The Mozzie published Andrew’s poem “Travelling North” in its October 2018 issue (Vol. 26, No. 9). This poem is included in Andrew’s latest book of poetry, Distillations of Different Lands, which has just been released by Sunline Press.
New Poetry Collection – Distillations of Different Lands
Sunline Press has published a new collection of Andrew’s poems titled Distillations of Different Lands.
With a striking cover designed by Western Australian artist Andrew Gilchrist, the book consists of 111 poems occupying 144 pages.
The poems are wide ranging in subject, setting, theme and form, and are arranged into four sections, the four Different Lands of the title: I. HEARTLAND; II. JAPAN; III. HOMELAND; and IV. AMERICA.
Most of the poems have been previously published in magazines, newspapers and anthologies, including in: Asahi (Japan); Australian Book Review; Australian Love Poems 2013 (Inkerman & Blunt Publishers, 2013; rpt 2014); Australian Poetry Anthology: Volume 5, 2016 (Australian Poetry Publications, 2017); Australian Poetry Journal; Axon; The Canberra Times; Falling and Flying: Poems on Ageing (Brandl & Schlesinger, 2015); Famous Reporter; McMaster Journal of Theology & Ministry; Meanjin; Prayers of a Secular World (Inkerman & Blunt Publishers, 2015); Regime; Studio; The Weekend Australian; and Westerly.
Read more about Distillations of Different Lands, along with several sample poems, on this website here.
You can buy a copy of the book ($22.95, postage included) through the BUY BOOKS page of this website.
You can also order Distillations of Different Lands from bookshops and through the publisher’s website, www.sunlinepress.com.au
2 poems in Quadrant
The September 2018 issue of Quadrant magazine contains two of Andrew’s poems: “Them Shoes” and “Meditations on Emptiness”. “Them Shoes” is a free form poem of 26 stanzas and “Meditations on Emptiness” is a gunsaku consisting of two tanka. While the tanka suite is a sombre reflection on the human condition, “Them Shoes” is a light-hearted account of the poet’s encounters with festival-goers on Bourbon Street, New Orleans. The first two stanzas of “Them Shoes” are:
Everything is bourbon and bonhomie
here in New Orleans on Bourbon Street.It’s party-time and revellers keep time
with trumpet, trombone, tuba and sax …
Both “Them Shoes” and “Meditations on Emptiness” are included in Andrew’s next book of poetry, Distillations of Different Lands, which will be released by Sunline Press later this month, September 2018.
6 poems in Studio
The No. 141, 2017, issue of Studio magazine contains six of Andrew’s poems:
- Recollections of Dread and Deliverance
- A Little Herd
- Travelling
- Winter, Wisconsin
- Variations of Sorrow
- Koi Pond Tanka