Collected Poems - Welch, John

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Résumé :
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....

Biographie:
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.

Sommaire:
Born in London in 1942 John Welch is married to the artist Amanda Welch and has lived with his family in Hackney for the last fifty years. In 1975 he founded a poetry publishing imprint, The Many Press, producing around a hundred items - pamphlets, some full length collections, as well as two magazines. He has in recent years worked with the Iraqi poet Abdul Karim Kasid and the Punjabi poet Amarjit Chandan on English versions of their work. His prose writings include 'Dreaming Arrival', a personal account of an experience of psychoanalysis....