John Welch

Collected Poems

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Produktbeschreibung

Published at the same time as the author's memoir 'Dreaming Arrival' this volume offers a retrospective of over 30 years' work, including as-yet-uncollected poems. This Collected - the latest in a series of large-scale retrospectives from Shearsman Books - demonstrates what many have already recognised: that John Welch's apparently quiet art is a powerfully communicative one.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Shearsman Books
• Seitenzahl: 452
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 729g
• ISBN-13: 9781905700578
• ISBN-10: 1905700571
• Artikelnr.: 23571841

Autorenporträt

Born in 1942, John Welch lives in Hackney in East London. Prior to his first collection from Shearsman in 2004 collections of his poems had appeared from Anvil, infernal methods and Reality Street. In 1975 he founded The Many Press which published many books and pamphlets of new poetry. There was also a magazine, The Many Review. Writings on his personal experience of psychoanalysis appeared in Poets on Writing: Britain 1970-1991 (Macmillan 1992), and in magazines including The London Review of Books and fragmente. Much of this material was subsequently incorporated into his Shearsman prose memoir Dreaming Arrival. Book reviews and articles on a variety of other topics have appeared in The Poetry Review, PN Review, The Reader, Scintilla and elsewhere. For many years he worked as a teacher of English as a Second Language in east London schools and in 1984 an anthology he edited, Stories from South Asiaappeared from OUP. He has worked closely with Punjabi poet Amarjit Chandan on English versions of his poems and some of these appeared in his collection Sonata for Four Hands (Arc, 2010). His Collected Poems appeared from Shearsman in 2008 and since then there have since been further Shearsman collections.