Dancing with Big Eunice - Alistair Findlay

• Paperback
• Condition: Fine
• 83 pages
• Fiction: Poetry

I am a social worker, I hate people. 

I work in Kafka's Castle,

Norman Bates delivers the mail.

The Waste Land is too joyous

to convey the dismay of those

who moil in the public good.

Alistair Findlay confronts the reader with a world in which many are threatened daily by poverty and abuse. Drawing on his thirty years' experience as a social worker, Findlay fluently evokes the unexpected humour, the misguided charity attempts, and the way that society tries to ignore the 'underclass'.

Findlay's poetry powerfully expresses the rage, compassion and frustration of social workers in their battles against apathy and bureaucracy. These poems are for those who want to know what is often hidden behind closed doors.