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A contrasting group of poems commissioned for Ronald King's artist's book with puppets, Anansi Company , give continued evidence of Fisher's anarchic pleasure in identifying the absurd, the self-important, and the politically hypocritical - themes that recur throughout this original collection. This book is intended for readers of contemporary poetry.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49523131875601,"sku":"GOR002427552","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0192823426.jpg?v=1750843110"},{"product_id":"citizen-book-roy-fisher-9781780375960","title":"The Citizen","description":"The Citizen is an early prose work relating to Roy Fisher and his native city of Birmingham  previously thought to have been lost  which was the precursor of City, his signature collage of poetry and prose including prose sections from The Citizen. 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Opening with new poems written during his 80s - since his Costa-shortlisted collection Standard Midland (2010) - the book's second section is a gathering of uncollected poems mainly written during the 1960s, though occasionally foreshadowed later in the previous decade, while the third part contains poems, similarly uncollected, written in the 1950s. 'I describe the poems in sections two and three of this book as neglected,' Roy Fisher writes in an afterword. 'I must emphasise that these poems have not been passed over or slighted by publishers, editors or reviewers: indeed my work always seems to me to have had as much attention as it deserved or was likely to get. The neglect has been entirely mine.' Fisher's Collected Poems 1968 from Fulcrum was a carefully constructed volume whose cut down selection was carried over into later retrospectives: 'The cut material was left to lie more or less unexamined again until now.That turn of events furnishes the majority of the neglected items in the present volume. There's an element of what could better be called habitual negligence that also has a bearing.' Peter Robinson produced and ordered the texts of Slakki in response to instructions and advice from Roy Fisher. 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For all his registration of the built and of material history, Fisher is equally attentive to the shape of clouds, 'the massing of a mood, ' the gods one might have thought departed. One finds here as well a rerouted pastoral, an unsentimental pathos, a profound tenderness--for an old working woman on the street, for Fisher's own humble ancestors, for the figure of Achilles, brick, tarmac, warehouses, hillsides, specific rivers, the masses of men and women estranged from their own conditions and histories. For all his forging fire, the poet emerges as akin to the quality of light he catches, 'a pressing \/ medium, steady to a purpose.' To think that in Thatcher's England, Fisher was writing A FURNACE: forged, incised, in which 'a brilliance strikes out perpetually.'--Maureen N. 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