The painter has chosen Andrew’s poem “Beachcombing” to accompany his painting “Wintertime, Bathurst Lighthouse in the distance”..

Concerning rottnest island, the publisher states: “Just 19 km off the coast of Fremantle in Western Australia, Rottnest Island – fondly known as ‘Rotto’ – is visited by over half a million people each year. Award-winning artist Brian Simmonds brings one of Australia’s iconic islands to life with his oils and mixed media colour paintings and sketches. Simmonds’ beautiful paintings and illustrations accompany uniquely local poetry and prose from well-known Australian writers such as Tim Winton and Craig Silvey.”.

rottnest island also includes poems by two fine Western Australian poets, Hal Colebatch and Nicholas Hasluck.

One of Andrew’s poems, “Reading at Lunchtime”, is represented in current issue of Meanjin (Volume 72, Number 3, 2013). Details about this issue of Meanjin can be found here: http://meanjin.com.au/editions.

Andrew’s Meanjin poem is reproduced below:

Reading at Lunchtime

 

A drop I squeezed

from a lemon slice

 

missed the plate

of battered fish

 

and hit the book

of Chinese poems—

 

fell, to my distress,

on a stanza by

 

an unknown poet

Confucius included

 

in The Book of Songs

he compiled

 

500 years before

the first coming of

 

the Man of Sorrows.

Such a bitter drop—

 

on the clean paper

it left a stain like a tear.

 

          © Andrew Lansdown

Andrew’s poem, “Temple Ladle”, a choka written after visiting Hozen Temple in Osaka, Japan, has been published in the latest issue (Volume 3, Issue 1) of the Australian Poetry Journal.

Andrew’s poem “Afterphase” has been included in the Inkerman & Blunt anthology Australian Love Poems 2013, edited by Mark Tredinnick.

Publisher Donna Ward states in the front of the book that 632 people submitted 1,501 poems for the anthology, of which 200 poems by 173 poets were chosen.

Australian Love Poems 2013 can be purchased from bookshops and from Inkerman & Blunt Publishers – http://inkermanandblunt.com/home/

Andrew’s poem “Black Chook” has been published in Oxford English 2: Curriculum Knowledge and Skills. This book by educationalist Paul Grover, is the first in a blended print and digital series written for the Australian Curriculum: English. It is published by Oxford University Press (South Melbourne, 2013). “Black Chook” is republished from Andrew’s collection of children’s poetry, Allsorts: poetry tricks and treats.

Andrew’s poem “In Her Haste” has been published in Oxford English 1: Curriculum Knowledge and Skills. This book by educationalist Paul Grover, is the first in a blended print and digital series written for the Australian Curriculum: English. It is published by Oxford University Press (South Melbourne, 2013). “In Her Haste” is republished from Andrew’s books, The Grasshopper Heart (1991) and Gestures of Love (2013)

Westerly magazine has published Andrew’s poem, “Travelling North”, in its June 2013 issue. The poem is reproduced below. (Details of the June 2013 issue of Westerly can be found here: http://westerlymag.com.au/issue/58-1/.)

Travelling North

 

The Canada geese go over,

fly over in a skein,

high up and (I imagine)

honking beyond hearing.

 

And I suddenly wonder,

What am I doing here

in America travelling north

deeper into Wisconsin

 

where the first snows

have already fallen,

travelling north when

even the geese know

 

the killing cold is coming

and south is the place to go?

 

          © Andrew Lansdown

Four of Andrew’s poems were published in the July-August 2013 issue of Quadrant. One of the poems, “Five Flowers”, consists of five tanka – (1) “Composition”, (2) “Plenty”, (3) “Celebration”, (4) “Wheel” and (5) “Drive”. Another of the poems, “The Darkness Tanka”, consists of three tanka – (1) “This Morning”, (2) “At Nightfall” and (3) “Tonight”. The other two poems are “Artistic Licence” (a choka) and “Correspondence” (a tanka). All these poems will appear in Andrew’s new book, Inadvertent Things: poems in traditional Japanese forms, which will be released by Walleah Press later this year.

Singer-songwriter Joe Dolce has put Andrew’s poem “Samurai” to music. Joe has posted a demo of the song on Soundcloud, here http://soundcloud.com/joe-dolce/samurai.

Joe states that it is “still only the original demo but it will have to do until I get back in a real studio again.”

The photograph of Andrew (above) is one that Joe collaged to go with “Samurai” for Soundcloud.