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Coming Sept 17th, 2024
Heartfelt, poetic meditations that explore family dynamics from an accomplished poet of Finnish heritage.
In Stars Unseen, Greg Watson fearlessly navigates a path through multi-generational trauma and grief, explores his Finnish-American heritage, and the joys and challenges of single parenting in the present age. It is a clear-eyed collection that seeks hope and redemption in the face of adversity, and manages to pin down the smallest moments for closer examination.
Released Sep 3rd, 2024
Paris Morning Publications is pleased to announce an anthology of poetry about birds. Birds of all varieties, in all seasons, and in all experiences. Available from these local booksellers: Subtext Books, Drury Lane Books, Moon Palace Books, Next Chapter Booksellers, Magers & Quinn Booksellers
Released Aug 28th, 2024
Such a calm and compelling title. Rare, in my reading, for an epigraph to lead the reader so clearly into the narrator's ways of seeing and feeling the world. Greg Watson's faith in the reader - to catch his tone, to begin to understand preoccupations, his visions, his losses - all this is moving. I think we feel acknowledged, but we also know he is traveling with "half-finished maps", and with "steadfast allegiance to beauty," and we readers are with him, but he is with his familiars, his lost brother, his double shadow, his losses, his memories of different kinds and qualities of love, his old notebooks carrying old news and truths, the return of the act of drawing to his life, and, most essential to this collection, the daughter, and all the birds he listens for and notices. These small birds, spirit messengers, singers and tiny charms against certain darkness, are made real in Watson's poems. A foster father, beloved, is made real to us in poems - what the narrator still believes in - made real in this collection. Watson is the author of several wonderful poetry books, and this book joins that group, a book written by a grown-up, who thinks and feels deeply, inside all the days between. A beautiful book.
-Deborah Keenan, author of eleven collections of poetry, including The Saint of Everything and from tiger to prayer