Break all the rules but not all at once.
Remember you are just visiting. Try not to get too attached. When you’re ready, come home. I’ve left a light burning in the ruins.
In her latest volume, Jane Williams, winner of the Anne Elder Award and the D.J. O’Hearn Memorial Fellowship, continues to test the boundaries of what poetry can be rather than what many people assume it is.
This is a collection with urban grit. It will speak to you in themes as intimate as next door, or as abstract as the next galaxy. You won’t be able to put it down.
IP (Interactive Publications Pty Ltd)
A new collection from Jane Williams is an event worth celebrating. Contemplation on the wonder of all lives is an ongoing theme in all her work, here deepened into meditations on the ambiguities of life, the sacredness as well as the profanity of individuals. Williams has a lightness of touch, evident in admirable turns of phrase and points of view that grant her characters credibility and dignity. Like her free verse forms, her haibun and villanelle poems are accomplished studies of acts and motives. The poems are rewarding for their deft presentation of the layers that we recognise as life’s complexity and wholeness. Williams’s fellow-feeling is wise and generous.
– Michael Sharkey
IP (Interactive Publications Pty Ltd)
Hers is an important voice, a voice which chronicles, explores and celebrates the world we live in not only by what it says but more significantly by how it says it. She has a wonderful capacity for catching the precise, telling detail and presenting it in the perfect nuance of tone.
– Tim Thorne