Jayne Wilding

Jayne Wilding lives and writes in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.

She is a freelance writer and researcher. sky blue notebook from the Pyrenees draws on the experience of living in the foothills of the French Pyrenees for three years.

Poems have recently been published in a garland (island, 2008), Ten Seasons (Scottish Poetry Library in association with Luath Press, 2007) and Luckenbooth an Anthology of Edinburgh Poetry (Polygon in association with Scottish Poetry Library, 2007). Her collection In the Moon’s Pantry was published by diehard Publications 2004.

In 1998 Jayne began running writing workshops, particularly in areas relating to health and wellbeing. She currently runs Expressive Creative Writing groups for Maggie’s Centre.

Her pamphlet was joint runner-up in the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award for pamphlets published in 2008.

It "is the loveliest and most sure-footed collection of poems... I have read in ages"
Tom Leonard, Sunday Herald, and

"Jayne Wilding's Sky Blue Notebook From The Pyrenees (Calder Wood) is a quietly beautiful sequence from [the natural] world."
Tom Leonard, Morning Star

" With minimal punctuation – no full stops, one comma, no page numbers, a few questions – Calder Wood Press has published a fine chapbook that is more like a fugue than a sequence of poems, more unsaid than said. The words on each page are carefully placed, inviting the reader to read aloud, even sing, and repeat the verses savouring the images, the sounds, letting the sense sink in. Some of the poems leap off the page like little prayers, and like prayers they need long pauses for reflection so their meaning can touch deeper places, and the bigger meaning is probably the space surrounding the words."
Larry Butler, Lapidus Journal.