Promoting and supporting the teaching and study of Scottish literature and language
J.L. Williams is a poet, and Programme Manager for the Scottish Poetry Library. Her work has been published in journals including Poetry Wales, The Wolf, Edinburgh Review, Magma, Fulcrum, and Stand. Her poems have been featured in New Writing Scotland 30 and in the Scottish Poetry Library’s Best Scottish Poems from 2011 and 2013. She is particularly interested in cross-form work and has collaborated with artists, musicians and filmmakers.
So often these days I’m aware that my life, with its gentle rhythms of eating and sleeping, working in a building filled with glass and light and books of poetry, enjoying time with friends at literary festivals, walking streets lined with blossoming gardens and glittering shops — all that comes at the cost of the […]
Nothing could be less conducive to reaching an art-work than critical remarks: it’s always simply a matter of more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Everything cannot be so easily grasped and conveyed as we are generally let to believe; most events are unconveyable and come to pass in a space that no word has ever penetrated; […]