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Giles has a long-standing fascination with natural history, medieval texts, folklore and mythology, and has worked as a volunteer in wildlife rehabilitation, specialising in orphaned and injured owls. He is the author of the novel that inspired Mimma- A Musical of War and Friendship, a book of essays on the folklore of natural history, A Witch's Natural History (Troy Books), and a large body of poetic work, both self-published and in literary journals.
'A work of unfailing attentiveness; Watson's poems not only give us a lens to love a wetland, but his witness becomes a way to belong.' Reneé Pettitt-Schipp 'In his intimate rendering of observation and relationship, Watson weaves a multisensory map of sounds, textures, and daily encounters with Eungedup's myriad beings going about the daily business of existence and, in doing so, offers us a new language to comprehend the phenomena of this web of biodiversity.' Nandi Chinna 'Both a luminous testament to the healing power of place and a homage to the fragile beauty of a cherished landscape.' Gail Simmons 'From caterpillars to kookaburras, reed warblers, frogs, bitterns and tiger snakes, Watson's intimate evocation of the complexity of one patchwork habitat, his wet, reedy heartland, is a devotional love song to place. Here is a proper ecologist-nature writer embodying the enduring, unbreakable and ferocious attachment we have to the earth's visceral, complex being. Its thoughtful, tender prose and poems reach deep into the soul. This delightful, affecting book raises the vital importance of the unseen, undervalued yet vibrant places that are the planet's blood.' Miriam Darlington
