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GREETING WANT
by
John Welch
ISBN 0 905795 08 3 96 pages Price GBP 6.95
Royal Octavo Cover design by Amanda Welch
Greeting Want comprises a group of sequences written over the last eight
years or so. Some of the poems, while not making direct reference to it,
reflect the poet's experience of psychoanalysis; he contributed a chapter
'Dream and Restoration,' to Poets on Writing, Britain 1970-1991, edited by
Denise Riley (Macmillan, 1992).
Greeting Want offers lucid, gentle, remorseless sequences to remind us of
the 'plenty-in-absence' that may live at the edge of the inner city. These
are talking poems, not solitary or rapt, and they have spent their time
among people: the fantastic, dislocated heroism of migrant children, or the
torsion of passing from a domestic house into the traffic of streets, an
area where 'stone is ground down to a dusty meal of light'. Only a very
fine poet could wonder about his distance from the small heart of an owl,
calling in the city. Our present is where we start from in this writing,
while there is also the brush of bird-flight, occasional goddesses bearing
the work of a past and the horror of 'careful solitudes'. But the mystery
of incorporating others may overcome this undertow as we 'take the bright
couple into us' through the exact reflection of John Welch's true poetry.
John Welch has been a significant figure since the early seventies, and
deserves acclaim.
His own aptly named Many Press has published numerous well-designed
pamphlets...
For my money, Out Walking is the finest volume Anvil have produced.
- James Keery, PN Review.
John Welch's first full-length collection, Out Walking, is a considerable
and consistent achievement. The poems abound with intelligent reflection...
- Rob Sheppard: PN Review
With Out Walking, John Welch has well and truly set off,
and I look forward to following his path as far as wherever it reaches.
- Peter Robinson: Grosseteste Review
Blood and Dreams offers unlimited shelf-life, is flexible enough to continue
to 'give' with repeated readings. As a writer I seek those books which
provoke reverie and
inspire further writing; this is just such a book.
- Martin Hibbert: Memes
Born in London 1942, where he now lives and works, John Welch has published
three full-length collections of poems: And Ada Ann (Great Works Press,
1978), Out Walking (Anvil 1984) and Blood and Dreams (Reality Street
Editions, 1991).
John Welch founded The Many Press in 1975, an imprint publishing new
poetry. He has written widely on South Asian Literature and edited an
anthology Stories from South Asia (Oxford University Press 1988).
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Also available from infernal methods
R. F. Langley, Twelve Poems ISBN 0 905795 03 2
Peter Riley has described reading Langley's poem 'The Upshot': "These are
no longer 'his' moments; they can enter a different life because they are
not trapped in circumstance. The craft of their forming, the traditional
poetic skills of constantly accurate comparison, lift them out of the
particular in their very fidelity to it, and we take them on as
unrecognised instances. It is our job to find them a home."
There are two extensive interviews with R.F.Langley by Bobby Walker in
Angel Exhaust 13 and 14. Langley's poetry was included in Michael Schmidt's
'Calendar of Modern Poetry' for PN Review 100.
Previous publications from infernal methods include A Different Mercy by
Mark Hyatt (now out of print).
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