Open Window
Published on 30. August 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
130 pages
978-1-906236-33-5 (ISBN)
Description
The poems in Open Window reveal Joyce Williams to be a fine and serious lyric poet able to charm the reader with her sense of place, and excellent ear. Her evocation of Somerset and its people is particularly impressive. These poems arise from the distinguished line of British poetry that employs music, formal intelligence and an awareness of grace to delight and move. Open this book and enter a world well worth getting to know. Todd Swift Oxfam GB Poet In Residence Author of Seaway: New and Selected Poems
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Illustrations
four black and white line drawings
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-906236-33-5 (9781906236335)
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Person
A former pupil of Chipping Sodbury Grammar School, Joyce Williams worked in the research laboratory of a printing firm until her marriage in 1961. After her children were born, Joyce took her ALCM and LLCM and taught music and speech. Later she obtained an honours BA and BSc with the Open University. A prolific writer and poet, her short stories and poems were published in magazines for many years and broadcast on radio, notably her children's stories on Listen with Mother. Joyce was working on her autobiography when she died unexpectedly in February 2009 after a short illness.