John WelchBorn in 1942, John Welch lives in Hackney in East London. Shearsman published his 'Collected Poems' in 2008 and since then there have been two further collections. Previous collections had appeared from Anvil, infernal methods and Reality Street. He as regularly published reviews and articles in magazines including The London Review of Books, fragmente, The Poetry Review, The Reader, PN Review. His anthology, Stories from South Asia appeared from OUP; recently he has worked closely with the London-based Iraqi poet Abdulkareem Kasid on English versions of his poems and these were collected in 'Sarabad' (Shearsman, 2015). Read More Read Less