Re/Active Anthology: Future Exiles - 3 London Poets

Literature & Fiction

Catling, Brian

Griffiths, Bill

Fisher, Allen

Poetry

HarperCollins, Publishers

Place: Drafted 22.4.73, comprising most of book 1, place one to thirty-seven, first movement

Travel

Europe

distributed by Serendipity Books

Poetry. The first book-length showing of Allen Fisher's work of the 1990s and 2000s, Entanglement is a meditation on loss, damage and noise, as sources of harm and as sites of unpredictability and creativity. For Fisher, art is transformation, and in these poems - clashing, combining, recombining, moving restlessly from Piers Plowman to Kurt Cobain to genetic engineering - such transformation is ultimately a form of healing.

Entanglement

The Gig

This was the first publication of the complete text (insofar as it can be contained within a set of covers) of Allen Fisher's 1970s project PLACE - including Place Book 1, Becoming, Stane and Unpolished Mirrors. It was published in 2005. This second edition (2016) has had slight corrections to errors but is otherwise the same book in the same cover design. PLACE was Allen Fisher's now somewhat legendary poetic project of the 1970s. Originally published over several years as a series of interconnecting books, virtually all of them now unobtainable, it incorporates influences from Blake, Olson, Pope, Wordsworth, Robert Kelly, Walter Benjamin, Jung, Dickens, Foucault, Wilhelm Reich, Marxism, the Situationists, conceptual art and researches in mythology, linguistics, psychology, mathematics, immunology, topography, zoology and much else - and yet remains unclassifiable.

Place

Reality Street Editions

Allen Fisher is a poet, painter, publisher, editor and art historian. He is Emeritus Professor of Poetry and Art at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has exhibited paintings in many shows, including one-man shows in London in 2003 and in Hereford, 2013. The poems in Gravity as a consequence of shape, composed in the period 1982-2006, were previously issued in many journals and small publications and then eventually in three succinct volumes. This collected edition brings all of the poems from the sequence together for the first time into one volume.

Gravity as a consequence of shape

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