Dreaming Arrival

Circumventing conventional narratives of trauma and recovery, 'Dreaming Arrival' presents a series of very personal reflections on the writing life set in the context of John Welch's experience of psychoanalysis. Intensely felt, but always retaining a significant degree of scepticism, the book's starting-point was in a journal the writer kept when in analysis and it refers back to an experience of breakdown and hospitalisation thirty years previously. Calling easy notions of creativity into question 'Dreaming Arrival' looks not only at the way 'therapy' affects writing, but also at how the writing may affect the process of the therapy itself.

Info autore

Born in London in 1942 John Welch is married to the artist Amanda Welch and has lived with his family in Hackney for the last fifty years. In 1975 he founded a poetry publishing imprint, The Many Press, producing around a hundred items - pamphlets, some full length collections, as well as two magazines. He has in recent years worked with the Iraqi poet Abdul Karim Kasid and the Punjabi poet Amarjit Chandan on English versions of their work. His prose writings include 'Dreaming Arrival', a personal account of an experience of psychoanalysis.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: John Welch
• Editore: Shearsman Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.04.2008
• EAN: 9781905700561
• ISBN: 978-1-905700-56-1
• Pagine: 224
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Peso: 371 g
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Opere generiche, enciclopedie; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia contemporanea (dal 1945 al 1989)