Underpinning it is an exquisite balance of pain and beauty - an aspect of the sublime - as Welch brings to vivid life the existence lost to him for ever ... he is surprising us still
John Self, Guardian
The writer who most directly influenced my work ... he makes the reader aware of the magic that is right under his eyes
William Burroughs
Britain's Marcel Proust
The Times
Underpinning it is an exquisite balance of pain and beauty - an aspect of the sublime - as Welch brings to vivid life the existence lost to him for ever ... he is surprising us still
John Self, Guardian
The writer who most directly influenced my work ... he makes the reader aware of the magic that is right under his eyes
William Burroughs
Britain's Marcel Proust
The Times
Underpinning it is an exquisite balance of pain and beauty - an aspect of the sublime - as Welch brings to vivid life the existence lost to him for ever ... he is surprising us still
John Self, Guardian
The writer who most directly influenced my work ... he makes the reader aware of the magic that is right under his eyes