The Citizen: and the making of 'City'

by Roy Fisher

Peter Robinson (Editor)

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When Roy Fisher told Gael Turnbull in 1960 that he had ‘started writing like mad’ and produced ‘a sententious prose book, about the length of a short novel, called the Citizen’ he was registering a sea change in his work, finding a mode to express his almost visceral connection with Birmingham in a way that drew on his sensibility and a wealth of materials that could last a lifetime. Much later in his career he would say that ‘Birmingham is what I think with.’ This ‘mélange of evocation, maundering, imagining, fiction and autobiography,’ as he called it, was written...Read more
  • ISBN10 1780375964
  • ISBN13 9781780375960
  • Publish Date 24 February 2022
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Bloodaxe Books Ltd