That Broke Into Shining Crystals
Poetry Book Society Choice Spring 2025
John Fennelly Watts positions herself where Wordsworth

Watts positions herself where Wordsworth

Poetry audiences went from stadium size to coffee house size

I’m particularly struck by how the themes echo each other in an unforced way throughout

and poems of the political imagination

That Broke Into Shining Crystals<br><b>Poetry Book Society Choice Spring 2025</b><br> John Fennelly Watts positions herself where WordsworthFor years I had no sound but his sweetness, his lye. Thus I go slow. I song last. Least. The lower. That which I had nor sound I may still song. Trauma and vulnerability violation and its aftershock are explored within a framework of self determination and radical queerness in Richard Scott's second collection. In three sequences, he documents what it is to have survived 'seismic assaults, the buried silences'. This is first pursued through still life