Poetry Protests

J.S.Watts is one of the performers at this week's Protest Night at the Milkmaid Unplugged in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.

On Friday, 28th June, starting at 8.00pm, there will be an evening of protest songs, folk music and poetry all performed without a safety net (or at least a P.A. system).

For further details of the see the Events Page on this website or check out the website for the Milkmaid Folk Arts Centre.

     (Photograph of J.S.Watts reading at The Milkmaid Folk Centre in October 2012, taken by Peter Hrebien)

Words For Wide Skies

The nature poetry anthology, Words for Wide Skies, is being launched at WWT Welney on Friday, 21st June. It contains poems by J.S.Watts, Elaine Ewart, Leanne Moden and Cardinal Cox amongst others. Most importantly, it is being sold to raise money for the conservation work taking place at WWT Welney.

You can read more about it at Flightfeather, former Fenland Poet Laureate, Elaine Ewart's blog.

Pencil Din at the Stevenage Arts Festival

J.S.Watts will be appearing in Pencil Din, part of Stevenage Arts Festival, on Friday 21st June 2013 at the Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage, Hertfordshire.

The show starts at 7.45 and J.S. will be reading poems old and new, including poems from her multi-award nominated pamphlet, Songs of Steelyard Sue.