Jennifer Williams
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219 appearances
9 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 7 Jul
Jennifer Williams’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Do you, I feel like I know the answer, but I'm just curious to hear you talk about it.
Do you think there is anything that can't go into a poem?
And also, I think it's so clear in these poems that there's a, first of all, there's a kind of bravery in the honesty of looking at this experience, even though it is
very dark and scary and painful, but also that there is a beauty that can be drawn out of this as well.
And I think that that is what can sound really horrible, that there can be beauty in
that which is at the same time pain and horror and violence.
I was talking to, we did an interview earlier today with the poet Tanya Shirley from Jamaica, who's here, and she'll be reading also at Stenza in a few days.
I'm looking forward to it.
Yes, great.
But we were talking a little bit, because she...
maybe in a not too dissimilar way has lots of poems that are both about her personal experience but also are able to comment on the political state of where she comes from not in an overt way but maybe via the personal and we were talking about that thing like can a poem
can a poem be a vehicle for change or should a poet even think about it in that way?
And that, you know, on the one hand she would say, well, she doesn't think, you know, she might feel a bit disappointed if she was writing all her poems thinking it would start some sort of revelation.
But at the same time that there is...
you know, if even one person learns something, or I think she, you know, maybe learns something even is too much to say, but is opened up to an experience that helps them understand the world in a different way, that that's really valuable.
That feels like something poems actually are really good at doing.
Brian, it's been such an honour and a pleasure to get to speak with you this afternoon.
Thank you so much for taking the time.
And it's been gorgeous to get to hear these poems in your voice and hear you talk a little bit about your experiences.
And I'm excited for the memoir and to read poems that come in future.
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