Birmingham River

by Roy Fisher

Birmingham River is Roy Fisher's first book of poems since Poems 1955-1987, published by OUP in 1988. Including a sequence of Six Texts for a Film', which provided the basis for an Arts Council film made by Tom Pickard, the collection contains much varied work, and a warmer, more relaxed tone than previous collections. Beginning with the premise that Birmingham's what I think with', the central group of poems describe a slow petty river' - two, in fact, as they merged and sank out of sight beneath industrialized Birmingham. 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192823426
• ISBN13: 9780192823427
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 62 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.4" x 8.5"