Karen Knight has written four collections of poetry. Her work has been widely published in overseas and Australian literary journals and anthologies. Karen has won various awards including the 2005 Dorothy Hewett Flagship Fellowship Award which included a month’s residency in Scotland funded by Varuna Writer’s Centre and UNESCO City of Literature Exchange Program. Her collection Postcards from the Asylum, won the 2007 ACT Poetry Prize.
Poem
Karen Knight
knknight@aapt.net.au
I was a tree
bound for glory
chosen from acres
of Douglas Firs
