Dawn Watson

Debut poetry pamphlet The Stack of Owls is Getting Higher published by The Emma Press. Poet Mark Doty said of the poems: ‘Their Southern, mountain, cracked visionary feel is exactly evocative of a rural, regional culture sort of washing up on the ruinous shores of the 21st century. The speaker sees what is and isn’t there with a clear, unsettling vision — and the sort of unexpected surrealism of these descriptions, which are ominous and beautiful at once, heightened and comic, is compelling.’

‘This short collection showcases a huge range of skills and topics, but most of all, Dawn Watson’s powerful imagination and slanted world view.’ – London Grip