HMP: Andrew Lansdown, author

Andrew Lansdown, Hovea Music Press author

Andrew's poems and short stories appear regularly in literary journals and newspapers throughout Australia. He is the author of twelve books, including Abiding Things: poems, stories, essays (Studio). His sixth collection of poetry, Between Glances (William Heinemann Australia), won the Adelaide Festival's prestigious John Bray National Poetry Award in 1994.

His fantasy novel, With My Knife (released in Australia by Omnibus Books and in the USA by Scholastic), was shortlisted for the 1994 National Children's Book Award and the 1994 Western Australian Young Readers' Award. The sequel, Dragonfox, was published by Scholastic Australia in early 1997.

The poems in The Weight of the Baby were written for his son Jesse, the fourth of five children he and his wife, Susan, have brought with gladness into the world.

Information about The Weight of the Baby and

...where eucalypts green-tip the sky (various authors)

Samples by Andrew Lansdown from ...where eucalypts green-tip the sky:

Marri with Nuts and Breaking Out (musical settings by Margaret Dylan Jones)

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