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There were once more than a thousand men and boys worked at Brandon Pithouse in County Durham. Today the site of the colliery is a green wilderness. John Seed has set out to recover the lost and silent world of Durham pitmen – in the company of Walter Benjamin, Sid Chaplin and Charles Reznikoff. Composed of fragments of recorded speech, parliamentary reports and newspapers, Brandon Pithouse is a book about the experience of labour – about the pain and danger of working underground, about the damage to the human body and about the human relationships created in such conditions. It is a study in the attachments and distances which shape our relationships to place and time, the negotiations required to reconnect ourselves to a world that ceased to exist in the 1990s. It is a set of notes for an unmade Eisenstein film and a footnote to chapter 10 of the first volume of Marx’s Capital. And like any history, it is a ghost story.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Full title: Brandon Pithouse
• Author: John Seed
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100
• EAN: 9780993454707
• ISBN: 0993454704
• ID: 02981984
• Publisher: Smokestack Books
• Weight: 144 g
• Dimensions: 136 × 200 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. August 2016

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