The Citizen and the making of 'City' by Roy Fisher Malika Booker edited by award-winning Sheffield-based writers

edited by award-winning Sheffield-based writers Helen Mort and Rachel Bower

Tom Pickard

pushing thread

so the book's leitmotif is one that stresses the distance between words and worlds – and the way poetry is a language beyond language which we can sometimes only grasp through sound

The Citizen and the making of 'City' by Roy Fisher Malika Booker edited by award-winning Sheffield-based writersWhen Roy Fisher told Gael Turnbull in 1960 that he had started writing like mad and produced a sententious prose book, about the length of a short novel, called the Citizen he was registering a sea change in his work, finding a mode to express his almost visceral connection with Birmingham in a way that drew on his sensibility and a wealth of materials that could last a lifetime. Much later in his career he would say that Birmingham is what I think