I am very proud to be included in the latest Echidna Tracks and honoured to be included with these amazing poets and lovers of haiku
Edition Issue 16,Summer/Autumn 2026
Editor Lynette Arden on November 24, 2025
grandpa’s plum tree
in its shade his grandson
savours the sweetness
Vanessa Proctor
soft drumbeats
as the service ends
a boy’s glance upward
Jo McInerney
reading the ode—
a rising sun glitters
on his slouch hat
Colleen Keating
luminous skies . . .
the wilting wildflowers
on a soldier’s grave
Samantha Sirimanne Hyde
Australia, in the twenty-first century, is a vibrant multicultural society.
We hope to celebrate, through the haiku/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.