Still Lives

A mix of both lineated and prose poems, the pieces in Still Lives experiment with space on the page and play with sound and form as the book itself examines place and what it means to be here or there. These poems are written about departing a place and then living in a very new one, Canberra, and forging a relationship with it.

• 2022 Canberra Critics Circle Awards Winner

• Shortlisted, 2023 ACT Notable Book Awards

About the Author

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.

Kimberly moved to Canberra to work on a PhD after twenty years of writing and teaching in the U.S. Southwest and currently serves as the director for the Poetry on the Move Festival. She is originally from Detroit, Michigan.