Five poems in Quadrant

Quadrant magazine has published five of Andrew’s poems in its May 2011 issue. One of the five is a gunsaku, “Seven Birds”, consisting of seven tanka. The first of the seven bird tanka is written in slant (half) rhyme and reads:

Bird and Bull

 

The dotterel,

stalking, sniping—so little

by the muzzle

and muddy hoof of the bull

drinking at the dam’s puddle.

 

          © Andrew Lansdown

Read the remaining six tanka in “Seven Birds” on the Quadrant website: http://www.quadrant.org.au/magazine/issue/2011/5/seven-birds

Andrew’s other poems can also be read on the Quadrant website: 

“In Dependence” –

http://www.quadrant.org.au/magazine/issue/2011/5/in-dependence

“Wheatbelt Willy-Willy” and “The Gravity of the Slight” –

http://www.quadrant.org.au/magazine/issue/2011/5/two-poems

“Spores” –

http://www.quadrant.org.au/magazine/issue/2011/5/seven-birds