Allen Fisher
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Allen Fisher is a poet, painter, publisher, teacher and performer associated with the British Poetry Revival
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Fisher was born in London
and started writing poetry in 1962. His early long project Place was published in a series of books and pamphlets in the 1970s. He worked on a project called Gravity as a consequence of shape from 1982 which he completed in 2007. This was followed by a book of emblems (poem-image-commentary) called "Proposals". As editor of Spanner and "New London Pride", he has published many of the Revival poets. He was also co-editor of Aloes Books. His last retrospective painting show was in Hereford Museum & Art Gallery in 1993. He has over 140 publications in his name consisting of art documentation, poetry and theory. He has been working on a book of essays "Assemblage & Empathy" regarding American Poetry & Art Since 1950 and other essays on poetics.
Fisher is Emeritus Professor of Poetry and Art at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has exhibited widely and his work is represented in the Tate Gallery
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He edits the magazine Spanner.
British Poetry Revival
The British Poetry Revival is the general name given to a loose poetry movement in Britain that took place in the 1960s and 1970s. The revival was a modernist-inspired reaction to the Movement's more conservative approach to British poetry.-Beginnings:...
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Fisher was born in London
London
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and started writing poetry in 1962. His early long project Place was published in a series of books and pamphlets in the 1970s. He worked on a project called Gravity as a consequence of shape from 1982 which he completed in 2007. This was followed by a book of emblems (poem-image-commentary) called "Proposals". As editor of Spanner and "New London Pride", he has published many of the Revival poets. He was also co-editor of Aloes Books. His last retrospective painting show was in Hereford Museum & Art Gallery in 1993. He has over 140 publications in his name consisting of art documentation, poetry and theory. He has been working on a book of essays "Assemblage & Empathy" regarding American Poetry & Art Since 1950 and other essays on poetics.
Fisher is Emeritus Professor of Poetry and Art at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has exhibited widely and his work is represented in the Tate Gallery
Tate Gallery
The Tate is an institution that houses the United Kingdom's national collection of British Art, and International Modern and Contemporary Art...
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He edits the magazine Spanner.
External links
- Allen Fisher Links at "Intercapillary Space" - links to online Fisher poems, reviews, essays and recordings.