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The Geometer's Dreams
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Jamie Inglis is a poet and doctor from Edinburgh.
The Geometer’s Dreams was his first collection of poetry.
Poems about travelling near and far, of times, places
and who we are. Poems about the unexpected and the
unexplained and about wars fought in our name.
Poems of new words embedded in the web.
He has worked and published on a wide range
of public health issues including HIV, cancer,
immunisation, tobacco, drugs and obesity.
He had his first poems published aged ten and after
qualifying in medicine returned to writing poetry
in the early 1980's.
the geometer’s dreams was first published in 1992.
His poems reflect his interests in people, pacifism,
politics, travel, science–fiction, the world we live in
and the world we are creating.
After travelling round the world five times he still lives in Edinburgh.
The Geometer’s Dreams was his first collection of poetry.
Poems about travelling near and far, of times, places
and who we are. Poems about the unexpected and the
unexplained and about wars fought in our name.
Poems of new words embedded in the web.
He has worked and published on a wide range
of public health issues including HIV, cancer,
immunisation, tobacco, drugs and obesity.
He had his first poems published aged ten and after
qualifying in medicine returned to writing poetry
in the early 1980's.
the geometer’s dreams was first published in 1992.
His poems reflect his interests in people, pacifism,
politics, travel, science–fiction, the world we live in
and the world we are creating.
After travelling round the world five times he still lives in Edinburgh.
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The Geometer's Dreams - Jamie Inglis
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© Jamie Inglis 2019
the geometer's dreams
© Jamie Inglis 1992. All rights reserved.
Second Edition 2007
EPUB First Edition 2019
ISBN 978-1-9995975-8-0
The right of Jamie Inglis to be identified as the author of this work
has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright,
Designs and Patents Act, 1998. No part of this work
may be reproduced without the express consent of the author.
Many thanks to Alex Nisbet for kind permission to reproduce
'Spring' on the front cover and 'Geisha' on the back cover.
Many thanks to Jim Dalziel for kind permission to reproduce
‘Amazed Man’, ‘Boffin’ and ‘Beached Writer’.
All photographs and other images © Jamie Inglis 2019.
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