Valerie Lawson makes her solo poetry debut in Dog Watch, a lobor of intensive love from a poet who put hours upon hours into this anthology, and has won awards from the Cambridge Poetry Awards, has won "Best Poetry Troupe" from Doc Brown's Traveling Poetry Show, and has traveled to Europe to study her craft. All of this shows in her anthology Dog Watch. Vivid, lucid imagery jumps off every page and strikes you with its wonderful, lyrical verse. Highly recommended to poetry lovers everywhere, Dog Watch should find itself alongside all great contemporary poetry collections.

—Midwest Book Review