A First Reader

John Watson

ISBN 0864187955 RRP $24

"John Watson can write a wicked metaphor and a sensuous simile. Insight is underwritten by sly humour in these perceptions of life as art and art as life. The whole delicious caboodle is rife with gentle subversions and awakenings"

Jan Owen

John Watson was born in the Bland District of NSW and has worked in various jobs, including fruit picking and school teaching. His first book, A First Reader, was published by Five Islands Press in 2003. He was a winner of the Newcastle Poetry Prize in 2002 for his sequence "A Jetty Completely Surrounded."