tails in full gallop
Pip Griffin
Continue readingCall for Submissions Echidna Tracks: Issue 14 Summer/Autumn 2025
Simon Hanson and Marilyn Humbert 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 We invite your best and previously unpublished haiku/senryu on any topic that stirs your imagination.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 Summer/Autumn time frame.
Please submit your haiku/senryu on the form available on the submissions page throughout September 2024. Submissions will only be received via the submissions form. Submissions have now closed for Echidna Tracks: Issue 14 Summer/Autumn 2025.
Echidna Tracks: Issue 14 Summer/Autumn 2025 will be published on 6 January 2025.
Anyone can submit work, 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 if we cannot verify an Australian connection. See About Echidna Tracks
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