Quadrant magazine has published five of Andrew’s poems in its May 2011 issue. One of the five is a gunsaku, “Seven Birds”, consisting of seven tanka. The first of the seven bird tanka is written in slant (half) rhyme and reads:
Bird and Bull
The dotterel,
stalking, sniping—so little
by the muzzle
and muddy hoof of the bull
drinking at the dam’s puddle.
© Andrew Lansdown
Read the remaining six tanka in “Seven Birds” on the Quadrant website: http://www.quadrant.org.au/magazine/issue/2011/5/seven-birds
Andrew’s other poems can also be read on the Quadrant website:
“In Dependence” -
http://www.quadrant.org.au/magazine/issue/2011/5/in-dependence
“Wheatbelt Willy-Willy” and “The Gravity of the Slight” -
http://www.quadrant.org.au/magazine/issue/2011/5/two-poems
“Spores” -
http://www.quadrant.org.au/magazine/issue/2011/5/seven-birds