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
£9.99
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.

This Is Going To Hurt
Teaching Sprints
Outraged
The Secret Doctor
House of Small Absences
SLAM! You're Gonna Wanna Hear This


