<p>Published at the same time as the author's memoir<em> Dreaming Arrival </em>this volume offers a retrospective of over 30 years' work including as-yet-uncollected poems. This <em>Collected</em> - the latest in a series of large-scale retrospectives from Shearsman Books - demonstrates what many have already recognised: that John Welch's apparently quiet art is a powerfully communicative one.</p>