Abiding Things: poems, stories essays
Andrew Lansdown
Studio (Albury), 1996
ISBN 0-646-28959-4
Cover illustration by Susan Lansdown
Back cover blurb
Andrew Lansdown “has what I call a courage of delicacy, and a real unconventionality which resists the busy inertia of received literary attitudes; he is not afraid of concepts such as joy, nor of the literal tears in things. He espouses, though not all the time, an aesthetic of small observations.”
— Les Murray, The Sydney Morning Herald
“Lansdown is a past master at performing one of the chief tasks of a serious poet: to lift the veil of familiarity from the world, to have us see things anew, to re-encounter what we thought we had understood, and to take another look at what we might have consigned to the margins of our consciousness.”
— Rod Moran, Fremantle Arts Review
“Andrew Lansdown has established a clear reputation as an imagist of high order in Australia.”
— Philip Salom, The West Australian
In this selection of Andrew Lansdown’s poems, stories and essays there is a tenderness, a wonder and a deep feeling for human relationships and spirituality. He writes of the darker things that move within our lives, while his observant eye rests on tiny details of nature which open the reader to a richer, wider world. Through his writing Andrew Lansdown discovers, explores and celebrates abiding things.
— Paul Grover
Abiding Things contains poems and stories for children as well as adults.
To read a children’s poem (”The Nares), from Abiding Things, click on “Sample Children’s Poems”.
To read two children’s stories (”A Cup for a Cop” & “Mr Mousey”) from Abiding Things, click on “Sample Children’s Stories”.