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Allen Fisher
Biography
Allen Fisher... involved in performance and installation art since 1970. A poet, painter, publisher, editor and art historian, has produced over one hundred and thirty chapbooks and books of poetry, graphics and art documentation. Editor of Edible Magazine, co-ed of Aloes Books and New London Pride and edits Spanner, lives in Hereford and Crewe. Works at the Manchester Metropolitan University Cheshire, Alsager, where he is Professor of Poetry & Art and Head of Contemporary Arts. Has exhibited paintings in many shows including a one-man show in London in 2003, retrospective shows at York in 1993 and at the Hereford City Art Gallery and Museum in 1994. Examples of his work are in the Tate collection, London, the King's College Archive, London and the Living Museum, Iceland, as well as private collections in Australia, Britain and the USA. His last three books were PLACE (2005) Reality Street; ENTANGLEMENT (2004) The Gig, Ontario; GRAVITY (2004) Salt Publications, West Perth, Australia and Cambridge.
In need of updating is his web, which includes a bibliography.
Recordings
- 'Olique'
- 'Over the Top'
- 'Pecking'
- 'Slob'
- 'Stamping Sequence'
- 'The Giant Slits'
- fisher-allen_The-Giant-Slits_brunel_2005a.mp3
- from 'Gravity as a Consequence of Shape'
Bibliography
- PLACE (Reality Street, 2006), ISBN: 1-874400-28-8. Place was named by Iain Sinclair as one of the 'Books of the Year' in The Guardian (26 November)
- ENTANGLEMENT (Willowdale, Ontario, Canada: The Gig, 2004), 280pp, ISBN: 0-973587-50-4
- GRAVITY (Salt Publishing, 2004), 280pp, ISBN: 1-844710-34-3
- and from the superb Stem a CD: GRAVITY SHAPES
His work was talked about a lot recently (2006) in Robert Sheppard's Liverpool U.P. book The Poetry of Saying and in Tony Lopez's Salt book Meaning Performance.
Sample Text
SPINOR is included in his most recent book: singularity stereo from Barque Press:
SPINOR
Reverse thrust heard
across lake from
behind mountain
indicative of a
storm travels towards
hearers another
spot of rain on
storm edge felt on
an arm before it lifts
to empty a vodka sunshine
flies bring squint
seen and then felt
prepare a scum of oil
respect for indenture and taut song
stains intact.
Lulled into false
expectation
run out of comfort
bin through mud
The Ecologist
Draws foresight scenarios
Fizz lifts weight
Trapped in ice over thousands of years.
fly dizziness distils fuss
mirage intra merrygo
hottest year
since measurement began
The horizon arm
refines thought
about entities and phenomena
stare the many sundrops pavement
importance of benchmark of anthropogenic
climate change climate sensitivity
Intact fear before refusal of violence
thought and infinity a
sponge of universe
systematic exploration of uncertainties
the complex variety of processes
that actually determine climate sensitivity.
In bed the weather man
gives up
the ghost
the fainter burnishes wheel
'a fielded capability'
groove this way and that arm
in his head
strictly imaginary
storm pull anger
the flappable impulses of hafnium dioxide
or strontium titanate shifts
of white light to deep blue
conductivity to insulation
Then she noticed the plant not carrot
but bachelor's button thriving
in bed of onions and buckwheat
he sits in the corner of the house
rafter thoughts released
bitten
cat whiskers moment
spread in surface warming
predictions dominated by process
uncertainties burned then
wheel strain in scree
the fast departed grip
Local Stunfire 2.31 17.08.04
grooves through at last
other occupants come go
Shang Hai and Kuala Lumpur, in and
out on jets via Heathrow
beneath them pears thud
the lawn around a woodpecker.
In the fruit garden, spurt
then drops beyond
the margin innovation
weight felt
remedy shifts twists
on broken rationale.
Sound of voices from Uyghur and Uzbek
demanding not clearing.
news of floods Cornwall and Bangladesh
shack the horizon
drenched catalpa
papered over wall
centre of the garden just below
blossom all over the path and
dotted shadow line from clothes pegs
turn glisten of damaged daisies
into a sequence torn and push-in
pointed pungent invisible,
he sits in the corner of the house
pin rides in awe wonders
Another part of the same garden
stress recorded marks grass.
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