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The Long and the Short of It. Poems 1955–2005.

Signed first edition of Roy Fisher's The Long and the Short of It

Roy Fisher1930–2017

First edition. Tall, thick 8vo. 398pp. Glossy pictorial wraps, featuring Maenads banking to refuel over Porthmeor by Dinah Prentice, to cover.
Signed to title page by Author.
Roy Fisher's definitive retrospective collection, marking his 75th birthday. It draws on the entire range of his work, from its fraught beginnings in the 1950s through major texts of the 1960s and 1970s such as "City", "The Ship's Orchestra" and 'Wonders of Obligation' to "A Furnace", his 1980s masterpiece. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature since 2005, Fisher has received the Andrew Kelus Poetry Prize, the Cholmondeley Award, and the Hamlyn Award. "Britain's greatest living poet." –Ian McMillan
special feature
signed
edition
first edition
format
trade paperback
publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
published in
Tarset, Northumberland
publication year
2005
ISBN
1852247010
pagination
398 pages
genre
poetry
language
English
binding state
original binding
condition
fine
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