Andrew Lansdown (1079 works by) (a.k.a. Andrew Trevor Lansdown )
Born: Established: 1 Nov 1954 Pingelly ;
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Andrew Lansdown graduated from Curtin and Murdoch Universities with degrees in English and Comparative Literature respectively. He has worked as a teacher, tutor, journalist, and been an Education Officer at Fremantle Prison. He runs poetry workshops.

His poems and short stories have appeared in Australian journals and collections, and his short fiction has been broadcast by the ABC and the BBC. He has been described as "one of Australia's foremost poets working in the imagist tradition".

Lansdown currently lives in the south-west of Western Australia.

Notes

  • Lansdown has also written a book against homosexual law reform, Blatant and Proud : Homosexuals on the Offensive (1984).

Awards for Works

The Red Dragon , 2006 children's fiction single work
2008 winner West Australian Young Readers' Book Award
Fontanelle : A Collection of Poems , 2004 poetry selected work
2004 shortlisted Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Poetry
A Thing or Two About Monkeys "There's no monkey in the shower,..." , Fontanelle : A Collection of Poems , Sudden Alchemy : Selected Australian Poetry , 1998 poetry single work
1996 commended Tom Collins Poetry Prize