| Roy Fisher (b. 1930) grew up in Birmingham and was educated at the local grammar school and Birmingham University. He worked as a teacher of English in schools and colleges, including latterly the University of Keele, Staffordshire. Since 1982 he has been a freelance writer and jazz musician. First published in the 1950s, Fisher's work from the beginning was outside the English poetry mainstream, looking instead towards Europe and America, and the Black Mountain poets in particular, for inspiration. Over the course of half a century, however, Fisher's elusive, skilful poems have become increasingly recognised, so much so that his 1986 book, A Furnace, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, The Thing About Joe Sullivan a PBS Choice and the most recent editions of his collected poems have appeared from Oxford University Press and Bloodaxe.
1 At the Grave of Asa Benveniste 3.30
2 The House on the Border 1.45
3 Near Garmsley Camp 2.07
4 3rd November 1976 1.20
5 They Come Home 2.47
6 Hypnopaedia 0.52
7 Top Down, Bottom Up 2.01
8 Abstracted Water 1.59
9 Birmingham River 3.23
10 The Host 0.52
11 Promenade On Down 2.04
12 The Collection of Things 2.35
13 The Lesson in Composition 2.33
14 Butterton Ford 0.35
15 The Burning Graves at Netherton 2.55
16 Matrix 8.37
17 The Six Deliberate Acts 5.02
18 Three Ceremonial Poems 3.05
19 Handsworth Liberties 11.32
20 Staffordshire Red 2.05
21 The Trace 1.50
22 The Sidings at Drebkau 2.15
23 Discovering the Form 0.45
24 You Should Have Been There 1.25
25 Processional 1.34
26 Noted 0.52
Total length of the recording 70.00
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