Precarious Lives
Precarious Lives by Jean Watkins is a poetry collection published by Two Rivers Press in 2018. This edition features 64 pages and is presented in English. The collection explores the diversity of wildlife, landscape, art, and human experience, capturing events and lives with sensuous detail. Watkins reflects on the fragile nature of existence and the various threats faced, particularly those arising from climate change.
Readers will find a rich tapestry of imagery and emotion throughout the poems, which emphasize the connection between the natural world and human life. The collection invites contemplation of our precarious existence, blending themes of nature and urban life. With its focus on concrete details, Precarious Lives offers a nuanced perspective on the challenges and beauty of life, making it a thoughtful addition to the realm of contemporary poetry.
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Precarious Lives, Jean Watkins’ second collection, celebrates the diversity of wildlife, landscape, art and human experience. Events and lives are described in sensuous detail. Throughout, the poet is conscious of our tenuous hold on life, the perennial threats we face, as well as those more recent ones inaugurated by the coming of climate change.
from reviews of Scrimshaw (Two Rivers Press, 2013):
‘Jean Watkins … illustrates a particular gift for concrete detail with poems so rich in the senses that they seem to lift off the page … This collection also includes a number of poems which have a sparkly ‘stand alone’ quality’ – The North
‘Watkins works our imaginations through our senses and, as with the best short poems, the story is rich in what Roland Barthes called blind field, the white area around a photograph, the world around a poem’ – London Grip
‘Watkins’ sense of detail is sharp, whether describing nature, an urban scene in Reading or family matters. … Make no mistake, these are poems crafted as carefully as the artefacts and heirlooms they sometimes describe … and I am left wanting more’ – The Interpreter’s House
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