Interviews Through Time and Selected Prose

Poetics. A kind of biography in poetics, INTERVIEWS THROUGH TIME AND SELECTED PROSE weaves disparate threads into a narrative guide to the life and work of British poet Roy Fisher. Fisher’s intelligent, candid voice comes alive in this carefully edited selection of interviews from 1975 to 1998; the picture is filled out by an autobiographical piece that covers the poet’s early years, by Fisher’s own tongue-in-cheek review of his last collection, and by five of the Talks for Words that he recorded for the BBC in the late 1970s. Writing in Poets of Britain and Ireland since 1960, Deborah Mitchell lauded Fisher’s ability to combine an openness to a wide range of international and modernist influences with a scrupulous honesty towards his experience and a healthy distrust of the bogus and the metaphysical. SPD also carries Fisher’s chapbook IT FOLLOWS THAT.