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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 [...]

Seven hundred people participated in the 16th Annual Walk and Rally for Life on Tuesday evening, 10th June. Defying bitter cold and threats of rain, they assembled at Kings Park overlooking the [...]

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, [...]