The Met Office Advises Caution by Rebecca Watts
An intelligent, witty, warm-hearted debut by a leading contributor to New Poetries VI
'What a joy to find a writer so capable of creating narrative within the poetic, humour within philosophy, wildness and drama within the quotidianWatts has a rare, perceptive eye, searching intelligence and gorgeous levity. This is a striding and far from standard debut.' Sarah Hall; 'Rebecca Watts' poems adopt strange and illuminating vantage points - the bird's-eye view of a hawk, or a Victorian lady surveying a street from a penny-farthing - to do poetry's work of telling the truth, but telling it slant. Watts is particularly attuned to those points where human and non-human creatures meet and interact, and writes with intelligence and incision.' Emma Jones; 'With Watts we get this sense of the creative mind being strung out and pushed to its limits.' The Poetry School
Rebecca Watts was born in Suffolk in 1983 and currently lives in Cambridge, where she works in a library and as a freelance writer, editor and tutor. In 2015 a selection of her poetry featured in Carcanet's New Poetries VI anthology. Her debut collection The Met Office Advises Caution (2016) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the 2017 Seamus Heaney Centre Prize. Her second collection, Red Gloves, was published in 2020 and won a Gladstone's Library Writers-in-Residence Award. Rebecca has received fellowships and awards from the Hawthornden Foundation, the Royal Literary Fund, the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, the Society of Authors and Arts Council England. The Face in the Well (2025) is her latest collection.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781784102722 |
| ISBN 10 | 1784102725 |
| Title | The Met Office Advises Caution |
| Author | Rebecca Watts |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2016-09-29 |
| Number of pages | 72 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry First Collection Prize 2017 |
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