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The Eastern Boroughs - Welch, John
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The author's fifth major collection, following And Ada Ann, Out Walking, Blood and Dreams and Greeting Want, containing work written over the past six years. A number of the poems in The Eastern Boroughs express a concern with consciousness, the sense of self, and how that self is constituted in writing. This volume was subsequently collected in the author's Collected Poems, also available from Shearsman Books. "These are poems about the inner life with the external concreteness and economy of Imagism... his three previous volumes have won high praise from critics who trust their noses."…mehr

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The author's fifth major collection, following And Ada Ann, Out Walking, Blood and Dreams and Greeting Want, containing work written over the past six years. A number of the poems in The Eastern Boroughs express a concern with consciousness, the sense of self, and how that self is constituted in writing. This volume was subsequently collected in the author's Collected Poems, also available from Shearsman Books. "These are poems about the inner life with the external concreteness and economy of Imagism... his three previous volumes have won high praise from critics who trust their noses." (Herbert Lomas, Ambit) "Welch's explorations of personal inner-space and the outer-spaces of the urban (especially a multicultural London) are inextricably mixed, in poetry which, while often sparsely textured in particular passages, is dense in its larger accumulation of significance. A book that will repay repeated readings." (Glyn Pursglove, Swansea Review) "[The] solitary turning away is part of what makes the poems in The Eastern Boroughs so sad, the split from the beauty of the world that writing and self-consciousness enforce, without which poetry would not exist. Pleasure and melancholy tend to be seeded one within the other, and their intertwining is well-mapped in the ache and beauty of this collection. (James Wilkes, in Terrible Workonline)
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.