Take Refuge in National Poetry Day 2023

UK National poetry Day 2023 is on Thursday, 5th October 2023. This year's theme is Refuge.

To celebrate the day, J.S.Watts will be giving a special poetry reading and talk at Baldock Library from 3.30pm to approximately 4.30pm. She will be exploring diverse interpretations of Refuge and reading her own poems and those of other poets that consider the concept of refuge in its many and varied forms. 

The event is aimed at adults, but ALL are welcome.

It is a FREE event but donations to the library will be appreciated.

Baldock Library is in Simpson Drive, Baldock, Hertfordshire, SG7 6DH

September Movie Night

J.S. Watts will be one of the poets reading at the event. Come along to find out which film she has chosen to write about.

And Another One...

September 2023 is proving to be a well-published month.

J.S.'s new poem, At A Folk Festival Without You, appears in the September issue, no. 102, of The Frogmore Papers.

A High Window in Autumn

Please do take a peek at the autumn edition of the online High Window.

In this new edition, J.S Watts reviews Sometime, in a Churchyard, which she calls "a rather lovely, limited edition pamphlet of poems by Louise Warren and black and white line drawings by Charlotte Harker", and also shares a brand new poem of her own, Phantoms. Plus there's a bumper harvest of other poems and reviews

That's got to be worth checking out.

Wandering in Infinity

September is a hectic month for publications, as far as J.S. is concerned.

Issue 7 of Infinity Wanderers Magazine has now been published and it contains a brand new story by J.S.Watts, 'The Rose' - an historical tale of roses and death (amongst other things).

Check the previous two posts on this website for other September publications. There may be more to follow...

Words for the Semi-Aquatic

Issue 5 of The Amphibian hopped out of the pond on 1st September. It includes a haunting new poem,
Running The Street, by J.S.Watts, as well as a bucket load of other murky delights.

Poems in the Lake

 J.S. has two new poems in this month's online issue of The Lake.

The poems are: Price of a Poem and Uncertain Heard Voices. You can read both poems for free here.