
The Long and the Short of It: Poems 1955-2010 (Revised)
by Roy Fisher
Title:
The Long and the Short of It: Poems 1955-2010 (Revised)
Author:
Roy Fisher
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
432 pages
Publisher:
Bloodaxe Books
ISBN-13:
9781852249595
EAN:
9781852249595
Classifications:
Poetry
Weight (g):
914
Dimensions (mm):
232 x 158 x 32
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
This new expanded edition of "The Long and the Short of It" covers 55 years of Roy Fisher's poetry. Playing the language, pleasuring the imagination and teasing the senses, Fisher's witty, inventive and anarchic poetry has given lasting delight to his many dedicated readers for over half a century. Choosing this book on "Desert Island Discs", Ian McMillan praised Fisher as "Britain's greatest living poet". "The Long and the Short of It" draws on the entire range of Fisher's work, from its fraught beginnings in the 1950s through major texts of the 1960s and 1970s as "City", "The Ship's Orchestra" and 'Wonders of Obligation' to "A Furnace", his 1980s masterpiece, and and then the later work set in the scarred and beautiful North Midlands landscape where he has lived for the past 30 years, notably the Costa-shortlisted "Standard Midland" (2010), which has been added to this expanded edition.











