In The Hundreds

J.S, is really pleased to have a new poem in celebratory issue 100 of Obsessed With Pipework and, Stateside, to have a new poem in issue 122 of Dreams and Nightmares.

Illumen Autumn 2022

 Including poetry by J.S.Watts.

                                

Celebrating National Poetry Day

Poetry reading at Baldock Library on National Poetry Day, Thursday 6th October from 3.30pm

Underword

Underword, J.S.Watts' third full poetry collection and fifth poetry publication, is due to be published by Lapwing Publications in Winter 2022.

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.

Please keep an eye on this website for further details as the publication date gets closer.

Monkey Night at the Circus

J.S. is exceedingly pleased that Monkey Night at the Circus (first published in issue 103 of Acumen) has been chosen as a guest poem on the Acumen website.

You can read it, for a little while at least, by clicking here.

Where The Owls Blossom

"Where the Owls Blossom" is dark, short story by J.S.Watts. It was published by Pressfuls Digipress last year as part of their Wild Genus anthology, but for some reason didn't seem to get much of an announcement. 

So, to make amends, here is "Where The Owls Blossom". You can read it online by clicking here 

Interviewed With a Fountain Pen

J.S. Watts has recently been interviewed by West Country based, award winning writer, Annalisa Crawford.

If you want know how J.S. approaches a new writing project, what she has to have with her in order to write and why her most recent novel, "Elderlight" had a very unfortunate launch, you should pop over to Annalisa's blog, "Blogging With My Fountain Pen", to read the interview.