Andrew Lansdown

Studio magazine has published Andrew’s tanka, “Azure”, in its latest issue (No. 116, 2010):
 

Azure
 
Surely a piece is
missing from the azure robe
of the Madonna
in some ancient mosaic
because of that fairy wren!
 
© Andrew Lansdown

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Andrew’s poem, “Sighting”, appears in the December issue of Quadrant magazine:
 

Sighting
On visiting the Bull Ranges with a traditional landowner
 
Pluck out the detecting eye,
break off the pointing finger,
shut up the exclaiming cry—
if only somehow I could!
 
But it’s too late to stifle
myself now or stop my friend,
who snatches up his rifle
and follows swiftly after
 
the wallabies I sighted,
the small [...]

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Three new poems by Andrew have just been published in the July-August issue of Quadrant magazine. One of them, posted here, is a gunsaku (haiku sequence):

About Autumn
            i
Liquidambar—
anticipating autumn
with a red leaf.
 
            ii
Liquidambar—
the evergreens envy your
changing colours.
 
            iii
Liquidambar—
educating evergreens
about autumn.
 
© Andrew Landown

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The March 2009 issue of Quadrant magazine contains 4 of Andrew’s poems, including the following choka (a traditional Japanese poetic form):
 

Western Yellow Robin 
 
When the Almighty
spoke yellow-bellied robins
into bright being
and told them to multiply,
he already knew
I would observe this robin,
this gentle-grey bird
too shy to wear its colour
on its petite breast,
this yolk-yellow-under bird
drawn from the forest
by the feather-grey [...]

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The March 2009 issue of Quadrant magazine contains 4 of Andrew’s poems, including the following tanka (a traditional Japanese poetic form):
 

Sheep
 
Only three days since
they were shorn and already
their whiteness is gone.
Still, who of us has managed
even that long in this world?
 
© Andrew Lansdown

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In October (2008) Andrew Burke asked several fellow Western Australian poets, including Andrew Lansdown, to provide a poem-with-comments for his blogsite, Hi Spirits (http://hispirits.blogspot.com/). Andrew L sent Andrew B the poem “Finishing Up”, which Andrew B (confusing, isn’t it!) posted on 22 September 2008. The poem and brief explanatory comments are posted below:
 

Finishing Up 
 
Nightfall … and [...]

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