Poems

At its best, poetry has a power to speak from heart to heart. I was reminded of this a while ago in an email from a friend, Ronald Nugent. Ron, a Christian pastor who has struggled with [...]

Sehnsucht is a German word that means “deep longing”. It describes a fleeting state experienced by everyone from time to time—a profound yearning as real as it is intangible, a mysterious longing [...]

Five poems by Andrew Lansdown Troubled by the conviction that the children they have aborted are consciously suffering in a Buddhist purgatory, many Japanese women turn to the Buddhist deity, [...]

In this new book by award-winning poet Andrew Lansdown, limericks and haiku jostle with rhymed verse and free verse to bring to life crazy critters, odd bods, fantasy worlds and the natural [...]

Les Murray, one of the best English-speaking poets in the world, said recently that “Probably the only greater Australian Christian poet [than James McAuley] is Andrew Lansdown”. This statement, [...]

1 What is Crucial   To be dignified when facing death is mainly a matter of pride. What matters most is to trust the One who was crucified.     2 What is Certain   When I face [...]

Finally, one arrives at the place of the skull because there is nowhere else to go. And there before the face of bone one pauses in despair.   The culmination of all evil is displayed before [...]

When it dived, the dabchick, I ran towards the swamp, wanting to get closer to see better before the bird surfaced and saw me— I sprinted towards the swamp, my eyes on the black hole in the [...]

  Pain   Yesterday, when I woke early with that pain and got up and got no relief, I thought of death, my death. This is it, I thought.   And I felt grief for my family and [...]

Five Islands Press has published a new collection of poetry by Andrew Lansdown. Titled Fontanelle, the book is Andrew’s first major collection in ten years. His last collection, Between Glances, [...]