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The Crossing Fee

  • ISBN-13: 9781847771438
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By Iain Bamforth
  • Price: AUD $24.99
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  • Local release date: 29/04/2013
  • Format: Paperback 80 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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In The Crossing Fee Iain Bamforth re-stages the odyssey of the legendary German hero who falls into a lake in the Black Forest and emerges in the China Sea. Circulating between Europe, the Philippines and Indonesia (where Bamforth worked for five years as a health consultant), the poems sound the ‘plummet and allure’ of life on both worlds. Grounded in myth and also in close observation, The Crossing Fee records a momentous exploration of space and history: ‘For the tides are always bringing / news of something strange.’
Iain Bamforth is a former hospital doctor, a general practitioner, a translator, a lecturer in comparative literature, and a public health consultant. He is the author of The Good European.
'[Bamforth's] work is rich in perceptual acquaintance,making it not only intelligent but also extremely sensual. To read him makes the patterns of our minds richer...' --David Morley, Guardian 'This collection is a joy to read, full of so much nuance, and persuasive language, a permanent wistfulness that never strays into the twee and the constant sense of travel, of movement and growth.' --Matt Macdonald, Scottish Review of Books
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