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Mary Cresswell Reviews The Weight of Light by Kristen Lang
2018
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— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , November 2018;
— Review of The Weight of Light 2017 selected work poetry -
Kristen Lang : SkinNotes; The Weight of Light
2018
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— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , vol. 13 no. 2018;'Kristen Lang is an unusual poet in that her first two full-length books have appeared in the same year. For an outsider it’s difficult to know what the relationship between them is: it could be that SkinNotes contains poems that are earlier than those of The Weight of Light or it might be that a large group of existing poems of varying ages was simply subdivided into two manuscripts, perhaps along generally thematic lines. Whatever the case there are powerful continuities between the books just as there are significant differences.' (Introduction)
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A Well-Made House
2018
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— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , April vol. 22 no. 1 2018;'A good ecopoem, Christopher Arigo explains, is ‘a house … founded on the tension between the cutting edge of innovation and ecological thinking’ (Arigo 2007: 3). Such poems abound in Kristin Lang’s The Weight of Light – a sensually metaphysical collection that subtly yet profoundly ekes out interrelations between humans and animals, language and nature, technology and the immaterial. In line with Gander and Kinsella’s suggestion that ecological poetry ‘might be developed rhizomatically, it might be described as a nest, a collectivity’ (Gander & Kinsella 2012: 13), Lang emphasises the thrumming yet too often overlooked interrelatedness of things via her deft weaving of motifs including moons and mountains, muscle and shadow, silence and breath. This is a collection that demands multiple readings – and rewards them – opening and offering new insights, new articulations with each fresh encounter, each return.' (Introduction)
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Mary Cresswell Reviews The Weight of Light by Kristen Lang
2018
single work
review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , November 2018;
— Review of The Weight of Light 2017 selected work poetry -
A Well-Made House
2018
single work
essay
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , April vol. 22 no. 1 2018;'A good ecopoem, Christopher Arigo explains, is ‘a house … founded on the tension between the cutting edge of innovation and ecological thinking’ (Arigo 2007: 3). Such poems abound in Kristin Lang’s The Weight of Light – a sensually metaphysical collection that subtly yet profoundly ekes out interrelations between humans and animals, language and nature, technology and the immaterial. In line with Gander and Kinsella’s suggestion that ecological poetry ‘might be developed rhizomatically, it might be described as a nest, a collectivity’ (Gander & Kinsella 2012: 13), Lang emphasises the thrumming yet too often overlooked interrelatedness of things via her deft weaving of motifs including moons and mountains, muscle and shadow, silence and breath. This is a collection that demands multiple readings – and rewards them – opening and offering new insights, new articulations with each fresh encounter, each return.' (Introduction)
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Kristen Lang : SkinNotes; The Weight of Light
2018
single work
essay
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , vol. 13 no. 2018;'Kristen Lang is an unusual poet in that her first two full-length books have appeared in the same year. For an outsider it’s difficult to know what the relationship between them is: it could be that SkinNotes contains poems that are earlier than those of The Weight of Light or it might be that a large group of existing poems of varying ages was simply subdivided into two manuscripts, perhaps along generally thematic lines. Whatever the case there are powerful continuities between the books just as there are significant differences.' (Introduction)
Awards
- 2019 longlisted Tasmania Book Prizes — Margaret Scott Prize