Description
Matthew Welton is a poet enchanted by form and process. Many of the Number Poems abide by subtle patterns or constraints, creating symmetries in the arrangement of sentences, lines, words, or metrical feet. As with good architecture, however, Welton's rules and methods resist exclamation; rather, they are the framework upon which are established localised ambiances, be they of warmth or dazzlement, the home or the dream. Other sequences, such as the mind-altering 'Melodies for the meanwhile', begin with a palette of words and images and recombine them kaleidoscopically. By adding layers of colour and sound, Welton composes a modulating sensory wave. Even in silence, we do not so much read these poems as perform them.
About the Author
Matthew Welton was born in Nottingham in 1969. He received the Jerwood-Aldeburgh First Collection Prize for The Book of Matthew (Carcanet, 2003), which was a Guardian Book of the Year. He was a Hawthornden Fellow in 2004. Matthew collaborates regularly with the composer Larry Goves, with whom he was awarded a Jerwood Opera Writing Fellowship in 2008. He is a Lecturer in Writing and Creativity at the University of Nottingham.
Reviews
'It arrives with a unique and distinct sensibility; his poems create their own evocative and elusive worlds. There is a kind of relaxed quizzical sensuality running throughout, an easy, compelling confidence.' The Guardian; 'You're unlikely to read anything like it ... poems are rarely so curious, precise and committed to their enquiry.' Jack Underwood; 'A poet who has consistently produced some stunningly beautiful work.' Dave Gorman, the Observer
Book Information
ISBN 9781784102203
Author Matthew Welton
Format Paperback
Page Count 72
Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
About the Author
Matthew Welton was born in Nottingham in 1969. He received the Jerwood-Aldeburgh First Collection Prize for The Book of Matthew (Carcanet, 2003), which was a Guardian Book of the Year. He was a Hawthornden Fellow in 2004. Matthew collaborates regularly with the composer Larry Goves, with whom he was awarded a Jerwood Opera Writing Fellowship in 2008. He is a Lecturer in Writing and Creativity at the University of Nottingham.
Reviews
'It arrives with a unique and distinct sensibility; his poems create their own evocative and elusive worlds. There is a kind of relaxed quizzical sensuality running throughout, an easy, compelling confidence.' The Guardian; 'You're unlikely to read anything like it ... poems are rarely so curious, precise and committed to their enquiry.' Jack Underwood; 'A poet who has consistently produced some stunningly beautiful work.' Dave Gorman, the Observer
Book Information
ISBN 9781784102203
Author Matthew Welton
Format Paperback
Page Count 72
Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
