Welcome to the website of Anglican author/poet John S A Watts, you can find my published and upcoming works on this website. Right now my books aren’t available, but the first volume of my poetry Bible, Sweetlight, is due to come out in June.
I have another book coming out soon, Mustered by the Muse: A Poet Called, the first book of my epic poem where the poet is called by the Muse to assist in the salvation of the nation by writing a poem where the poet must tell the stories of the saints and venture into the lair of the seven deadly sins in order to show what is wrong with the human heart and find the solution to the darkness therein.
Anglican Poet, John S A Watts, published by various online journals, is currently attempting an exciting work, “Sweetlight: A Poetry Bible”, the stories of the Bible creatively interpreted through traditional poetry to offer the stories of Sacred Scripture afresh for a modern audience.
The task is a monumental one: the entire Bible transformed into a work of poetry, utilising traditional poetic techniques, i.e. predominantly rhyme and meter.
The poems in the work are typically epyllion-length, that is a short epic, typically around 1k-2k lines long.
Thus far the first volume is complete, including Cain & Abel, Joseph, The Passion, Esther, Ruth, Judith, and Tobit although at this time not published— please check back for an update, or sign up to my mailing list for updates.
