Twenty-Four Hours

Twenty-Four Hours is a remarkable prose poem meditating on time, memory, and childhood, and one of Stephen Watts’ earliest works. Written in the mid-1970s and published here for the first time, Twenty-Four Hours is an unforgettable burst of lyricism — melancholic yet playful, allusive yet sharp — and a significant work from one of the UK’s most treasured poets.

Designed by Matthew Stuart & Andrew Walsh-Lister