Open Plan - Softcover

Graham Fulton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0956417566 ISBN 13: 9780956417565

Publisher: Smokestack Books, 2011

Synopsis

By the sweat of your brow will you eat until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return. These days most of us earn our daily bread sweating over spread-sheets, agendas and unanswered e-mails. There are 10m office-workers in the UK, sharing over 200m square metres of office space. White-collar workers are the new proletariat. And yet office work has rarely been the subject of poetry. Open Plan is a demented elegy to all the minutes, days and years that slip through a hole beneath our tidy, white collar desks. Graham Fulton writes with wit and compassion of the world of e-mails, post-its, tea-breaks and sickies, of the little rituals, the red tape and the humdrum flexi hours punctuated by moments of mayhem, of those who are here to stay and those who are just passing through, of the things we need to do to stay sane, just to make it through to the next day. Alice in Wonderland meets David Brent. Office workers of the world unite you have nothing to lose but your paper-clip chains.

About this title

About the Author

Graham Fulton has been writing poetry since the 1980s when he co-founded the influential Itinerant Poets performance and publishing group. In the 1990s he was on the editorial board of West Coast Magazine and was joint winner of the prestigious Scotia Bar First of May Poetry Prize. He now runs Controlled Explosion Press. Previous collections include Humouring the Iron Bar Man, This, Knights of the Lower Floors, Ritual Soup and Other Liquids, Inner Circle and Pocket Fugues. He lives in Paisley.

Edition details

• Publisher: Smokestack Books
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0956417566
• ISBN 13: 9780956417565
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 64