Julie Watts Julie Watts i(A136990 works by)
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Julie Watts is a West Australian writer based in Fremantle. She has been published in various journals and anthologies. Her award wins and shortlistings include the Newcastle Poetry Prize, the Montreal International Poetry Prize, the Blake Poetry Prize, and the Dorothy Hewett Award.

Watts published her first collection of poetry in 2013, and her second in 2018.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2018 shortlisted Tom Collins Poetry Prize for 'Homage Marguerite'.
2018 longlisted The University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize For 'The Hornet'.
2017 winner Ros Spencer Poetry Prize for 'Earthquake'.

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Legacy Nedlands : UWA Publishing , 2018 14701111 2018 selected work poetry

'This impressive volume keeps the reader in its strong, yet tender, hold. The poems are poised, poignant and braced with feeling, especially grief and loss, but there is joy, too, and celebration, especially of family. In poem after poem, Julie Watts delivers many perspectives, but at all points the human, geographic and moral landscapes are convincing and real. She can dovetail inner and outer worlds effortlessly. Her poems are probing, investigative, yet always humane.

- Judith Beveridge

'This substantial volume is startling in its range: it encompasses elegies, love poems, descriptive pieces, poems of joy and of sorrow as Julie Watts ponders the legacies that form us through genetics and culture and that we in turn pass on. With considerable empathy and generosity of spirit she contemplates the old, the middle-aged and the young, the distant and near past, the present and the future, childhood’s imagination and adulthood’s sometimes tough reality. Identity for her is found in relation to others, in a world that is closely observed and closely imagined; life is a kind of music and she renders it with rhythmic and imagistic richness.

- Dennis Haskell'   (Publication summary)

2018 winner Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript
The Story of Julian Who Will Never Know We Loved Him i "there’s a drunk on the train spouting Kant", 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , October 2017 - March no. 24 2018;
2017 winner Blake Poetry Prize
The Old Couple 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry D'Amour 2017 : Love Poems 2017;
2017 second place Poetry d’Amour Love Poetry Contest
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