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Roy Fisher was born in Handsworth, Birmingham, in 1930. Until he took early retirement recently he had worked most of his life in higher education — in English and Drama at Bordesley College of Education and then in American Studies at the University of Keele. What fame he now has is of a paradoxical kind: he is famous for having been largely ignored. Until Oxford University Press published his Poems 1955–19801 when he was fifty, he had been published only by small presses, most of them now defunct — Migrant Press, Tarasque Press, Northern House, Fulcrum Press.
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Roy Fisher, Poems 1955–1980 (Oxford, 1980). Henceforth referred to as Poems.
Donald Davie, “Roy Fisher: An Appreciation”, in Thomas Hardy and British Poetry (London: Routledge, 1973), 152–172,
henceforth referred to as Davie. Eric Mottram, “Roy Fisher’s Work”, Stand Vol. II (1969–1970) No. 1, 9–18, henceforth referred to as Mottram.
See also Deborah Mitchell, “Modes of Realism: Roy Fisher and Elaine Feinstein”, in British Poetry Since 1970, ed. Peter Jones and Michael Schmidt (Manchester: Caracanet, 1980), 125–130;
and J.D. Needham, “Some Aspects of the Poetry of Roy Fisher”, Poetry Nation 5, Vol. Uli (1975) 74–87.
Jed Rasula and Mike Erwin, “An Interview With Roy Fisher”, in Nineteen Poems and an Interview (Pensnett, Staffordshire, 1975), 12–38. The interview was conducted on 19 November 1973 and is henceforth referred to as “Interview”.
Charles Baudelaire, Oeuvres Complètes Vol. III, Petits Poèmes en Prose (Paris: Louis Conard, 1917) 107–112.
Roy Fisher, Consolidated Comedies (Durham: Pig Press, 1981).
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Gregson, I. (1996). Music of the Generous Eye: The Poetry of Roy Fisher. In: Contemporary Poetry and Postmodernism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230379145_11
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