Fever Tree

...a beguiling read... she speaks very persuasively of encounters... It's a mood of such candour that gives many of these poems their poignancy, as they move quietly and colloquially over situations and memories, their warmth achieved as much by an implied familiarity as by their expression.

...explores the landscapes of memory with stark, and at times disconcerting, clarity. She is at her best when most surprising, bringing flashes of the extraordinary to the everyday.

The well-crafted surface of these poems with their light touch gives the insight and depth considerable impact.

Jackie Wills travels through landscapes of place, memory and imagination with a luminous clarity. Many of her poems are rooted in an ordinary, domestic world of family; others take us on journeys — from South Africa to the Sierra Nevada, via Shoreham Airport Cafe. All are voyages of discovery, mapped through her precise observation and vividly sensual images. She manages beautifully the conjuring trick of writing poems that begin with simple moment, observation or place, but that spin off, tracking soundwaves through space to become lyrical and humane meditations on the possibilities of life, love and death.

Jackie Wills explores the landscapes of memory and place with stark, and at times disconcerting, clarity. She is at her best when most surprising, bringing flashes of the extraordinary to the everyday..

Jackie Wills's lush empathies address a wide range of subjects: from small aerodromes on the English coast, through the displacements of multi-ethnic Britain, to that poetic hinterland — the family. She explores these subjects with an exact eye for paradox — how people and places can be fragile and powerful, fragmentary and coherent; she writes with a deft and winning stylishness.

Jackie Wills makes poetry out of the every day features of life in which the familiar is charged with a wider resonance.