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When in his seventieth year Roy Fisher published Interviews Through Time (2000), he added and Selected Prose, which meant in effect three pieces: 'Antebiography', 'Roy Fisher on Roy Fisher' and 'Talks for Words'. The enlarged second edition of Interviews Through Time (2013), a volume of interviews only, made it possible for those three pieces to join many others in this first substantial gathering of Roy Fisher's occasional prose writings. An Easily Bewildered Child: Occasional Prose 1963-2013 brings together all his rare autobiographical sketches, the memoirs of his life as a jazz pianist, his tributes to musicians, writers, and painters of various kinds, a number of his book reviews, and comments on classic forebears such as John Cowper Powys, Ezra Pound, the Black Mountain poets, and Basil Bunting. All of these writings, as Fisher notes, 'owe their origins to commissions, suggestions or various forms of pressure from friends'. Together they provide a unique guide to the complex sources and influences on such distinctive works such as City, The Ship's Orchestra, and A Furnace as well as Fisher's oeuvre of individual poems.
As Peter Robinson notes in his editor's Introduction, these writings in their various ways provide 'essential aids to those ramblers' who 'choose to stray' among the poetry and imaginative prose of a key contemporary English poet.
Contents
Author Note Introduction Note on the Text I. Antebiography Meanwhile Antebiography Brum Born Talks for Words The Morden Tower My Trip to Brighton Six Towns Memoir of Richard Caddel At the Funeral of Stuart Mills License My Roving Hands II. Roy Fisher on Roy Fisher Poet on Writing Note on The Cut Pages Roy Fisher writes - Handsworth Compulsions Preface to A Furnace Birmingham's What I Think With: Programme Note Reply to Paul Lester Inside A Various Art Roy Fisher on Roy Fisher III. On Poets and Others Death by Adjectives David Prentice The Green Fuse Mary Fitton's Foreshores On John Cowper Powys' Letters Thomas Campion On a Study of Dada On Ezra Pound Debt to Mr Bunting At a Tangent On a Study of Robert Creeley On Kenneth Rexroth's An Autobiographical Novel Gael Turnbull Foreword to Spleen (Nicholas Moore/Baudelaire) Introduction to Jeff Nuttall's Selected Poems Concerning Joseph Brodsky Coat Hanger A Checklist of Roy Fisher's Occasional Prose by Derek Slade
