Andrew’s poem, “Birds of a Feather” (a 2-tanka gunsaku), was published in the June 2018 issue of The Mozzie (Vol. 26, No. 5). The first of the two tanka is reprinted below:
BIRDS OF A FEATHER
Black-faced honeyeaterDistracted briefly
by a bird hopping sideways
up a bamboo cane.
And I observe that it, too,
is struggling to keep a grip.© Andrew Lansdown
The January-February 2018 issue of Quadrant magazine contains four of Andrew’s poems: “These Astonishments”, “Dog”, “Bamboo Dragonflies from the Bamboo Forest”, “On the Fear of Foxes in Ancient Japan”. “Dog” is a haiku gunsaku, consisting of three haiku, and “On the Fear of Foxes in Ancient Japan” is a tanka gunsaku, consisting of four independent tanka linked together on the basis of a common subject.
Five of Andrew’s poems have been published in the April 2018 issue of Quadrant magazine. The poems are: “On the Composition of Haiku”, “Ukiyo-e Kawaii”, “Kyoto Maple Conceits”, “Cane”, “Miscellaneous Thoughts on Poetry”.
“Kyoto Maple Conceits”, a suite of eight tanka, was published late last year in The Crows In Town, the 2007 Newcastle Poetry Prize anthology.
“Miscellaneous Thoughts on Poetry” is another tanka suite (gunsaku), consisting of three tanka, the second of which is:
On Imagist Poetry
Precise imagery,
plausible and original,
is strangely moving:
who can define or dare dismiss
the emotion of exquisite?© Andrew Lansdown
Three of Andrew’s poems were published late last year in the Canadian journal, McMaster Journal of Theology and Ministry, Volume 18 (2016-2017).
The three poems — “The Martyred Mother”, “Sakura Tanka” and “Bravery”—can be read and/or downloaded as a pdf at https://www.mcmaster.ca/mjtm/documents/Volume18/18.MJTM.29-31-Lansdown.pdf
“The Martyred Mother” and “Sakura Tanka” are included in Andrew’s new collection, Distillations of Different Lands, scheduled for publication by Sunline Press in October 2018.
The No. 141, 2017, issue of Studio magazine contains six of Andrew’s poems: