Carl Watts

June 30, 2016

Carl Watts is from Hamilton, Ontario, and holds a PhD in English from Queen’s University. He has taught literature at Queen’s, Royal Military College, and Huazhong University of Science and Technology, in mainland China. Aside from articles, book reviews, and poems, he has published two poetry chapbooks, Reissue (Frog Hollow, 2016) and Originals(Anstruther, 2020), as well as a short monograph, Oblique Identity: Form and Whiteness in Recent Canadian Poetry(Frog Hollow, 2019). His debut full-length collection of critical essays, I Just Wrote This Five Minutes Ago, was just published by Gordon Hill Press.


Works by Carl Watts

Book ReviewsArticles

Book Reviews by Carl Watts

Sinews and Sheaves
By Carl Watts
Published in Reading, Writing, Listening Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 241 (2020): 159-161.
  • Bones by Tyler Pennock
  • Fields of Light and Stone by Angeline Schellenberg
Poem Emporium
By Carl Watts
Published in Reading, Writing, Listening Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 241 (2020): 154-155.
  • A halt, which is empty by rob mclennan
  • The Inflatable Life by Mark Laba
A Knack for Anachronism
By Carl Watts
Published in web format on Canadian Literature‘s website. (Pending print publication.)
  • The Tantramar Re-Vision by Kevin Irie (Author)
  • Vlarf by Jason Camlot (Author)
  • Romantic by Mark Callanan (Author)
Long Monologues
By Carl Watts
Published in Canadian Literature 256 (2024): 148-150.
  • Wild Hope: Prayers & Poems by John Terpstra (Author)
  • Masses on Radar by David O’Meara (Author)
  • South China Sea: A Poet's Autobiography by Ken Norris (Author)
Epic Perceptions
By Carl Watts
Published in Sensing Different Worlds Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 244 (2021): 173-175.
  • Crito Di Volta: An Epic by Marc di Saverio
  • If You Discover a Fire by Shaun Robinson
Minor Revelations
By Carl Watts
Published in Rescaling CanLit: Global Readings Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 238 (2019): 107-109.
  • Book of Annotations by Cameron Anstee
  • The Nonnets by Aaron Giovannone
  • Standing in the Flock of Connections by Heather Cadsby
Reduce Revere Transcend
By Carl Watts
Published in Lost and Found Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 236 (2018): 157-159.
  • Fail Safe by Nikki Sheppy
  • Control Suppress Delete by Angela Hibbs
  • 3 Summers by Lisa Robertson
Poetry
Exploratory Operations
By Carl Watts
Published in Literary History. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 233 (Summer 2017): 149-151.
  • Rag Cosmology by Erin Robinsong
  • Whistle Stops: A Locomotive Serial Poem by Emily Izsak
  • ????? Operación Opération Operation ? ? O??????? by Moez Surani
Poetry
Surrealist Statecraft
By Carl Watts
Published in Meanwhile, Home. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 232 (Spring 2017): 124-125.
  • November's Radio by Steve Noyes
  • Pillow by Andrew Battershill
Poetry Actually
By Carl Watts
Published in Emerging Scholars 2. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 228-229 (Spring/Summer 2016): 238-239.
  • Rom Com by Dina Del Bucchia (Author) and Daniel Zomparelli (Author)
  • The Purpose Pitch by Kathryn Mockler (Author)
Fiction
Questionable Concepts
By Carl Watts
Published in Emerging Scholars. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 226 (Autumn 2015): 128-30.
  • Their Biography: an organism of relationships by kevin mcpherson eckoff
  • abecedarium by Dennis Cooley
  • The Properties by Colin Browne
Contemporary Poetry

Articles by Carl Watts

“a dungeon every night and every day”: The Zany Neo-liberal Subject, Alcohol, and Poetic Agency in Catriona Wright’s Table Manners
By Carl Watts
Published in Canadian Literature 247 (2021): 106-126.