Allan Cameron
Author of In Praise of the Garrulous
About the Author
Allan Cameron is a researcher and lecturer at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, and honorary fellow in Screen Studies at the University of Melbourne.
Works by Allan Cameron
Associated Works
Left and Right: The Significance of a Political Distinction (1994) — Translator, some editions — 355 copies, 6 reviews
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1952
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK
- Places of residence
- Nigeria
East Pakistan
Italy
Glasgow, Scotland, UK - Occupations
- sailor
postman
labourer
factory worker
forwarding clerk
hydrographic surveyor (show all 9)
lecturer
translator
editorial director - Organizations
- Vagabond Voices Publishing House
Members
Reviews
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Statistics
- Works
- 12
- Also by
- 3
- Members
- 47
- Popularity
- #330,643
- Rating
- 3.6
- Reviews
- 1
- ISBNs
- 22
- Languages
- 2
Review of the Vagabond Voices paperback (2016)
As the synopsis says, this collection:Poet Allan Cameron is also the publisher, an editor and occasional translator (Italian to English) of the Scottish indie publishing firm Vagabond Voices. His informative Preface to this collection distinguishes between the poems which are "the essence of his aesthetic", "the portrait poems" and the "narrative poems." The variety makes for a constantly changing viewpoint, so there is no standard sort of Cameron poem. They can make wild leaps in topic and imagination. My favorite was still something along the romantic line though, an overview of his life's passage in "Time and My Wife".
I can't really be unbiased about any Vagabond Voices book, they have especially published more Baltic literature in translation than any other publishing house in their Changelings series. I have done some copyediting work for them in the past and hope to do more of such in the future.… (more)