A Place in the World
A Place in the World

A Place in the World

POETRY

128 Pages, 5 1/4 x 8 1/4

Formats: Paperback

Paperback, $20.95 (US $20.95) (CA $29.95)

Publication Date: April 2005

ISBN 9781857547603

Price: $20.95
 
 

Overview

Written under the sign of Eros, builder and destroyer of cities, and prefaced by an epigraph from John Keats, these poems reflect home and antipodes, the critical spirit, and the need for continuity. Departing from Scotland with a battered copy of the civil philosophy that lends the book its punning title, the poet sets off for Europe. Once immersed in the old civilization he, like the Greek philosopher he seeks to emulate, finds himself in the looming shadow of the cities, still looking for human beings.

Reviews

"Time to recognize a new golden age of Scots literature."  —The Glasgow Herald 


"I like his rigor and his epigrammatic flair....He is original despite himself."  —Robert Nye, The Scotsman

Author Biography

Iain Bamforth is the author of The Body in the Library, Open Workings, and Sons and Pioneers.
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