Live at Headstand, Cambridge

Following her poetry reading at Headstand on 25th April, J.S.Watts was featured on this Sunday night's Headstand broadcast on Cambridge 105.  She read Way Lin and The Dragon, Lycanthropist, Oracles, Black Cat, Our Girl Dorothy, Losing the Easy and Moors Child, all from her new collection 'Cats And Other Myths'. Hear the radio show again here:  http://headstand.podomatic.com/entry/2011-05-23T14_39_11-07_00

Cats and Other Myths is "richly alive"

In his review for Neon, Christopher Frost calls 'Cats and Other Myths' "a book packed with dense, cleverly thought-out poems...both meticulous and richly alive." "Watts has a wonderful ability to evoke both ferocity and tenderness."

Read the whole review here .

BOOK OF THE MONTH

The Poetry Kit has just announced that 'Cats and Other Myths' by J.S.Watts is its new BOOK OF THE MONTH!

http://www.poetrykit.org/

'Cats and Other Myths' Reviewed on Amazon

J.S.Watts' debut poetry collection, 'Cats and Other Myths', has received very positive reviews via Amazon:

"JS Watts writes beautifully. This is a special book"

"A wonderful collection, with poems of great beauty and power"

Have you bought your copy of 'Cats and Other Myths' yet?

Live at Headstand

J.S.Watts will be reading excerpts from 'Cats and Other Myths' live at Headstand in Cambridge on Monday 25th April 2011 starting at 7.30pm.

Headstand is held at The Emperor, Hills Road, Cambridge. There is a small entry fee of  £3.00.

Official Launch of Cats and Other Myths

It's 1st March -Publication day for Cats and Other Myths (ISBN 978-1907276-64-4) from Lapwing Publications: poems that find contemporary relevance in the echoes of myth and legend and the mythic in the day to day world around us. For further details see Publications

Launch of Cats and Other Myths

J.S.Watts launches her debut poetry collection Cats and Other Myths on 1^st March 2011.

J.S.Watts’ debut poetry collection Cats and Other Myths (ISBN 978-1907276-64-4), published by the Belfast based publisher Lapwing Publications, is being launched on 1^st March 2011. It is a book that finds contemporary relevance in the echoes of myth and legend and the mythic in the day to day world around us. Its poems examine and question given truths, unapologetically holding many up to be little more than fairy tales. This is poetry of history and humanity, love and relationships, life and death and the things that lie in between. Oh, and yes, there are also cats.

As part of World Book Night Celebrations on 5^th March 2011 J.S.Watts will be reading some of her poems from Cats and Other Myths at the Celebration of World Book Night. The event is being held at The Free Church, Market Square, St Ives, Cambridgeshire from 20.00 to 23.00 on Saturday 5^th March 2011 and is open to the public. Copies of Cats and Other Myths will be available to buy and are also available to purchase from selected bookshops, Amazon, Google Books, Lapwing Publications  and this website. 

For further details about how and where to buy a copy of Cats and Other Myths check out the Publications page.