Really interesting collection of prose poems, poems, a play and thought pieces. Plume is an attractive character,his experiences are comic like Chaplin and nightmarish like Kafka as he is buffeted about on his travels. There's a constant sense of the absurd throughout and the Plume sections are the most accessible though I found most of it approachable bar the play 'Drama of the Constructors' which was fairly unintelligible. The 'Postface' with its musings on identity and 'self' was illuminating. Throughout his writing and his life he returns to the idea of living 'against' his environment, all that limits and constrains him. The reader should get a similar sense of liberation from the everyday in these pieces with their black humour and farce. ( )