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Throughout this vivid collection of poetry and prose and poetic prose there are recollections of her father, who passed away. It is therefore a negotiation with grief, filling the absence with childhood memories, the words keeping close, holding him dear. The words are testament to familial love and the gnaw of absence. -- Books Council of Wales

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‘Grief is never far away, prompting Williams to contemplate the big questions about time, human existence, and environmental fragility. But far from plunging into melancholy, her questing and attentiveness to nature serves to intensify an appreciation and love for her family, friends and this planet, and help her to navigate loss. What emerges is a poignant celebration of life, and living in the moment.’ - Julie Brominicks, author of The Edge of Cymru. ‘Infused with a fierce love for family and the natural world, Lottie Williams illuminates the majesty and magnificence to be found in otherwise unremarkable, quotidian moments. To read The Edge of Everything is to look at the world anew.’ - Carole Hailey, author of The Silence Project and Scenes from a Tragedy. 'With a deft hand, Williams takes us on a physical and emotional journey through the past and present. Grief and love walk alongside red kites, a smiling child, the spirit of a river, her words shining as brightly as the stars she writes so wondrously about. ' - Gaynor Funnell, author of Penbanc: Notes from a Welsh Farmhouse and winner of the Nigel Jenkins Literary Award 2022. 'Williams animates her world with musical precision, with memories that are wide-eyed with wonder and loss. This is achingly lovely, attentive prose – a gift.' - CJ Wagstaff, Winner of the Nigel Jenkins Literary Award 2024 -- Publisher: H'mm Foundation

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Lottie Williams is the winner of the Nigel Jenkins Literary Award 2023 and a Pushcart Prize Nominee, and has been published in Modron, Nation.Cymru, Firewords and Red Door. She holds a Masters in Creative Writing from Swansea University, and was a member of Literature Wales’s Sgwennu Well programme in which she developed a nature-based writing for wellbeing programme for young people. She has featured on the Seren Esgynnol/Rising Star segment of the Youtube channel Just Another Poet, and has guest spoken at Tiger Bay Poetry, Coracle Europe Festival and Landed Festival. Lottie lives in Carmarthen, West Wales with her partner and four children, and works in a primary school. -- Publisher: H'mm Foundation

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