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Andrew Lansdown's latest poetry collection, Abundance, contains poems from eleven of his earlier collections and poems that are previously uncollected. These poems gain power from the poet's mastery of poetic form and technique. They range widely in theme, tone, style, and subject--from an aboriginal man playing the digeridoo in prison to a widow addressing a prophet in Phoenicia, from kangaroos crossing a firebreak to a man asleep in a librar...

Andrew Lansdown's latest poetry collection, Abundance, contains poems from eleven of his earlier collections and poems that are previously uncollected. These poems gain power from the poet's mastery of poetic form and technique. They range widely in theme, tone, style, and subject--from an aboriginal man playing the digeridoo in prison to a widow addressing a prophet in Phoenicia, from kangaroos crossing a firebreak to a man asleep in a librar...

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Few poets have explored the weight and wonder of fatherhood like Andrew Lansdown. Over the years he has established a high reputation for his subtle, insightful poems about his wife and children. Acclaimed poet and critic Geoff Page has observed that 'Lansdown has a very sincere and direct way of handling poems about his immediate family which subtly suggests great tenderness without becoming sentimental.' Now, for the first time, Andrew...

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Written in a variety of free and traditional forms--including haiku, tanka, choka, and villanelle--this exciting collection contains the work of two award-winning Western Australian poets, Andrew Lansdown and Kevin Gillam. Dealing with a variety of subjects relating to nature, family, and the human condition, this compilation offers insight into the state of poetry in contemporary Western Australia.

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When Lansdown mentioned 'humour' and 'therapy' in the question "Could Humour enhance the Therapeutic relationship?" he was amazed by the polar and dogmatic reactions of his test subjects. As the late Sir Winston Churchill once said "a joke is a very serious thing".

Kingfishers and zebra finches, triggerplants and tiger snakes, sandcrabs and cabbage moths, wattle pods and waterlilies - all find a place in this collection of poems celebrating Australia's native and exotic flora and fauna. Birds in Mind brings together over 200 poems by own of Australia's finest nature poets, poems as varied in style and tone as they are in subject and theme, poems that will turn readers into nature and poetry lovers if the...