Poems in The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times has published Andrew’s poem, “Music Tanka”. The poem, which appears in the 2 March 2013 edition of the newspaper’s Panorama magazine, consists of two tanka, as follows:
Music Tanka
1. Seeing the Sound
As to the eye
the springing of the mallets
so to the ear
the bounding of the poundings
from the taut timpani skins.
2. Purity
The notes are flat
and the timing is out, yet
what pure music
they make, the little sawn lengths
of bamboo bumped by breezes.
© Andrew Lansdown
These two tanka are included in Andrew’s forthcoming book, Inadvertent Things: poems in traditional Japanese forms, scheduled for publication later this year by Walleah Press.
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