Far From Home Poems of Faith, Grief and Gladness

Publisher Description

This is a substantial collection of the best faith-based poetry of Andrew Lansdown. It abounds with warmth, insight, quirkiness and compassion. These poems explore and express loss, grief, longing, regret, hope and happiness. They celebrate family, friendship, freedom and courage and affirm the astonishing value of human life. They are informed by an integrity that arises from the poet's Christian faith. Readers do not need to share his faith in order to appreciate his poems. These poems are of the human condition, and they speak to every human heart. Even if you have never read his essays, stories or novels, try his outstanding poetry. Little sisters pretending their father is a pelican; a traveller weeping uncomforted in a cafe in Sydney; an aboriginal man playing a didgeridoo in prison; a son praying for his mother in her pain; a random spray from a damaged hose watering a wild daisy; a rainbow enfolding the fuselage of an aeroplane: these are a few of the many surprising, moving things depicted in this collection of poems.