The latest issue of Studio (# 152) contains a poem and a tribute by Andrew.
The poem, “Vikings”, is dedicated to the late Western Australian poet, novelist and social commentator, Hal G.P. Colebatch.
The tribute is also for Hal, and was delivered by Andrew at the Memorial Service held for him on 23 September 2019.
The text of the “Tribute for Hal Colebatch” can be read on this website here.
Andrew’s poem “Zuiho-in Zen Temple, Kyoto” has been published in the latest issue (# 33, 2021) of Rabbit: a journal for nonfiction poetry.
The poem is dedicated to the memory of Sorin Otomo, a warlord who founded the Zen temple in Kyoto in the sixteenth century AD and later converted to Christianity.
In recognition of Sorin’s Christian faith, one of the dry landscape gardens at the temple has seven stones positioned to from the shape of a cross.