There are two outstanding poems missing from Andrew Burke’s latest, excellent New & Selected Poems—”Little White Pills”, from his 1996 collection, Pushing at Silence. , and “Pastoral”, from his first book (1975), let’s face the music & dance.
Rejoice, the missing poems have been found! You can read them on this website, here, and transcribe them into the front of your copy of Andrew Burke’s New & Selected Poems.
Eucalypt: A Tanka Journal (Issue 30, 2021) has published one of Andrew’s tanka. Andrew has titled it “This Upwelling”, although it was published without a title in Eucalypt. It is reproduced below in the house style of the magazine, without a title, an opening capital or closing full-stop:
it gladdens me,
this unceasing upwelling
of loveliness—
there are birds in the birdbath,
grandchildren in the branches© Andrew Lansdown
The Mozzie has published one of Andrew’s poems in its April 2021 issue (Vol. 28, Issue 9)—the poem “Boat”, which was recently collected in Andrew’s latest book, Abundance: New and Selected Poems. (Read about Abundance here. Go here to purchase a copy.)
The March 2021 issue of The Mozzie contains one of Andrew’s poems—a set of three tanka titled “The Worship Tanka”. This poem is reprinted from Andrew’s latest poetry collection, Abundance: New & Selected Poems, published in the United States by Cascade Books.
Andrew’s poem “Prayer” is included in the landmark anthology, The Poet’s Quest for God: 21st Century Poems of Faith, Doubt and Wonder, edited by Fr. Oliver Brennan & Todd Swift with Kelly Davio & Cate Myddleton-Evans (London: Eyewear Publishing, 2016, 457 pages).
Although Andrew gave permission to the editors and publisher to anthologise his poem back in 2014, it was only recently that he discovered that the anthology was published in 2016.
“Prayer” is a villanelle dedicated to, and prayed on behalf of, Andrew’s late mother. It has been published in several of Andrew’s poetry collections, most recently in Abundance: New and Selected Poems, published in the United States by Cascade Books, and imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers.
Rochford Street Review has published four of Andrew’s poem in its latest issue, Issue 31, 2021:1.
The poems are: “Little Things” (a set of 8 haiku); “After the Fishermen” (a set of 2 tanka); “Times of Fox-Dread” (a suite of 4 tanka); and “Petal Poems, Kyoto” (a 3-tanka suite).
The first haiku in “Little Things” is:
A flustering moth
on the lighted windowsill
in a gecko’s mouth.
. .© Andrew Lansdown
The 4 tanka in “Times of Fox-Dread” were written after a visit to Fushimi Inari Taisha in Kyoto. The first tanka in the set is titled “Possession” and reads:
In old Japan
fear of foxes polluted
everyday life:
Oh, is that maid a vixen?
Is that sickness possession?
. .© Andrew Lansdown
You can read the poems in full on the Rochford Street Review website here.
Andrew’s poem “Vikings” was published recently in the anthology Recoil Twelve, edited by Coral Carter and published by Mulla Mulla Press for the Perth Poetry Club.
“Vikings” is a tribute poem for the late Hal GP Colebatch.
Andrew read the poem at the book launch in the Moon Café on Saturday, 27th March, 2021.
You can read “Vikings” on this website here.
The February 2021 issue of The Mozzie contains one of Andrew’s poems—a set of three tanka titled “The Stopped Bird”.
Eminent Australian poet, Judith Beveridge, has kindly given permission for some of her poems to be included on Andrew’s website. You can enjoy them here.
A new collection of Andrew’s poems has just been published in the United States by Cascade Books, an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers.
Titled Abundance: New and Selected Poems, the book contains poems from eleven of Andrew’s other books as well as some previously uncollected poems.
Read the back cover blurb and some sample poems from Abundance here.
Purchase copies of Abundance (paperback – $29.95; hardback – $49.95; post free in Australia) here.