Welsh-raised and Bristol-based, poet Paul Deaton’s début collection, A Watchful Astronomy, is full of poems that are artfully formal, quietly precise, yet full of powerful emotion. Haunted by a father ‘like a wounded bear’, Deaton’s poems are finely attuned and alert to the tensions in relationships.
A Watchful Astronomy
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Welsh-raised and Bristol-based, poet Paul Deaton’s début collection, A Watchful Astronomy, is full of poems that are artfully formal, quietly precise, yet full of powerful emotion. Haunted by a father ‘like a wounded bear’, Deaton’s poems are finely attuned and alert to the tensions in relationships.

The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (And Your Children Will Be Glad That You
No Room For Small Dreams
Lightning Beneath the Sea


