Category: Lang, Kristen

Seasonal Poets, Hobart — 10th Anniversary Reading, Sept 21st

It’s the 10th Anniversary of Seasonal Poets this Spring. 

Sarah Day will mark the occasion with a celebratory reflection on this decade of poetry in the heart of Hobart. 

Anne M Carson completed her PhD (responding to George Sand’s life & work) which won the Outstanding Dissertation Prize (2024). She’s developed this accessible and intriguing poetry into her 5th collection, George Sand (and Me): a poetic biography.

Kristen Lang is a writer and wildlife surveyor living in north-west Tasmania. Her precisely-crafted words immerse us in the aliveness of the natural world. You’ll never feel the same way about rocks after hearing Kristen’s poems.

David Mason, a former Poet Laureate of Colorado, migrated to Tasmania in 2018. He writes essays, libretti, as well as insightful poetry. He’ll be reading from his latest exciting collection, Cold Fire.

Seasonal Poets 10th Anniversary Reading

Monday September 21 5:30 to 7:30

Tickets are $12.00 and include, to celebrate, a glass of sparkling beverage!

Tickets are available through Fullers Bookshop at www.trybooking.com/au/event/1642743 or at the door.

Ed Southorn’s new collection ‘SEA LAKE MOUNTAIN’

Ed Southorn has published a new collection, available from Walleah Press for $20 (includes postage within Australia).

Ed Southorn’s second poetry collection examines memory, landscape, history and myth, weighing the impacts of property development, population pressure and climate change in the Bega Valley on the far south coast of New South Wales. The second half of the collection explores storied spaces and places in Europe, America and the Australian outback.

Artist David Campbell provided the cover for the book, while poets Liam Ferney and Kristen Lang contributed blurbs:

Sea Lake Mountain is steeped in the littoral, the pull and push of tides in the Bega Valley. ‘The wave is every living thing/gone before the Moon/can intervene.’ Even the Monaro plains are an ‘ocean [of] nothing but land’. Southorn’s keen eye and sharp descriptive flair let the poems wash in the numinous without neglecting to acknowledge the ‘library of toppled shelves’ the settler gaze must sort through. For ‘I am water and my blood salt’.

LIAM FERNEY

These poems diversify our understandings, breaking the linearity of our human stories in favour of an ecology of thought as fluid as the world entwining it. The poems follow yearning, conflict, sadness, love, but always through immersion. Ed Southorn finds his moment, the poems tell us, ‘in a confluence of synchronicities’. Meeting these moments, we leave with a larger world inside us.

KRISTEN LANG

cover 'SEA LAKE MOUNTAIN' by Ed Southorn
                                   Ed Southorn’s poetry collection ‘SEA LAKE MOUNTAIN’

Available for $20, posted within Australia, from Walleah Press