The Long and the Short of It by Fisher, Roy -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Description Roy Fisher: selected bibliography Title Page Dedication CONTENTS I

Wonders of Obligation The Dow Low Drop City Hallucinations A Furnace The Cut Pages The Ship’s Orchestra

The Collection of Things Timelessness of Desire In the Wall The Mouth of Shade The Square House, February Near Garmsley Camp Suppose – Discovering the Form Provision At Once Dusk After Working

III

Epic The Making of the Book A Modern Story ‘Bing-Bong Ladies from Tongue Lane or This Introduction Needs No Poem Sets The Poetry of Place On Not On the Neglect of Figure Composition Paraphrases The Passive Partner Freelance Critics Can Bleed The Dirty Dozen On Reading Robert Duncan and Hearing Duke Ellington Masterpieces in My Sleep The Poetry Promise The Nation Hypnopaedia Irreversible Stop Envoi

Kingsbury Mill Linear Butterton Ford The Thing About Joe Sullivan The Only Image The Memorial Fountain A Sign Illuminated One World The Poet’s Message Mother-tongue, Father-tongue The Sidings at Drebkau The Slink Self-portraits and Their Mirrors Going Day In, Day Out The Sky, the Sea In the Visitors’ Book The Mark Releases Toyland Homilies Aside to a Children’s Tale Some Loss The Time, Saturday Corner The Square House: April White Cloud, White Blossom The Open Poem and the Closed Poem They Come Home

At the Grave of Asa Benveniste You Should Have Been There Songs from the Camel’s Coffin Homage to Edwin Morgan Processional Emblem Every Man His Own Eyebright Staffordshire Red Rules and Ranges for Ian Tyson Poem Beginning with a Line by Josephine Clare Drop on Drop The Ticket-of-Leave Man Style The Toy Epitaph News for the Ear Don’t Ask When I’m Sixty-four The Fisher Syndrome Explained with How to Stay Succumbed And on That Note:

Poem Commuter For Realism It is Writing The Hospital in Winter Wish From the Town Guide The Sign Necessaries Artists, Providers, Places to Go Upright Colour Supplement Pages In Touch 3rd November 1976 The Whale Knot The Host A Poem Not a Picture Chirico Mouth-talk A Debt for Tomorrow Without Location A Song Three Stone Lintels at Eleven Steps Dark on Dark The Lesson in Composition Of the Empirical Self and for Me The Home Pianist’s Companion In the Black Country A Working Devil for the Birthday of Coleman Hawkins Quarry Hills Barnardine’s Reply Just Where to Draw the Line Simple Location If I Didn’t From an English Sensibility The Red and the Black Item

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Interiors with Various Figures Seven Attempted Moves Handsworth Liberties Matrix Texts for a Film Glenthorne Poems The Six Deliberate Acts Diversions It Follows That Metamorphoses 107 Poems Five Morning Poems from a Picture by Manet Three Ceremonial Poems To the Memory of Wyndham Lewis At No Distance Stopped Frames and Set Pieces Works and Days

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Inscriptions for Bluebeard’s Castle Correspondence Top Down, Bottom Up Five Pilgrims in the Prologue to The Canterbury Tales Figures from Anansi Company The Half-Year Letters Also

Studies The Badger’s Belly-mark The House on the Border The Burning Graves at Netherton The Running Changes Cut Worm Promenade on Down A Poem To Be Watched Noted The Least A Grammar for Doctrine The Elohim Creating Adam Leaving July As He Came Near Death Photographers’ Flowers Magritte Imitated Himself Last Poems Report on August Continuity On the Open Side Rudiments Mystery Poems Custom The Intruder The Flight Orator Why They Stopped Singing The Trace Hand-Me-Downs

The Afterlife On Spare Land Somewhere along the Pool Inner Voice On the Wellingtonias at Pilleth On Hearing I’d Outlived My Son the Linguist Little Jazz Target Jumping the Gun Impurities False Winds Sanctuary Syntax Plot A Damp Night The Skyline in the Wall Mirror Dancing Neanderthal At Brough-on-Noe ‘Adjectives’: the Novel; the Movie Shocking Pink Long Ago in a Town in the Provinces Travel Log Of the Qualities Hole, Horse and Hellbox: the Tabernacle Poems Peeling A Masque of Resistances: Dancing in Chains The Run to Brough Stops and Stations Rattle a Cart

NOTES ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Index of titles and first lines About the Author Copyright

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