About your tutor

    Dr Kristen Lang holds a doctorate in poetry, awarded by Deakin University in 2004. She is passionate about her work and about sharing the art of poetry with other people. She works as a poet, a teacher of poetry, and as a reviewer. She lives in Sheffield, Tasmania. Her mission is to write one really good poem, and perhaps a book of them, before her 73rd birthday (which is some way off).

"if words are a raft do you dare to float it

let it slip from the fleshjetty anchored        

in nerves                                                                       

feel the rope of ligaments                                 

tighten    and snap."                                              

                                                               Wendy Jenkins