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Still Lives

by Kimberly K. Williams
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780645464863
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Life Before Man
  • Publisher Imprint: Life Before Man
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  • Pages: 146
  • Original Price: GBP 9.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 186 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Australian & Oceanian

Still Lives is a luminous and formally inventive poetry collection that explores what it means to live between worlds. Written across landscapes stretching from the American Southwest to Australia's coastlines, bushland, rivers, and cities, Kimberly K. Williams's poems inhabit the shifting space between departure and arrival, memory and transformation, solitude and intimacy.

Birds become recurring companions and guides throughout the collection: magpies, ravens, swallows, cockatoos, noisy miners, crows, and seagulls populate these pages, observing human longing with equal measures of wit and wisdom. Williams's attention to the natural world is matched by an acute sensitivity to language itself. Poems scatter, rearrange, and reshape words across the page, creating visual and sonic textures that mirror the uncertainty and exhilaration of migration, love, and reinvention.

Against the backdrop of contemporary Australia-including Sydney, Manly, Canberra, and the bush-the collection traces experiences of relocation, lockdown, desire, grief, cultural translation, and belonging. Everyday encounters become moments of revelation: a birdcall, a storm, a river current, a conversation, a memory carried across continents.

Both intimate and expansive, Still Lives combines lyrical precision with experimental energy. The poems ask how identity changes when one crosses borders, how language adapts to new landscapes, and how connection persists across distance. Rich in imagery, emotional intelligence, and musicality, this collection offers a deeply attentive meditation on place, transformation, and the possibility of finding home in movement itself.

Williams, Kimberly K.: - Kimberly K Williams is the author of three books, Still Lives (Life Before Man, 2022), Sometimes a Woman (Recent Work Press, 2021) and Finally, the Moon, (Stephen F Austin University Press, 2017). Kimberly was short-listed for the University of Canberra's Vice-Chancellor's Poetry Prize in 2019, and won the Bright Harvest Poetry Prize in 2012. Her poems appear in many journals and anthologies around the world.After twenty years of writing and teaching in the U.S. Southwest, Kimberly moved to Canberra to work on a PhD and currently serves as the director for the Poetry on the Move Festival. She is originally from Detroit, Michigan.

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