Birmingham river /
Fisher, Roy,1930-2017,author.
"'Birmingham's what I think with' : so begins 'Six Texts' for a documentary film about Roy Fisher, made by Tom Pickard in 1991. And 'a slow petty river' - two in fact - that merged and sank out of sight beneath industrialized Birmingham, now lends itself to become the title of this book of poems. 'Six Texts' develops subjects already made familiar in Fisher's earlier work, City (in Poems 1955-1987), and A Furnace (1986). Another commission, for Ronald King's artist's-book-with-puppets, Anansi Company, provides a contrasting group of poems, that give continued evidence of Fisher's anarchic pleasure in identifying the absurd, the self-important, and the politically hypocritical - themes that recur in other poems in this original collection."--Back cover.
Inscribed by the author: " For Gael and Jill, this thin volume with love, Roy, on the longest day".
The Collection of Things -- The Sidings at Drebkau -- The House on the Border -- Our Own -- A Sign Illuminated -- Promenade On Down -- Photographers' Flowers -- The Host -- Going -- Six Texts for a Film -- Talking to Cameras -- Birmingham River -- Town World -- In the Repair Shop -- First Terms -- Abstracted Water -- The Poetry of Place -- Just Where to Draw the Line -- Poem Beginning with a Line by Josephine Clare -- Top Down, Bottom Up -- Seven Figures from Anansi Company -- Dry Skull -- Chicken-Hawk -- Rabbit -- Snake -- Tiger -- Parrot -- Cat -- Every Man His Own Eyebright -- The Ticket-of-Leave Man -- Homage to Edwin Morgan -- Freelance -- English '88 -- In the Visitors' Book -- A Song -- A Working Devil for the Birthday of Coleman Hawkins -- Day In, Day Out -- The Mark -- Upright -- The Mouth of Shade -- Three Stone Lintels at Eleven Steps -- Hypnopaedia -- They Come Home -- Envoi.
"'Birmingham's what I think with' : so begins 'Six Texts' for a documentary film about Roy Fisher, made by Tom Pickard in 1991. And 'a slow petty river' - two in fact - that merged and sank out of sight beneath industrialized Birmingham, now lends itself to become the title of this book of poems. 'Six Texts' develops subjects already made familiar in Fisher's earlier work, City (in Poems 1955-1987), and A Furnace (1986). Another commission, for Ronald King's artist's-book-with-puppets, Anansi Company, provides a contrasting group of poems, that give continued evidence of Fisher's anarchic pleasure in identifying the absurd, the self-important, and the politically hypocritical - themes that recur in other poems in this original collection."--Back cover.
English poetry.