KIM NIELSEN-CREELEY | Extraction


'Extraction' | ISBN 978 0 645797 725 | 114 pgs | August 2024


Born in Queenstown, a mining town in lutruwita/Tasmania, Kim Nielsen-Creeley’s poems have a keen sense of place, responding to landscape and history. Over generations her forebears have lived and worked in the bush, in the mountains and on the coast of this island.

Kim has published articles in art journals. She has co-authored an online and hardcopy annual magazine and a comprehensive on-line newsletter in the independent school sector. She has an honours degree in fine art, and her practice continues, drawing on paper, recently incorporating poetry beneath the surface. This is her first full collection of poetry.




A deep connection to Tasmania’s wild, historic and familial places powers through Extraction as Kim Nielsen-Creeley’s words weave and dance through the pages. This is perceptive poetry, at times vulnerable and always well observed, beautifully written with humility, love and respect. Extraction that exposes, extraction that haunts and reflects, a collection that invites us to hold onto sunsets and listen to life’s music.

Helga Jermy