Interviews Through Time And Selected Prose
by Roy Fisher
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Poetics. A kind of biography in poetics, INTERVIEWS THROUGH TIME AND SELECTED PROSE weaves disparate threads into a narrative guide to the life and work of British poet Roy Fisher. Fisher's intelligent, candid voice comes alive in this carefully edited selection of interviews from 1975 to 1998; the picture is filled out by an autobiographical piece that covers the poet's early years, by Fisher's own tongue-in-cheek review of his last collection, and by five of the Talks for Words that he show more recorded for the BBC in the late 1970s. Writing in Poets of Britain and Ireland since 1960, Deborah Mitchell lauded Fisher's ability to combine an openness to a wide range of international and modernist influences with a scrupulous honesty towards his experience and a healthy distrust of the bogus and the metaphysical. SPD also carries Fisher's chapbook IT FOLLOWS THAT. show lessTags
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Roy Fisher was born in Birmingham, England on June 11, 1930. After studying at Birmingham University, he taught at Bordesley College, Birmingham, and Dudley College in the Black Country. From 1972 until his retirement in 1982, he taught American studies at the University of Keele. He was a poet who published numerous collections of poetry show more including The Ship's Orchestra, The Cut Pages, The Thing About Joe Sullivan, The Left-Handed Punch, Birmingham River, The Dow Low Drop: New and Selected Poems, and Standard Midland. He received the Cholmondeley award for poetry in 1981 and a fellowship of the Royal Society of Literature in 2005. He was also a jazz pianist. He died on March 21, 2017 at the age of 86. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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