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Standard Midland
Roy Fisher
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Description for Standard Midland
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Roy Fisher is known internationally for his witty, anarchic poetry which plays the language, pleasures the imagination and teases the senses. But he is at heart an English Midlander. 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. Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award in 2010, Standard Midland contains work mostly written since his Bloodaxe retrospective The Long and the Short ... Read more
Roy Fisher is known internationally for his witty, anarchic poetry which plays the language, pleasures the imagination and teases the senses. But he is at heart an English Midlander. 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. Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award in 2010, Standard Midland contains work mostly written since his Bloodaxe retrospective The Long and the Short ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852248703
SKU
9781852248703
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About Roy Fisher
Roy Fisher (1930-2017) published over 30 poetry books, and was the subject of numerous critical essays and several studies, including The Thing About Roy Fisher: Critical Essays on the Poetry of Roy Fisher, edited by Peter Robinson and John Kerrigan (Liverpool University Press, 2000), and of The Unofficial Roy Fisher, edited by Peter Robinson (Shearsman Books, 2010). He published four ... Read more
Reviews for Standard Midland
'Standard Midland is an honest appraisal of what it is possible to say, and what remains to be said, by an artist in old age. It finds Fisher at his most approachable and makes an excellent introduction to this important poet's work' - Paul Batchelor, Guardian. 'Witty, profound and moving meditations on loss and ageing; a wonderfully varied testament to ... Read more