Standard Midland

"Standard Midland" by Fisher, Roy, published by Bloodaxe Books. Cover; Title Page; Dedication; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Table of Contents; 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.;Roy Fisher is known internationally for his witty, anarchic poetry which plays the language, pleasures the imagination and teases the senses. But he is at heart an English Midlander. In "Standard Midland", he confronts and worries at nuances of perception and the politics of understanding. Many of the poems are concerned with landscapes, experienced, imagined or painted, particularly the scarred and beautiful North Midlands landscape in which he has lived for nearly thirty years. Shortlisted for the 2010 Costa Poetry Award, "Standard Midland" contains work mostly written since his Bloodaxe ret. Book details: 62 pages pages, published 2011;2010. Order now on BookShops.in with fast, reliable delivery across India.