The Manager

David Elliott writes: 'The Manager is a long poem of a new kind. In presenting the reader with fictional episodes from the life of one man, it offers an account of the disjunctions and contradictions of modern-day living. Richard Burns has written an epic account of the malaises and compromises of modern life: the price we all of us have to pay for our perceived freedom of the marketplace.

The text bristles with outrage, anger, obsession and romance, with passages of a wry, sardonic humour. The poem gives us characters, puzzles, interactions, dialogue, and, above all, drama. We are all products of our own many pasts, even as we try to recreate ourselves anew. The Manager speaks to all of us with a rare compassion and understanding. It mirrors the difficulties of living within the turbulent contradictions of our post-modern inheritance.'

The Manager was the first book David Elliott and Brad Thompson published when they founded their new firm, Elliott & Thompson, in 2001.

However, eleven years before publication in London, a version of the book was published in Serbian by the Association of Writers of Montenegro, in the translation by Jasna B. Mišić and Vladimir Sekulić.

 

 

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