The February 2016 issue of The Mozzie contains one of Andrew’s poems: “Jizo Stones by the Three-Storeyed Pagoda”.

 

 

Studio magazine has published six of Andrew’s poems in its latest issue–Number 136, 2015. The poems are: “Parting Petals”, “Forgetting”, “Missing”, “Water for Worship”, “Nijo Castle, Kyoto” and “Temple Stone Basin”.

This issue of Studio also contains the speech Andrew gave at the launch of Shane McCauley’s book, Trickster, on 6 June 2015. The launching speech can be read on Andrew’s website, here.

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Two of Andrew’s poems have been published in the new Brandl & Schlesinger anthology, Falling and Flying: Poems on Ageing. The editors, Susan Ogle and Judith Beveridge, chose Andrew’s poems “Meditations on Pain” and “Us2” for inclusion.

On their website (http://brandl.com.au/recent-titles/falling-and-flying), the publishers state:

Falling and Flying: Poems on Ageing – is the first collection of its kind to be published in Australia.  The editors have selected a broad range of Australian poems which explore the universal experience and effects of ageing.  Whether the poets are witnessing themselves or their parents and friends succumb to the years, they speak with great precision and insight into illness, frailty, death, loss, grief and retirement as well as the joys and the wisdom that late maturity can bring.  There is humour as well as sadness in this fine and important collection, which includes the work of some of Australia’s best loved poets, a volume to be cherished by readers of any age.

Dr Susan Ogle is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine and geriatrician at Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney and has recently completed a Masters of Medical Humanities.  Susan has been interested in medical education for many years, using literature (stories and poetry), patient and family narratives and role play.  She is co-editor of Reflection, the humanities section of the Australasian Journal on Ageing.  Her poetry has been  published in literary and medical journals.

Judith Beveridge is the author of six volumes of poetry, most recently Devadatta’s Poems and Hook and Eye.  She is the poetry editor of Meanjin and teaches poetry writing at postgraduate level at the University of Sydney.  She has won many prizes for her poetry including the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal and the Christopher Brennan Award.  Her work has been studied in schools and universities and has been translated into several languages.

Poetry | Published November 2015

ISBN: 978-1-921556-87-6 pb

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The New Zealand journal, Valley Micropress, published one of Andrew’s poem in its November/December 2015 (Vol. 18, No. 10) issue. The poem, “Forgetting-Grass” (not to be confused with Andrew’s poem of the same name published in The Weekend Australian newspaper in January 2015), was first published under the title “The Forgetting-Grass Enigma” in the January-February issue of Quadrant magazine.

The Mozzie published one of Andrew’s poems, a tanka titled “Conformity” (although the title was inexplicably missing!), in its November 2015 issue.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Andrew’s poem, “The Bamboo Dragonflies of Arashiyama”, was published in the November 2015 issue of Quadrant magazine. It can be read on the quadrant site at https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2015/11/andrew-lansdown-bamboo-dragonflies-arashiyama/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Two of Andrew’s poems were published in the October 2015 issue of Quadrant. Both poems — “Visiting Basho’s Grave” and “In the Gardens of the Imperial Palace” — are gunsaku (haiku sequences) and can be read on the Quadrant site at https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2015/10/andrew-lansdown-two-poems-5/