Happy birthday (yesterday) to Roy Fisher (his eightieth). For which occasion the above Shearsman volume appears. Peter Robinson has done a fine job of editing a collection of unpublished work by Roy together with essays, memoirs and poems by a goodly number of authors (myself included). I won’t single anything out here since the whole thing reads well. It’s not an obligatory nod, more a set of joyful responses. At the back of the book there's a photo of Roy playing the piano, courtesy the archives of Notre Dame University where it was initially captioned: 'John Cage played one piece that consisted of four and a half minutes of silence in his 1980 performance of avant garde music'. This item must be of some amusement to a man who thought he had fallen silent around the time when he published his Fulcrum Collected Poems in 1969.
Saturday 12 June 2010
happy birthday
Happy birthday (yesterday) to Roy Fisher (his eightieth). For which occasion the above Shearsman volume appears. Peter Robinson has done a fine job of editing a collection of unpublished work by Roy together with essays, memoirs and poems by a goodly number of authors (myself included). I won’t single anything out here since the whole thing reads well. It’s not an obligatory nod, more a set of joyful responses. At the back of the book there's a photo of Roy playing the piano, courtesy the archives of Notre Dame University where it was initially captioned: 'John Cage played one piece that consisted of four and a half minutes of silence in his 1980 performance of avant garde music'. This item must be of some amusement to a man who thought he had fallen silent around the time when he published his Fulcrum Collected Poems in 1969.
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