Four poems in Quadrant

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.