Jane Mary Wilde

Jane Mary Wilde spent her early childhood in India. She studied music, and later took a degree in German from University College London. She lived in Germany with her husband the musician David Wilde, and has translated many books from German into English. They moved to Scotland in 2000, and since then Jane Mary has won a Diploma from the Scottish International Poetry Competition, the Sonnet prize from the Edinburgh Writers' Club, and third prize in a Christian Poetry Competition. Her first collection of poems, "Entertaining Angels Unawares" with illustrations by her sister Priscilla Sorapure, was published in 2006.

Jane's poetry is eloquently worded, profound and wise. But the quality that grips me, keeps me reading, is always "How is it going to end?"  More than most contemporary poets, Jane Mary Wilde's poems are making a point - and it is one that needs to be heard.
Shirley du Boulay

Memory is a wonderful source and Jane Mary Wilde draws on it generously. The poet moves between India, Scotland, Germany, England and Croatia, evoking potent atmosphere. There’s an unusually wide range of voices too: we share not only the author’s first person viewpoint but many others. There’s the point of view of an ‘untouchable’ in India, a pony who calls its owner a ‘Traitor’, a group of marauding monkeys, the Green Man, the Green Woman, the spirits of the dead, Dr Victor Sorapure. So there’s plenty of variety. This is a genuinely interesting set of poems.

Helena Nelson, Sphinx 13