Quadrant magazine has published Andrew’s gunsaku “Black” in its March 2011 issue. You can read the four-haiku sequence on the Quadrant website at http://www.quadrant.org.au/magazine/issue/2011/3/black

Famous Reporter 42 has published three of Andrew’s haiku. Here’s the first one:

 

A dilemma—

two pretty women walking

opposite ways.

          © Andrew Lansdown

Captivated! has published Andrew’s poem “Beliefs about Ibises” in its February 2011 issue.

Meanjin has published Andrew’s poem “Wren Haiku” in its Autumn 2011 (Vol. 70, No.1) issue.

Quadrant magazine has published Andrew’s “Tanka about Pain” in its January-February 2011 issue. You can read the four-tanka sequence on the Quadrant website at http://www.quadrant.org.au/magazine/issue/2011/1/tanka-about-pain

Quadrant magazine has published four of Andrew’s poems in its December 2010 issue. One of the four is a gunsaku titled “Time to Write” and is reproduced here:

 

Time to Write

  

      i

Distracted by

the lack of distractions in

the empty house.

 

      ii

A ream of paper—

I feel intimidated

just looking at it.

 

     iii

I have waited

for weeks for the writing time

I have wasted.

            © Andrew Lansdown

 

The other three poems—”Samurai”, “Zebra Finches, Station Country” and “Suffering, Summer”—can be viewed on Quadrant Online at: https://www.quadrant.org.au/magazine/issue/2010/12 

You can read Andrew’s poem “Should I Fall and Fail to Rise” in the on-line antholgy, Western Australian Writing.

Edited by John Kinsella, this on-line anthology of Western Australian writing has been produced by the University of Western Australia Library and funded by AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway.

Westerly, the literary magazine published by the Westerly Centre, the University of Western Australia, has published Andrew’s poem, “Elijah and the Ravens”. The poem consists of three dramatic monologues, which have been taken from a longer sequence of 32 dramatic monologues on the Old Testament prophet Elijah. The complete sequence, titled “The God of the Glimpses”, has just been published in Andrew’s latest poetry collection, Far from Home. One of the three dramatic monologues published in Westerly (Vol. 55, No. 2, November 2010) is written in the form of a triolette and is reproduced below:

 

The Raven

 

The raven is a black and craven bird,

a bird by the Law unclean.

Its carrion cry on the wind is heard –

the raven, that black and craven bird.

Yet it is the one the Lord by His word

has sent for my keep and keen.

Oh, the raven’s a black and craven bird,

a bird by the Law unclean!

 

            © Andrew Lansdown

The latest issue of Island magazine (# 122) contains one of Andrew’s poems, “Disturbance”. The poem can be viewed on Island‘s website at http://islandmag.com/122/poetry.html.

Blue Dog, the journal of the Australian Poetry Centre, has just published Andrew’s poem, “Depressions” (Volume 9, Number 17):

 

Depressions

 

          i

Long ago, women …

the rock-pool rock remembers

their grass-seed grinding.

 

          ii

Grooves in the granite …

the grinders, the grinding stones,

the ground seeds are gone.

 

          iii

Strangely depressing—

these depressions in the stone

from bygone grinding.

 

© Andrew Lansdown, 2010