[re]turn

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love notes from the mountain

Kristen Lang

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English

Black Inc
03 February 2026

Poetry

The poems of

re turn are besotted not by the who but the inclusive where of what it is to be alive, and never only to do with humans.

What does the world we live in mean to us? The platform of our daily living? Intricate, intimate, deep-time emergent and never, from the microbes of our guts to the minerals of the moon, only to do with humans. The poems of

re turn are besotted not by the who but the inclusive where of what it is to be alive. Snout beetle, rain drop, these phone-cradling humans, the humpback whales, all of it, even AI, pours through the poems into the Earth we have. The world is not a stage. Lang grapples with the hope that perhaps there are ways to (re)turn to a being and becoming that is consciously, lovingly, a part of it.

By: Kristen Lang
Imprint: Black Inc
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 208mm, Width: 147mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 200g
ISBN: 9781763733190
ISBN 10: 176373319X
Pages: 100
Publication Date: 03 February 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kristen Lang moved from Melbourne to regional Tasmania as a child. She now lives in mountainous country in north-west Tasmania. In her writing, closeness and connection combine with a beyond-human view that celebrates ecological continuity. Her collection of poems and photographs Let me show you a ripple was self-published in 2008. In 2017, her poetry books SkinNotes and The Weight of Light were published by Walleah Press and Five Islands Press. The latter was longlisted for the 2019 Margaret Scott Award. Earth Dwellers, published in 2021 by Giramondo, was longlisted for the 2021 Laurel Prize.