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ALLEN FISHER

Allen Fisher has been involved in performance and writing poetry since 1962.  A poet, painter, publisher, editor and art historian, he has produced over one hundred and thirty chapbooks and books of poetry, graphics and art documentation.  He currently edits Spanner, lives in Hereford and works at the Roehampton University where he is Professor of Poetry & Art.

He has exhibited paintings in many shows including a one-man show in London in 2003, retrospective shows at York in 1993 and at the Hereford City Art Gallery and Museum in 1994.  Examples of his work are in the Tate collection, London, the King’s College Archive, London and the Living Museum, Iceland, as well as private collections in Australia, Britain and the USA.

His last three books were Place (Reality Street, 2005), Entanglement (The Gig, Ontario, 2004), and Gravity (Salt Publications, 2004).

OLBOLO

1

Punches, both physical to the origin

smug formulas and

Competing correctness

Back up path

and feel that allowed psychoanalysts

engage in end something in book

to offend about the real burglar.

reflection

I am going after these screams

the debate and her book,

Art issue here

under pavement dust

explosive tome to emerge from

automatic some time.

The book is about many physiological

sprayed in Round-up

drawn the media with magnetic force

socialisation contempt for modern controversy

freshnes and blithe arrogance

along joints

and she human nature to hurl brazen insults.

She accuses becomes a drone between

with early success. identi-celebrity terrms of

hill blown and cleared

appalling!  or psyche-zingers, articulates

positions that is something both genders seem

to want to hear this scope of has gone

of common flowers

quite far enough, and doubt that

neoconservative cultural message: men

has become volk of civilization and

in exact i-beams

can take credit for that are powerful too, but

embrace nature are powerful.

Religion and magical heat of the best defenses

a silence flatens

against chaos, have aroused profound displeasure

authors. For one thing, a detached points out,

male napping, "She wasn't taken

palm and mud in pores

attacks are part of conservatism," says

"They against women, revive old stew energy."

Hyperbole, a level of discourse sermons,

vinyl shed roof

headlines. She should be on talk, "In those you

want. These days scientists

women lion beautiful but was based on

in waste land

urinate and far time thought one 1968. More

of a critical book, provides these overview struggle

his staff. partly of a second wave.

expected rest of gain

These days fields of research with funding.

Human mind when fibrosis. Research on private

budget fields, “Fundability is thinking.”

with a friend.

 2

A backyard glass oven store.

A few graduate dishes melt

can make Angel light-galllery.

African villages scope, from

Translate from

initial polishing. This month, many dollars later,

that spectacular success: out a vision

of how the world's largest lives, "In some forms

of the single circle, of theatre-you'll find that

shape

in 1994, haul in rehearsal. And once

to the top of any good. That, I would

say, where it will tilt flow with swords;

Cyclopean eye, rises and musical falls,

allusion to ecodisaster

these are heady own experiences.

ls that world of telescope somewhere-

on top of a 1934 casting of Mound,

they come far enough to a record size

and economy

at it's there. Then they go back 

more because they are a large party,

push edge of hurdles they couldn't get

in dialectic

across above Hawaii's greatest intensity

is always telescope's separate

dilapidated assembly red shell of a Moorish

lift to conserve political

cathedral last week. in Paris, the stage

is bare, will be joined by rock. A two-man

orchestra tunes monstrous twin. Bed

divisions class war

spectators take their places on Southern

Observations-sometimes Brook himself

the first high peak wind. Unearthly Japanese

where decisions count

head, shamans around the world language

production of scopes of similar

African, and the end of the transparent

in perception of difference

that they obtrude collectively, a score.

Five curtain calls later ground-based

concealed vision from multiple

the audience spills out of a tiny

extraordinary real estate office and

interior thought and hot head

"What we can café next door to mingle

with the astronomer simple reinvention

beyond sense participate

other worldly reviews: even the 

logical renaissance,

in consumerism an actual

a decade ago.

where critic-poets feed.

Yet acclaim is one, ‘I'm not interest’

rich people over its fuel cost.

copyright © Allen Fisher