In Folly's Shade

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John Welch

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The title sequence in John Welch's new collection evokes early life experiences, some traumatic - material that had previously featured in his prose memoir Dreaming Arrival (Shearsman 2008). In Folly's Shade also brings together for the first time thirty unrhymed sonnets, dating mainly from the 1970s. Whether suggesting the light ancient coinage can shed on contemporary politics or moving through and reflecting on urban landscapes, there is throughout the book a recurring preoccupation with the ambiguities involved in the business of being a poet and above all the sheer oddness of us as a species inveigled into language and unable to get out of it.

Author Biography:

Born in 1942, John Welch lives in Hackney in East London. Shearsman published his 'Collected Poems' in 2008 and since then there have been two further collections. Previous collections had appeared from Anvil, infernal methods and Reality Street. He has regularly published reviews and articles in magazines including The London Review of Books, fragmente, The Poetry Review, The Reader, PN Review. His anthology, Stories from South Asia appeared from OUP; recently he has worked closely with the London-based Iraqi poet Abdulkareem Kasid on English versions of his poems and these were collected in 'Sarabad' (Shearsman, 2015).

Release date Australia

October 19th, 2018

Author

John Welch

Pages

108

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Dimensions

140x216x7

ISBN-13

9781848616196

Product ID

28451330

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