At the Beginning of February

The High Window has published J.S.'s review of Maeve McKenna's debut solo pamphlet, A Dedication To Drowning, work which J.S. describes as "taut, intense, vibrant poetry that embraces the rawness of everyday living".

Morphrog 2023

 J.S. is very, very happy to have three poems published in January's issue 26 of Morphrog. The poems are:

Walking in Empty Shoes

Quartus

Snapshooting

You can read them for free here

Season's Greetings

 Season's Greetings and best wishes to you for 2023.

                                                                              J.S.

Did You Miss It?

J.S. talked to the award winning Leigh Chambers, on Leigh's Cambridge 105 Radio morning show, about
her new poetry collection Underword. She even read two of the poems from the collection: It Is Like Breathing and Bartlow Hills. The programme was broadcast live last Friday. Did you miss it?

Don't worry, you can listen to the broadcast by clicking below and hear J.S. reading the two poems in question, as well as talking to Leigh.

Leigh Chambers: J.S.Watts

Other December News

The Royston Crow has published a brief article to celebrate the publication of J.S.Watts' new poetry collection, Underword.

Meanwhile, The High Window has published two reviews by J.S. One is of Hubert Moore's twelfth poetry collection, Country of Arrival. The other considers Across a Sheet of Paper, a selection of German poems translated by Christine McNeill.

Click on the above links to read the article or the two reviews.

Full Stop At The End Of The World

J.S. Watts' dark, new story, Full Stop At The End Of The World, is available to read for free at Idle Ink. Described by the online magazine as "Horror", "Surreal" and "Weird Fiction" you can find it here if you feel strong enough.

The Word is "Underword"

Underword, J.S. Watts' third full poetry collection (and fifth poetry book) is now out in the big, wide world.

You can buy a copy from this website, via Amazon or from the book's publisher, Lapwing Publications.

Want to know more?

In an age where we can talk about anything, we remain reticent about death. It is an integral, complex, unavoidable part of life, the one guaranteed thing all of us will experience, but it remains our final taboo. Underword is a poetry collection that is not afraid to examine death from many angles and viewpoints. Loosely following the narrative flow of the story of Orpheus, the poems of Underword explore life, dying, death, mourning, moving on, hell and the afterlife, hope, disintegration and despair, and endings. Death is as limitless and as limiting as life. Its stories are many.