| Open Workings Contributor(s): Bamforth, Iain (Author) |
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ISBN: 1857542576 ISBN-13: 9781857542578 Publisher: Carcanet Press OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1996 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 821.914 |
| LCCN: 97131675 |
| Physical Information: 80 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |