The Number Poems
| By: | Matthew Welton |
| Publisher: | Independent Publishers Group (Chicago Review Press) |
| Print ISBN: | 9781784102203 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781784102210 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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The Number Poems occupies the playful middle ground between tradition and experiment. An innovative and unconventional poet, Welton presents us with poems which fuse techniques like rhyme or iambic metre with a playfully postmodern aesthetic, creating new forms that unfold as sets of variations. Fascinated by poetic form but bored by the idea of writing sonnets or sestinas, Welton peppers his poems with extreme alliteration and crazy mathematical vocabulary to give us a selection box of experiments in working within formal constraints. The Number Poems is all about the formal possibilities of poetry. More importantly, these poems are all about the love of language.