Stephen Watts Boeken

Awarded multiple honors, this compelling nonfiction work delves into the intricacies of history through personal letters, journals, and diaries. It offers an intimate glimpse into the lives and experiences of individuals, blending biographical elements with rich historical context. The narrative not only highlights significant events but also emphasizes the personal stories behind them, making it a profound exploration of human experience and memory. Recognized for its unique approach, it stands out as a notable contribution to both history and memoir literature.

Výbor ze sbírky The Lava's Curl a z rukopisů doplněný rozhovorem s básníkem. Vybral, přeložil a uspořádal Petr Mikeš. Jazyková spolupráce Matthew Sweney.

The poems of Ancient Sunlight range in theme and space from the inner East End of London – where the poet has lived for over thirty years – with its complex richnesses of cultures and the often brutal pains of its regeneration, to great European cities such as Prague and the Italian mountains of his family origins. It is a poetry that marries personal acuity with deep communal awareness, reflecting his work as a poet in schools, hospitals, galleries, drop-in centers, urban and moorland fastnesses, and the wilder places of the human heart. This is a generous, passionate poetry of affirmation and anger for those excluded by, or on the margins of, our drunkenly material literature and society.

The book delves into the challenges faced by fragile African states in effectively utilizing security sector assistance. It examines the inherent risks involved in providing such aid and offers insights on how the United States can improve its strategies to better anticipate and mitigate these risks, ultimately aiming to enhance the stability and security of these nations.

Republic Of Dogs/Republic Of Birds is an urgent, meditative text of urban and rural language and landscapes. Its non-linear narrative moves between London's Isle of Dogs and the Western Isles of Scotland and is both a topographical journey through two landscapes and a highly personal meditation on the history and geographies of these locations. The writing itself is a form of activism, memorialising eroded cultures through their physical traces and the stories and voices of their inhabitants. Republic Of Dogs/Republic Of Birds is a lucid memorial text by one of the most astute and sensitive of writers on the relationship between landscape and time. The author's distinct and visceral poetic sensibility combines a fierce honesty, rooted in the realities of places he has lived and worked in, with a beautiful and explosive imaginative lyricism. Written on a typewriter in the 1980s, the manuscript was mislaid and lost. Found again in 2012 it was typed onto a laptop with minimal editing. First published in 2016 and republished in 2020, it is a text for and of our dissonant times.

Journeys Across Breath collects poems from the extraordinary career of one of the UK's most significant poets, Stephen Watts. Gathering all of Watts' published works between 1975 and 2005 - as well as a number of unpublished pieces appearing here for the very first time - this collection is an astonishing journey through the life and eyes of a remarkable writer of people and place. This long-awaited volume presents the breadth of Watts' writing, from early prose poems, through long narrative sequences, fragmentary episodes, and later poetic meditations - all in Watts' unmistakable voice. A writer of both the intensely personal and deeply-felt universal, Watts' poetry charts familial histories, friendships, and encounters, set in both remote, rural landscapes across Europe and the changing, urban environs of East London.