Spaces Between the Trees, Enos Watts’s long-awaited new collection, displays the craft and intelligence that has made him one of Newfoundland’s most respected poets. His previous volumes, After the Locusts and Autumn Vengeance, are distinguished by supple poetic technique and a clear-eyed, compassionate view of the world. In this new collection, his first in nearly twenty years, Enos Watts continues this exploration. The poems cover wide-ranging themes and styles, but there is special emphasis on the natural world, family, and isolation. Erudite, meditative, personal, and marked by great depth of feeling, Spaces Between the Trees is a moving, vital collection from one of Newfoundland’s finest writers.

Born in Long Pond, Manuels, Enos Watts was a schoolteacher and administrator for more than 20 years. An innovator in curriculum development, he served on the Newfoundland and Labrador committee of the Canada Studies Foundation, co-authoring a number of pilot texts. His poems have appeared in such literary periodicals as The Antigonish Review, Contemporary Verse 2, Event, The Pottersfield Portfolio, and Waves. His work has been published in local, regional, national, and international anthologies, most recently in the 2-volume Irish–Newfoundland and Labrador collection. He has written book reviews and edited many manuscripts during the past 30 years. He resides in St. John's with his wife, Golda, and daughter Jade.

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