Alan Wall: Doctor Placebo

Published 15 October 2010 (available from mid-August)

Paperback, 98pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781848611337

Doctor Placebo finds himself at the end of the western intellectual tradition, and on certain mornings feels almost as old. As a medical practitioner he broods about his patients; as a writer he broods about his poems. Sometimes the two intermingle and he can't remember whether he is a doctor moonlighting as a poet, or a poet moonlighting as a doctor. One thing at least remains constant: moonlight. The end of the western intellectual tradition, like Placebo himself, is insomniac.  

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