The Website of the Writer J.S.Watts
It's a busy start to February.
First Beir Bua and now the February issue of The Lake has been published containing a very new poem by J.S.Watts - I Want An Eastern Seaboard American Accent.
You can read the poem (for free) and find out why by clicking here.
Issue II of Beir Bua is now out with its simmering collection of avant garde and dangerously experimental poets, writers and artists. J.S. is included amongst their number.
If you want to see and read her poem Wind Chimes click here to download a free copy of issue II.
J.S. is honoured to be amongst some amazing poets and artists interviewed by the equally awesome Claire Trevien on her blog as part of a series exploring poets who also produce visual art.
You can read the interview by clicking here.
If you want to see more of J.S.'s photography you should check out her photographic blog, Random Acts of Would-Be Photography
Today, Lothlorien Poetry Journal has generously published five of J.S.'s poems:
Bubble Witches
Craft
Self Destruction Slowly
Two Crows
Surya Passes Above the Marigolds
You can read all five of them for FREE, by clicking here
J.S. is delighted to have a new poem, City Lightscapes, published online by the Poetry Village, who pair poems with some wonderful images.
You can read it for free by clicking on this link.
2020 has been a rum old year, and no mistake. So, I'd like to take the opportunity to wish you all the best for the winter holidays, however you spend them this year, and to share some light, along with the traditional Yuletide flame.
To find this poem
I am following a bright star
through the darkest days of winter,
which is apposite.
It started with a star, if you believe,
and the bright of angel wings,
a blinding host
refracted on regal diadems,
golden caskets, the tender light
of a mother’s eye.
It is all about light,
born that night and reflecting
down centuries, millennia of firelight,
candle-glow, sparkle of crisp, sharp frost,
hopeful glimmers in the black, gaudy fairy-lights
shining on curves of polished glass,
excitement sparking in a child’s eyes
as they catch tinsel, shiny ribbon, gift-wrapped dreams.
All illuminating the longest dark
with a life-igniting festival of lights.
© J.S.Watts
Lights was first published in The Writers' Magazine
J.S. Watts has a brand new and unsettling story in the December edition of Penumbric viliv, issue 4 and you can read it online. It's called The Sisters and its roots are in classic horror, but in a contemporary setting.
Up and coming young architect, Emily Quinton, feels oddly uncomfortable on her first visit to the country house of her new client, but her discomfort only grows when she makes a return visit...
