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Iain Bamforth

Iain Bamforth lives in Strasbourg. His latest publication Scattered Limbs: A Medical Dreambook, a miscellany in which contemporary medicine confronts its origins in philosophy and mythology, is forthcoming from Galileo.

Iain Bamforth's website can be found at www.iainbamforth.com.

Iain Bamforth's work featured in PN Review comprises 15 reports, 10 contributions of poetry, 51 articles, and four reviews, over a period of 41 years. Also available are two reviews of Iain Bamforth's work and five translations by Iain Bamforth.
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Further Reading
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in PN Review 30 (1983) Four Poems
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in PN Review 77 (1991) Three Poems
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in PN Review 85 (1992) A Plain Man's Guide to the Millenium
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in PN Review 90 (1993) Living in a Dry Place An Outback sequence
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in PN Review 97 (1994) Seven Poems
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in PN Review 100 (1994) Five Poems
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 104 (1995) Chekhov in Sakhalin
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 104 (1995) on Amy Clampitt
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in PN Review 105 (1995) Six Poems
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 105 (1995) Underground Man
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 107 (1996) Kafka's Uncle
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 110 (1996) Risking the Metaphor
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in PN Review 113 (1997) Six Poems
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 114 (1997) on George Steiner's essays and fiction
Subscribers only Translation of an Article by Gottfried Benn in PN Review 114 (1997) Goethe and the Natural Sciences (translated by Iain Bamforth)
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 115 (1997) The Human Position
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 116 (1997) Is There Life on Earth?
Subscribers only Reviewed by James Sutherland-Smith in PN Review 119 (1998) on Thomas McCarthy, Gillian Allnutt, Iain Bamforth
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 123 (1998) Learning to Sprawl
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in PN Review 129 (1999) Seven Poems
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 130 (1999) Paris, France: an afternoon with Mavis Gallant
Subscribers only Translation of a Report by Robert Musil in PN Review 131 (2000) Question of Culture (translated by Iain Bamforth)
Subscribers only Translation of a Report by Robert Musil in PN Review 132 (2000) Oedipus in Danger (translated by Iain Bamforth)
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 134 (2000) The Colour of Memory
Subscribers only Translation of an Article by Georg Büchner in PN Review 134 (2000) Writing with a Scalpel (translated with a preface by Iain Bamforth)
Subscribers only Translation of a Report by Denis Diderot in PN Review 138 (2001) My Old Dressing Gown (translated by Iain Bamforth)
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 144 (2002) The E-Word and History with a Big H
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 153 (2003) Iliads of Abject Europe
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 155 (2004) Self-Made Man: Kafka and America
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 158 (2004) Notes from the Sea-Bed
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 163 (2005) The Future of the Walk
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 167 (2006) The Dog It Was That Died
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 181 (2008) On the Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 188 (2009) Catchwords (I)
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 189 (2009) Catchwords II
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 190 (2009) Catchwords (3)
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 191 (2010) Catchwords (4)
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 192 (2010) Catchwords (5)
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 193 (2010) Catchwords (6)
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 193 (2010) The Ayrshire Orpheus
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 194 (2010) Catchwords (7)
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 195 (2010) Catchwords (8)
Report in PN Review 196 (2010) Catchwords (9)
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 197 (2011) Catchwords (10)
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 198 (2011) Catchwords 11
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 199 (2011) Catchwords 12
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 200 (2011) Smell and the Moral Sentiments
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 201 (2011) Stendhal's Syndrome
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 203 (2012) The Pitch Drop Experiment
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 203 (2012) Catchwords 13
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 204 (2012) Catchwords 14
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 205 (2012) Catchwords 15
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 206 (2012) Catchwords 16
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 207 (2012) Catchwords 17
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 208 (2012) Catchwords 18
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 210 (2013) Romanticism and Child Mortality
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 210 (2013) Catchwords 19
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 212 (2013) Catchwords 20
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 213 (2013) Catchwords 21
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 214 (2013) Catchwords 22
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 215 (2014) Insomnia
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 216 (2014) Catchwords 23
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 217 (2014) Catchwords 24
Article in PN Review 218 (2014) Catchwords 25
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 219 (2014) The Upas Tree
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 222 (2015) Catchwords 26
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 230 (2016) Fernando Pessoa in Lisbon
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 236 (2017) Taratantara!
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 237 (2017) Into the Blue
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 239 (2018) Black and White
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 242 (2018) Lou and Fritz
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 248 (2019) Animal Spirits
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 250 (2019) Animal Spirits: 2
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 253 (2020) On the Surface of Events
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 254 (2020) Animal Spirits 3
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 257 (2021) On W.G. Sebald
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 257 (2021) Animal Spirits IV
Subscribers only Reviewed by Kirsty Gunn in PN Review 258 (2021) On Iain Bamforth
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 259 (2021) Fern Fancying
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 261 (2021) Nietzsche’s style guide
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 261 (2021) on Kirsty Gunn and Gail Low
Article in PN Review 265 (2022) Other Tongues:
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in PN Review 271 (2023) ¡Que Viva Mexico!
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