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Poetry. Edited by August Kleinzahler, SELECTED POEMS presents the remarkable range of Roy Fisher's restless and exploratory poetry. Stripped of ornament, skeptical in temperament, these poems find music in sudden disruptions, hesitations, and silences. They often move through post-industrial landscapes of Birmingham and the English Midlands, registering crepuscular half-tones, "the dog odour / of water, " and "malted-milk brickwork." Beyond su...

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This volume contains excerpts from several interviews conducted throughout the author's career and spliced together to form a coherent narrative of his development and his aesthetic. The book closes with two full-length interviews, conducted by Peter Robinson and John Kerrigan. Essential to an understanding of Roy Fisher's work as a poet.

Published to coincide with the poet's eightieth birthday, An Unofficial Roy Fisher is a showcase for the work of this extraordinary contemporary British poet. It begins with an unofficial gathering of poems and prose pieces covering the writer's entire career, none of which are to be found in The Long and the Short of It: Poems 1955-2005, his most recent collected edition. This is followed by a poet's poets' anthology of works by Fisher's exte...

Expanded edition of Roy Fisher's definitive retrospective edition to which the Costa-shortlisted "Standard Midland" (2010) has been added.

When in his seventieth year Roy Fisher published Interviews Through Time (2000), he added and Selected Prose, which meant in effect three pieces: 'Antebiography', 'Roy Fisher on Roy Fisher' and 'Talks for Words'. The enlarged second edition of Interviews Through Time (2013), a volume of interviews only, made it possible for those three pieces to join many others in this first substantial gathering of Roy Fisher's occasional prose writings. An ...

This book provides an overview of education as it is represented in popular culture, together with a framework through which educators can interpret these representations in relation to their own professional values and development. This framework also links the portrayal of teachers with on-going educational and political discourses.Demonstrating how popular culture both reflects and constructs social and professional ideas about the teacher,...

Fisher's 4th book of poetry for Bloodaxe, with new works and old ones not collected in his retrospective.

This book provides an overview of education as it is represented in popular culture, together with a framework through which educators can interpret these representations in relation to their own professional values and development. This framework also links the portrayal of teachers with on-going educational and political discourses.Demonstrating how popular culture both reflects and constructs social and professional ideas about the teacher,...

Roy Fisher is known internationally for his witty, anarchic poetry which plays the language, pleasures the imagination, and teases the senses. In Standard Midland, he confronts and worries at nuances of perception and the politics of understanding. Many of the poems are concerned with landscapes: experienced, imagined, or painted, particularly the scarred and beautiful North Midlands landscape in which he has lived for nearly thirty years. Roy...

War is fought by young men - often interrupting the prime of their lives. The Lucky Bastard Club is a vivid image of such a man. His tools were not only his airplane and training, but also his faith, his character, his sense of humor, and - most of all - his deep and abiding love for a cute little, blue-eyed brunette - his wife, Joyce. The combination of combat experiences, love and romance, and poignant autobiography reveal a tale of commitme...

War is fought by young men - often interrupting the prime of their lives. The Lucky Bastard Club is a vivid image of such a man. His tools were not only his airplane and training, but also his faith, his character, his sense of humor, and - most of all - his deep and abiding love for a cute little, blue-eyed brunette - his wife, Joyce. The combination of combat experiences, love and romance, and poignant autobiography reveal a tale of commitme...