NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY, 23RD; 24TH NOVEMBER 2012
Allen Fisher Reading
23rd Nov 2012, 6pm
Gallery North, City Campus, Northumbria University
Poet and painter Allen Fisher read from his work as part of Northumbria University's Allen Fisher Symposium, reading a range of work old and new. Allen's performance was accompanied by short readings from Ira Lightman (empassioned song and dual-voiced poem) and Sophie Robinson (empassioned political verse).
Allen Fisher Symposium
24th Nov 2012, 10.30 to 5.30
Sutherland Building, City Campus, Northumbria University
Speakers included Peter Barry, Ian Davidson, Peter Garratt, Robert Hampson, Ira Lightman, Ann Matthews, Sophie Robinson, Robert Sheppard, Harriet Tarlo, Rhys Trimble. Papers were followed by a Q&A/discussion with Allen Fisher, which included a moving account of Fisher's helpers and shapers.
I talked about his recent text Proposals. I concluded: 'In apprehending Proposals, the viewer and reader are one and the same and the formal complexity that results from imperfect fit requires the same readerly energies of a will towards coherence and logic evoked earlier that is formally undermined by the work.' (A version of the talk may be read here, and here is a piece on Fisher's poetics.)
