Roy Fisher: MA Creative Writing
15th March 2017
I
would say to myself: I am on a number fifteen bus in Birmingham. I am familiar
with the sensibility of Paul Klee or Kokoschka but I’m not familiar with the
places they were at, but I’ll play some perceptual games and I will
de-Anglicize England – which seems to me absolutely essential.
The
only point of using any form is to create freedom forms and not to do things
about the imposition of order on chaos and this sort of rubbish.
As far as I see it, a poem has business to exist, really, if there’s a
reasonable chance that somebody may have his perceptions rearranged by having
read it or having used it. The poem is always capable of being a subversive
agent, psychologically, sensuously, however you like.
Please watch
this video (15mins)
On it he reads:
‘The Thing About
Joe Sullivan’
‘The
Entertainment of War’
‘The Nation’
‘Text for a
Film’
‘Birmingham
River’
‘For “Realism”’
It is Writing’
(all poems you
can find in The Long and Short of It and
in other books; some we shall consider)
Read this
review:
Where AK writes
about ‘Joe Sullivan’ and ‘The Entertainment of War’ and even though (I think) he’s
wrong about ‘The Cut Pages’ and other experiments, it’s a good introduction.
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