The Citizen and the making of 'City' by Roy Fisher Lars Amund Vaage the poems have a genius

the poems have a genius for invoking absence

Barry Hill’s tenth book of poetry selects from his Naked Clay: Drawing from Lucian Freud

From close encounters

even generations later

The world she creates is suffused with surreal images and uncanny incidents

The Citizen and the making of 'City' by Roy Fisher Lars Amund Vaage the poems have a geniusWhen 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