Small Towns: Poems of people and place

Small Towns is an accomplished collection of free-verse and structured poetry exploring the relationship between people and place, the human condition against the natural world. Melissa Watts shines a light on the unsaid. She picks the scab of small-town tensions, then unflinchingly aims her bow at social injustice, tipping her hat to the feminist poets who have come before her.

Melissa Watts has published poetry, fiction and non-fiction for over fifteen years. Her poems have inspired other ...