| In Folly's Shade Contributor(s): Welch, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 1848616198 ISBN-13: 9781848616196 Publisher: Shearsman Books OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Physical Information: 0.26" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.32 lbs) 108 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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.
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Contributor Bio(s): Welch, John: - 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). |