Kristen Lang Kristen Lang i(A4330 works by) (a.k.a. Kirsten Lang)
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Kristen Lang has completed a PhD in poetry with Deakin University. She has lived in north-west Tasmania.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2021 longlisted Peter Porter Poetry Prize for framing the mirror
2019 shortlisted Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript for The Unspoken Economy
2018 runner up Tom Collins Poetry Prize for 'Coming of Age'.

Awards for Works

Below the Summit i "The pandani graze where they've scattered, mid-step", 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 36 2022; (p. 111-113)
2022 winner Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Prize
Carving the Golem 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 34 2022;
2021 highly commended Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Prize
y separately published work icon Earth Dwellers Artarmon : Giramondo Publishing , 2021 20874283 2021 selected work poetry

'The Anthropocene – what can poetry do in this epoch in the Earth’s history defined by human impact? With its immersion in powerful wilderness landscapes, Earth Dwellers challenges our human-centredness by embracing perspectives which set the intimate delicacy of life forms against time scales that go back millions of years. These are deep-breath poems, full of touch and awareness, consolidated by their commitment to the ecologies that envelop us. Asked where we come from, the poems speak not of nations or tribes but of mosses, mountains, oceans, birds. And asked where we are going, the poems refer not to rockets or recessions, but to the biome, a place where consumption is a relationship and not a right. This is ecopoetry – where the natural world is primary, and humans have to find their place in it, rather than the other way around.' (Publication summary)

2022 shortlisted Tasmania Book Prizes Tasmanian Literary Awards Tim Thorne Prize for Poetry
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