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The Muff Bees single work   poetry   "My daughter called them "muff bees","
Issue Details: First known date: 1991... 1991 The Muff Bees
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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Canberra Times 16 February 1991 Z588721 1991 newspaper issue 1991 pg. B6
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon OzMuze vol. 1 no. 12 September 1991 Z642926 1991 periodical issue 1991 pg. 5
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    y separately published work icon Studio : A Journal of Christians Writing no. 46 Autumn 1992 Z609647 1992 periodical issue 1992 pg. 10
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Between Glances Andrew Lansdown , Port Melbourne : Heinemann Australia , 1993 Z436747 1993 selected work poetry

    '“Lansdown uses words with masterly precision to paint things as we have not previously seen them, but as we may be tempted to see them henceforth.”

    Rod Moran, Fremantle Arts Review


    “At his best Lansdown is able to suggest very deftly and concisely the so-called ‘thisness’ of things …”

    Geoff Page, Canberra Times


    “No Australian poet is so often moved to celebrate as Andrew Lansdown is. His work brims with tenderness, wonder and joy, all qualities which are in short supply in the modern world of which he is an acute observer. Beneath his gaze common objects and every-day encounters glow with spiritual significance. Lansdown has few superiors as a technician: his use of sound in these poems is as striking as is their variety of form. This, his sixth and strongest collection, will enhance his growing reputation.” – Les Murray' (Publication summary)

         Port Melbourne : Heinemann Australia , 1993     pg. 8
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    y separately published work icon Birds in Mind : Australian Nature Poems Andrew Lansdown , Capalaba : Wombat Books , 2009 Z1776134 2009 selected work poetry Capalaba : Wombat Books , 2009 pg. 218
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Australian Poetry Since 1788 Geoffrey Lehmann (editor), Robert Gray (editor), Sydney : University of New South Wales Press , 2011 Z1803846 2011 anthology poetry (taught in 1 units) 'A good poem is one that the world can’t forget or is delighted to rediscover. This landmark anthology of Australian poetry, edited by two of Australia’s foremost poets, Geoffrey Lehmann and Robert Gray, contains such poems. It is the first of its kind for Australia and promises to become a classic. Included here are Australia’s major poets, and lesser-known but equally affecting ones, and all manifestations of Australian poetry since 1788, from concrete poems to prose poems, from the cerebral to the naïve, from the humorous to the confessional, and from formal to free verse. Translations of some striking Aboriginal song poems are one of the high points. Containing over 1000 poems from 170 Australian poets, as well as short critical biographies, this careful reevaluation of Australian poetry makes this a superb book that can be read and enjoyed over a lifetime.' (From the publisher's website.) Sydney : University of New South Wales Press , 2011 pg. 948
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