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Place in the World
Iain Bamforth
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Description for Place in the World
Paperback. A Place in the World, Iain Bamforth's fourth collection, is his most lyrical, challenging and considered work to date. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 215 x 10. Weight in Grams: 146.
Written under the sign of Eros, builder and destroyer of cities, and prefaced by an epigraph from Keats, the poems in A Place in the World are about home and antipodes, identity as a shibboleth and institutions as leviathans, Pacific islands and raised beaches, Edens and new Jerusalems, the critical spirit and the need for continuity. Cradling Scotland's stony myths in his palm, the poet sets off for Europe, an old civilisation that can barely reconcile itself to having become a colony of its own Utopia. In his pocket is a battered copy of the civil philosophy, also out of ... Read more
Written under the sign of Eros, builder and destroyer of cities, and prefaced by an epigraph from Keats, the poems in A Place in the World are about home and antipodes, identity as a shibboleth and institutions as leviathans, Pacific islands and raised beaches, Edens and new Jerusalems, the critical spirit and the need for continuity. Cradling Scotland's stony myths in his palm, the poet sets off for Europe, an old civilisation that can barely reconcile itself to having become a colony of its own Utopia. In his pocket is a battered copy of the civil philosophy, also out of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857547603
SKU
V9781857547603
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99-30
About Iain Bamforth
IAIN BAMFORTH has been living in Strasburg with his wife and two children since 1995. In addition to his previous books of poetry with Carcanet, Sons and Pioneers and Open Workings, Verso publish his literary history of medicine The Body in the Library, to be joined in 2005 by a book of essays on medicine and modernity. In his career, ... Read more
Reviews for Place in the World
'I like his rigour and his epigrammatic flair' he is original despite himself.' Robert Nye The Scotsman