Open Workings (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781857542578)

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.


Author: Iain Bamforth
ISBN-10: 1857542576
ISBN-13: 9781857542578
Publisher: Carcanet Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1996
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback