Paperback. 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" which make up the Paris sequence "Impediments". Away from the city, the series of narratives of patients based on his experience as a country doctor in the south west of Scotland, and the harsher poems set in a mining town in the Australian outback contribute to a social history of their communities as they examine how a rural doctor can negotiate against the sheer weight of common sense. 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" which make up the Paris sequence "Impediments". Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Title: Open Workings (Paperback)
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd, Manchester
Publication Date: 1996
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1857542576
ISBN 13: 9781857542578
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new

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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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