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Andrew’s poetry collection, Far from Home, can be purchased from Amazon.com (USA). (For American readers, postage is cheaper through Amazon. Australian readers can save on postage by purchasing the book through this website.)

The Amazon website contains a positive review of Far from Home, which can be read here:

http://www.amazon.com/Far-Home-Poems-Faith-Gladness/dp/192163314X/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1458363584&sr=1-4&keywords=andrew+lansdown

And also here:

http://andrewlansdown.com/poetry/poetry-collections/far-from-home/

Andrew will read at the WA launch of the Inkerman & Blunt anthology, Prayers of a Secular World.

The Mayor of Fremantle, Brad Pettitt, will launch the book on behalf of the publishers on Saturday, 24th October, at 4.00 pm, in the Back room of the Bar Orient Hotel, 39 High St Fremantle.

Andrew is represented in the anthology with the poem, “Forgetting”, and this is the poem he will read at the launch.

Everyone is welcome!

On 31st August Andrew addressed the Retired Teachers’ Association. He spoke about his writing generally and read from his children’s poetry collection, Allsorts.

In September he co-judged the Spoken Worship Brisbane Poetry Competition, the winners of which were announced at a ceremony on 10th October at the Anglican Cathedral, Brisbane.

Andrew has been invited to read at the Perth Poetry Club on Saturday 20th June at 2.00 pm.

Read details about his scheduled reading here: http://www.perthpoetryclub.com/saturday-20th-june-andrew-lansdown

The Perth Poetry Club meets at the Moon Café at 323 Williams Street, Northbridge, from 2.00 to 4.00 every Saturday afternoon.

View the Perth Poetry Club’s website here: http://www.perthpoetryclub.com/

Here is Andrew’s speech launching Shane McCauley’s book, Trickster, on Saturday afternoon, 6th June 2015:

Launching Speech: Shane McCauley’s Trickster

I am deeply honoured to have been invited by Shane to launch his latest collection of poetry, Trickster.

I want to begin my launching speech with a few facts about Shane McCauley, the poet.

• Shane began writing poetry in 1971.
• His first poem was published in Westerly magazine in 1974.
• Since then, Shane has had more than a thousand poems, stories, articles and reviews published in journals and anthologies in Australia and overseas.
• He has won many major literary awards, including the Tom Collins Poetry Prize, the Poetry Australia Bicentennial Poetry Award, the Max Harris Poetry Award, the Poetry d’Amour Prize and the Glen Phillips Poetry Prize.
• He has had eight books of poetry published, including The Drunken Elk by Sunline Press in 2010, Ghost Catcher by Studio Press in 2012, and now Trickster by Walleah Press in 2015.

This brief overview shows that Shane is a poetry stalwart. In the 1970s, 80s and 90s many people aspired to be poets, published a few poems, even won a few awards, then disappeared from the poetry scene. But Shane has remained true to the calling of the poet for forty years!  He is a serious poet with serious achievement to match.

Shane’s eighth and latest book, Trickster, is further proof of his poetical prowess. And, of course, this book is the reason we have come together this afternoon. We have gathered to celebrate the publication of Trickster and to wish it bon voyage—good journey!—as it sets sail into the world.

Click here to read the entire speech

Andrew’s speech can also be read on the Walleah Press website here: http://walleahpress.com.au/Lansdown.html

Andrew launched Shane McCauley’s latest poetry collection, Trickster, at the Fremantle Arts Centre on Saturday, 6th June. Shane McCauley is a widely published and highly respected Western Australian poet. Trickster is his collection of poetry and is published by Walleah Press (Tasmania).

[Andrew Lansdown delivering his launching speech for Trickster]

Over 100 people attended the launching, including well-known poets Fay Zwicky, Dennis Haskell, Roland Leach, Kevin Gillam, Annamaria Weldon, Tracy Ryan and John Kinsella.

To top off a marvellous gathering, 75 copies of Trickster were sold, which is an outstanding achievement at a poetry book launching!

The three photographs posted here were taken by Andrew’s wife, Susan and are used by her kind permission.

[Above and below: Shane McCauley reading from Trickster at the launching]

Andrew will launch Shane McCauley’s new book, Trickster, on Saturday 6th June. Trickster is Shane’s eighth book of poetry and is published by Walleah Press in Tasmania.

The launch will take place in the Pavlich Room of the Fremantle Arts Centre (1 Finnerty Street, Fremantle) on Saturday 6th June at 2pm.

Come and hear Andrew. More importantly, meet Shane and hear him read from his new collection. Copies of Trickster will be on sale for $20.

Several poems from Trickster will be posted on this website in the near future. In the meantime, you can read poems from Shane’s other books here: http://andrewlansdown.com/fellow-writers/shane-mccauley/