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The Weeping Degree: How Astrology Saved Me From Suicide
What do dead girls need in the afterlife? They need the poems of Kelly Watt so that the daffodils will return to run rampant over the ground with their crazy yellow hope.
—Paul Lisson, poet and editor of HAL, Hamilton Arts & Letters Magazine.
The Weeping Degree is a raw and edgy collection of poetry and prose navigating the soul’s journey from tears to triumph.
From its opening pages, readers of Kelly Watt’s gritty poems are taken on a hero’s journey—following the ripple effect of childhood sexual trauma as it transforms throughout a lifetime from a wound to a gift.
Divided into three captivating “The Home for Little Girls,” “The Buddha and The Pink Futon,” and, “Hands Across the World,” the poems in The Weeping Degree traverse the globe from the shadows of foster care in a bland North American suburb, to a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Nepal.
Written for poetry lovers, spiritual seekers, astrology aficionados and mental health advocates alike, this collection will take you on a novelistic odyssey, a profound healing road, where poetry is a sacred art, a place where our deepest sorrows are transmuted through imagination and creativity to self-acceptance and joy.
—Paul Lisson, poet and editor of HAL, Hamilton Arts & Letters Magazine.
The Weeping Degree is a raw and edgy collection of poetry and prose navigating the soul’s journey from tears to triumph.
From its opening pages, readers of Kelly Watt’s gritty poems are taken on a hero’s journey—following the ripple effect of childhood sexual trauma as it transforms throughout a lifetime from a wound to a gift.
Divided into three captivating “The Home for Little Girls,” “The Buddha and The Pink Futon,” and, “Hands Across the World,” the poems in The Weeping Degree traverse the globe from the shadows of foster care in a bland North American suburb, to a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Nepal.
Written for poetry lovers, spiritual seekers, astrology aficionados and mental health advocates alike, this collection will take you on a novelistic odyssey, a profound healing road, where poetry is a sacred art, a place where our deepest sorrows are transmuted through imagination and creativity to self-acceptance and joy.
114 pages, Paperback
Published August 8, 2024
About the author
Kelly Watt
4 books4 followersKelly Watt's short stories, poetry and non-fiction have won awards and been published internationally. Her first collection of poetry, The Weeping Degree will be published by Wild Rising Press and available on Amazon August 21, 2024. She has published two other books: the gothic novel Mad Dog, originally published by Doubleday Canada, and now in the US with Hamilton Stone Editions (2019); and the mini travel companion, Camino Meditations: 30 Mindful Walking Meditations to Conquer Addiction and Cultivate Joy, also with HSE (2014). She has lived in 5 countries but now makes her home outside Hamilton with her husband, and four diligent chickens.
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September 17, 2024
Kelly Watt’s poems and prose shatter innocence. Her powerful imagery plucks at heartstrings and provides an emotionally charged ride with steep highs and deep lows, not unlike a roller coaster. The Weeping Degree will steal your breath and make you pray for catharsis. Poignant and gut-wrenching.
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