Bücher von Jane Williams

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'Absorbing, empathetic and cerebral all at once. Using ordinary language and often extraordinary turns of phrase, Williams manages to peel back the complex layers of our everyday lives with remarkable grace and clarity.' - Judy Johnson'Jane Williams has the rare ability to make our ordinary days feel not just vividly real, but also cared for, and precious. In scenes from her own life and the sympathetically observed lives of others, there is a lovely coexistence of pragmatism and a belief in the need for comfort. From falling in love "in slow motion" with a blue tongue lizard to seeing in the mirror the face of her mother's daughter greeting her kindly - "ne more fold in the soul's origami", undercurrents is constantly surprising, enriching and memorable.' - Jean Kent

Commonplace observations, occurrences, and emotions are explored from the innerverse of the psyche to the universe of the soul.These poems are written thorugh the lens of exceptionality, with a concentration on the mundane happenstance of simply breathing through the minutes as the hours slip away. This poetry is intimate, inviting, surreal in its realism; and resolutely and absolutely human. In this age of uncertainty and fragility this book attempts to look at the weave of history and life to find where we are at so we may chart our way into smoother waters and survival whether temporary or eternal.  

Jane Williams's Parts of the Main is her chemistry, abuzz in a murmuration of organic electrons that at once forms memory, then problems of translation not solely of words, but in comprehending our modernity. These shape-shifting poems are an assignation of author to grace with it, with her, we travel to Europe, her youth, to longings of elsewhere and an ever developing raison d'tre. - Kent MacCarterJane Williams is a poet who leans out of the frame, who turns your ear if not your head. In Parts of the Main we are caught - sometimes caught out -by her ';days of blue and banter', ';eyeball spoils of war', trees ';falling like the bones of oracles'. She writes the tender, the vulnerable, the unshowable. Sometimes there is a touch of the brogue. Jane Williams answers the question ';Will poetry be enough?' Convincingly. - Lizz Murphy

';With their seeking out of common ground between strangers, mothers and daughters, friends and lovers, Jane Williams's poems are full of warmth and delight in being alive. Bullies, funerals and ';business as usual' exist here, but so too does the possibility of being ';surprised by joy'. The language is beautifully sparse and understated, hitting home with sudden images which are startling and powerful. Begging the Question is a book to keep by the bed and read again and again. Its grace and clarity make the world feel a better place.' Jean Kent

In great detail the Welsh writer Jane Williams (1806-1885) tells the history of Wales from the settlement of the Cymry in pre-Christian Britain until the Tudors. The work, published in 1869, is based on the use of an impressive range of material, including that of Pliny and Bede.