The Geometer's Dreams

Jamie Inglis is a poet and doctor from Edinburgh. The Geometer’s Dreams was his first collection of poetry. Poems about travelling near and far, of times, places and who we are. Poems about the unexpected and the unexplained and about wars fought in our name. Poems of new words embedded in the web. He has worked and published on a wide range of public health issues including HIV, cancer, immunisation, tobacco, drugs and obesity. He had his first poems published aged ten and after qualifying in medicine returned to writing poetry in the early 1980's. the geometer’s dreams was first published in 1992. His poems reflect his interests in people, pacifism, politics, travel, science–fiction, the world we live in and the world we are creating. After travelling round the world five times he still lives in Edinburgh.