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Islands

New ecopoetry by Kristen Lang and Caitlin Maling
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October 2021, no. 436

Fish Work by Caitlin Maling

UWA Publishing, $29.99 pb, 120 pp

Book 2 Cover Small (400 x 600)

Earth Dwellers: New poems by Kristen Lang

Giramondo, $24 pb, 90 pp

Islands

New ecopoetry by Kristen Lang and Caitlin Maling
by
October 2021, no. 436

New collections from Caitlin Maling and Kristen Lang are situated in vastly different landscapes but pursue similar ideas about the natural world’s fragility and the imminent environmental catastrophe. Maling’s Fish Work, as its title suggests, is primarily interested in marine life and the scientists studying it at Lizard Island Research Station on the Great Barrier Reef, while Lang’s Earth Dwellers explores mountains, caves, and coastlines in Tasmania and Nepal, examining the myriad complexities of ancient ecosystems. Maling’s and Lang’s new books, their fourth collections, urge readers to attend to the work of millennia that has produced these distinctive ecosystems and, in doing so, to appreciate the urgency of protecting them.

Ella Jeffery reviews 'Fish Work' by Caitlin Maling and 'Earth Dwellers: New poems' by Kristen Lang

Fish Work

by Caitlin Maling

UWA Publishing, $29.99 pb, 120 pp

Book 2 Cover Small (400 x 600)

Earth Dwellers: New poems

by Kristen Lang

Giramondo, $24 pb, 90 pp

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