Returns /
Returns is John Welch's fourteenth collection since his first full-length volume appeared in 1984. This is writing that reflects on the strangeness of continuing to make poems, 'Like a ball / thrown from an empty hand.' There is the recurring sense of 'an absence, embellished in...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Swindon :
Shearsman Books,
2024.
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| Summary: | Returns is John Welch's fourteenth collection since his first full-length volume appeared in 1984. This is writing that reflects on the strangeness of continuing to make poems, 'Like a ball / thrown from an empty hand.' There is the recurring sense of 'an absence, embellished in the text' carrying on 'Until / It was the page that silenced him'. Along with this there is the expression of an intermittent feeling of ambivalence regarding the business of being a poet, the 'life of it'. Other work in the collection is declarative and of a more direct address.-- |
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| Physical Description: | 71 pages ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781848619326 1848619324 |