Open Workings
Open Workings

Open Workings

POETRY

80 Pages, 5.5 x 8.5

Formats: Paperback

Paperback, $14.95 (US $14.95) (CA $22.95)

Publication Date: January 1996

ISBN 9781857542578

Price: $14.95
 
 

Overview

Iain Bamforth's third collection applies carnival licence to various kinds of histories: personal, symbolic, ethnographic, social—even to a history of representations in the 101 epigrams and “autographemes” that make up the Paris sequence “Impediments.” Away from the city, the narratives of patients based on his experience as a country doctor in the south west of Scotland, and the poems set in a mining town in the Australian outback, contribute to the social history of their communities as they examine how far a rural doctor—“a fortunate man” in John Berger's phrase—can negotiate against the sheer weight of common sense.
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