City of Possibliities

by Jane Williams

Overview

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.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014587884
Publisher:	IP (Interactive Publications Pty Ltd)
Publication date:	06/23/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	84
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Jane Williams was born in England 1964 and grew up in Victoria. Her poetry first started appearing in the early 1990's and has since been published widely nationally and internationally.

City of Possibilities is her fourth poetry collection. Her first book Outside Temple Boundaries received the Anne Elder Award in 1998. Other awards include the D.J. O'Hearn Memorial Fellowship, the Bruce Dawe Poetry prize, writer residencies and grants from state and federal arts bodies.

She has been a featured reader at several festivals including twice at the Queensland Poetry Festival. In recent years she has developed an interest in contemporary haibun. She moved to Tasmania eight years ago with her two daughters.

Editorial Reviews

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

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