KRISTEN LANG



Kristen's poetry collection SkinNotes was published in June 2017.

Kristen Lang cover ‘Lyric poetry is the lightly orchestrated voice of true feeling. Its shape and its language persuade us, as readers, that soul or spirit has become fully incorporate. In Kristen Lang’s own words, again and again “we are all / this embrace”: all in her gathered moment of love or of loss. She has written of our inevitable transience, “the angels are not ourselves”, but these sure-footed poems locate personal apprehension in a physically delicate, common world. Readers will surely delight in the subtle, varied command of SkinNotes.’
Chris Wallace-Crabbe

‘Hearing these poems sing off the page is like listening to Pablo Casals play cello. Their music goes deep: resonating chest, bone, heart, nerve and brain. Afterwards you feel as if you’ve been tenderly bathed. Renewed, soothed, enlivened – freshly alert to the tender nuance and beauty of the world.’
Gina Mercer

(AUDIO) POETRY SELECTION FROM SkinNotes

'Breathing'

'Goodbye is too small a word'

'Hollow'

'Lake'

'Luthier'

'Not returning'

'The heart'

'The waking'

'To say I believe in you'



MORE POETRY BY KRISTEN LANG

storm moth
Painting 1810



A READING | SEASONAL POETS, WINTER 2017

Kristen Lang, Pete Hay, Louise Oxley


A REVIEW OF KRISTEN LANG'S let me show you a ripple

OTTAWAY, Esther ('Famous Reporter # 39', Jun 2009)


EXTERNAL LINKS


Reviews of Kristen's Lang's SkinNotes

CLIFTON, Alison ('StylusLit')
BROZEK-CORDIER, Daniela ('Plumwood Mountain')
DUWELL, Martin ('Australian Poetry Review')
PREE, Nathanael ('Cordite')


REVIEWS OF KRISTEN LANG'S The Weight of Light (Five Islands Press)

CRESSWELL, Mary (Plumwood Mountain)
WALKER, Amelia ('TEXT', Vol 22 No 1 April 2018)


INTRODUCTION | 'PLUMWOOD MOUNTAIN', 'The Transformative Now' (Vol 10, No 1, 2023)

KRISTEN LANG Editorial
For this issue, editor Kristen Lang asked what it might mean (bodily, emotionally, collectively) for a consumer-based, human-centric society to embrace Earth-centric thought and behaviour.