
.As If Everything Were A Miracle’, is Peter Watkins second published collection of poems with Eye Wild Books. The poems were written during the Covid Pandemic of 2020/21 and reflect deeply on the consolations of the natural world. Seen through a wider lens they are an exploration of what it means to be human and our interconnection with the more than human world.
Published December 2021 available to order now at £10.00 (plus postage and packing).
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This beautifully produced and illustrated book is almost overwhelming in its simplicity. The poems lack all poetic pretensions but the images and thoughts sparkle like dew on the grass in the early morning. Each of these poems is the fruit of one man's solitary walks and meditations and are unlike any other poetry in their immediacy
James Roose Evans, author of: Older - A Thought Diary; Inner Journey Outer Journey; A Life Shared; and Blue Remembered Hills.
The books as objects, apart from content, are a delight!! thank you, James
Published December 2021 available to order now at £10.00 (plus postage and packing).
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This beautifully produced and illustrated book is almost overwhelming in its simplicity. The poems lack all poetic pretensions but the images and thoughts sparkle like dew on the grass in the early morning. Each of these poems is the fruit of one man's solitary walks and meditations and are unlike any other poetry in their immediacy
James Roose Evans, author of: Older - A Thought Diary; Inner Journey Outer Journey; A Life Shared; and Blue Remembered Hills.
The books as objects, apart from content, are a delight!! thank you, James

This is the second publication by the Aldeburgh Arts Club Artists’ Collective, our previous book was called 'Look Out Locked In.’ The idea for this book came from a conversation some of the Aldeburgh Arts Club members had during one of our Zoom meetings as we continued through the second national lockdown. The topics I chose were Trees, Birds, Water, Change, Hope and Heritage. All essential to our well-being as humans living on this extraordinarily beautiful, rich and diverse shared planet. It culminated in an exhibition of some of the artwork produced, at the Aldeburgh South Lookout Tower in August 2021. Price £10.00 (plus postage and packing).
What an absolutely WONDERFUL book you have published, The idea of letting each artist get the chance to explain their background and the philosophy and insights behind such a wide variation of beauty! I think you have found a structural key for many books to come - where we get to know the artists on several levels, which again gives us a deeper understanding of the artworks.
Jan Christian Mollestad. Filmmaker & Writer, Mollywood Productions.
Look Out Locked In' is a beautifully illustrated A5 book of artworks with 119 colour pages. It is a collaboration between sixteen members of the Aldeburgh Arts Club luncheon group. Artists, poets, writers, bookmakers, potters, herbologist and makers, who came together in the spring of 2020 on zoom. They were set a subject matter for a period of eight weeks in which they could express in whatever creative form they might be inspired to use, story, photography, painting,drawing, journaling,poetry, exploring what it feels like to be in Lockdown and self isolating during this strangest of times.
A limited edition of 90. Price £10.00 (plus postage and packing). |

A sense of place has always been crucial to my writing. I was born in Pakefield, Suffolk, a coastal village at the southern end of the then thriving fishing port of Lowestoft - Norse names and on-shore fisher folk - in a house as close to the sea as could be, on a marly, sandy shifting cliffside, which is now a slope of a walk, to a shingle shift, seakale and no fisherfolk in sight, of the ever raging sometime calm, pigeon blue grey, chilly north sea.
My earliest memory is of the sun rising from an unusually calm blue summer's dead calm sea, my playground one of light, air and pebbles, the shingles shifting sound, ozone and bird call and salty seawater stinging and stimulating, or buoyant, uplfiting, when immersed in it's sandy softness. An unsure, on shore sort of world, certainly one of beauty. Water, nature, art, love and loss, family, to immerse within, to contemplate, to be balmed by - and that which still informs my writing. Kneeling In Dust was published 15th October 2020.
Price £8.00 plus postage and packing
Click here to listen to Gillie performing 'Kneeling In Dust'
Click here to listen to Gillie performing 'Restaurante Avero Porto'