Review
Roy Fisher's talk is a valuable companion to his poetry, but even in isolation INTERVIEWS THROUGH TIME makes an excellent read, a fine view of someone handling his topographical and intellectual circumstances with honesty and insight in a largely self-made vocabulary. It divides his career into four sections and some of the long later interviews are cut up and sectioned according to which period is under discussion, which works well, especially as the various interviewers make different demands so we get varying perspectives over the same events. Peter Riley, 'Poetry Quarterly Review
John Goodby in Acumen
...an essential addition to a body of criticism which contains little that is hagiographic and much that is of the very highest order.
Stand
...this book is a valuable addition to his oeuvre.
Product Description
Excerpts from several interviews conducted throughout the author's career and spliced together to form a coherent narrative of his development and his aesthetic. The book also includes an autobiographical piece on Fisher's early years as well as other short prose pieces that are otherwise unobtainable. Essential to an understanding of Roy Fisher's work as a poet.
About the Author
Roy Fisher was born in 1930 and lives in Derbyshire. Active as a poet since the early 1960s, he is widely regarded as one of the finest poets in England writing in the modernist tradition. His Collected Poems were published by OUP, his New and Selected by Bloodaxe.
