Professions by Mike Ferguson

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Following a line of list poems from Whitman through to Carver, Professions began its apprenticeship as a set reflecting on a small range of occupations – undertaken by Ferguson / o n their receiving end – evolving to this sequence of prose poems on a wider world of those who ply differing trades. Unashamed in the use of jobbing puns, linked threads accompany satirical to shrewd views on the art and artifice of these livelihoods. Show more