Number Poems
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- ISBN 9781784102203
- Dimensions: 146 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 29 Sep 2016
- Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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.
Matthew Welton was born in 1969 in Nottingham, where he now lives and teaches at the University. He is the author of four previous books with Carcanet, and a number of pamphlets from smaller presses. His poems take a playful approach to poetic form, and much of his writing has been made in collaboration with composers, artists and other poets.
Author photo credit: Jack Tinney.
