Robyn Maree Pickens



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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The time has come for you to lip sync

Here you are – pulling another foal out of the Ice Age as the moon files its tongue down to a shimmer. A frog with a third eye leaps off a white plate & I can still smell you on …

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@Lesbian_animals

In one photo a rainbow-coloured toy guinea pig—that looks very much like a live guinea pig—stands outside on green leaves. In another photo a yellow snail looks up at a red ladybird crawling over a black and white striped mushroom. …

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