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Jane Williams Jane Williams i(A30714 works by)
Born: Established: 1964 Middlesex,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
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Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Jane Williams has an Irish father and an Australian mother. She has lived in Tasmania with her two daughters. Her poems have been widely published in Australian literary journals and newspapers since the early 1990s.

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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Points of Recognition Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2021 21473872 2021 selected work poetry

'Jane Williams's eye and ear are trained to human idiosyncrasy and foible, and to the endless possibilities that are held within a life. In her ineffable compassion and in the ringing rhythms of her long syntax this is poetry that speaks to the ear and the marrow.' (Publication summary)

2022 longlisted Tasmania Book Prizes Tasmanian Literary Awards Tim Thorne Prize for Poetry
3 Points of Recognition i "One inexplicably melancholic lunch break", 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Empathy : Poems from the 2018 ACU Prize for Poetry 2018; (p. 105-107)
2018 third place ACU Prize for Poetry
My Mother's Travel Diary i "begins with murder -", 2005 2005 single work poetry
— Appears in: Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize 1999-;
2005 winner Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize
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