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03/04/2015

The Language of Bureaucracy

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Ian McMillan explores the language of bureaucracy with Paul Taylor and Heather Phillipson.

Ian McMillan explores the language of bureaucracy with writer and academic Paul Taylor, and poet and artist Heather Phillipson, who reads a new specially written piece.

Ian McMilllan explores the language of bureaucracy with writer and academic Paul Taylor, and the poet and artist Heather Phillipson. Heather was chosen as one of the Next Generation Poets 2014, and she has written a new piece especially for The Verb.

The academic and writer Julie Schumacher has examined the culture of bureaucracy within academia in her novel 'Dear Committee Members', an epistolary novel using Letters of Recommendation.

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