Kiara Lindsay



Ash Davida Jane Reviews Kiara Lindsay and Robyn Maree Pickens

Robyn Maree Pickens’ debut collection Tung (Otago University Press, 2023) joins a growing school of contemporary ecopoetics within Aotearoa New Zealand. Recently awarded third place for the international Laurel Prize for “the best collection of nature or environmental poetry,” Tung is deeply concerned with the non-human world and new, or perhaps very old, ways of being.

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Tell Me Like You Mean It 6

Once, I was sitting in my therapist’s office, and she asked me the question ‘Why do you write poetry?’ It’s a very good question; one with many answers, half of which I couldn’t articulate here. I responded to her with something like, ‘It helps me to understand my internal environment.’

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I am in the lake

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