The Other City: Selected Poems 1977-1999

Paperback. English. David Philip. 2000. In good condition.

Watson is a city poet as well as one of the sea and the mountains, searching for a presence that eludes most and, as some would claim, is inevitably denied us. His carefully crafted work stands as a body of thought resisting the postmodern landscape. Review: Mail & Guardian, Friday Books November 17 to 23, Lionel Abrahams: He stands in line with Wordsworth, Coleridge and Keats in respect, inter alia, of his thematic engagement with nature, with beauty, with love, with imagination and with poetry itself. More specifically, there is his identification of spiritual value in the beauty of nature