The Allen Fisher Companion

<p>This volume is a long-awaited collection of essays which gives a chance for Allen Fisher’s many admirers to study his work in depth with a group of experts.</p><p>The essays included here cover the range of Fisher’s career. Redell Olsen and cris cheek discuss Fisher’s relations to Fluxus and the documentary. Will Rowe approaches <em>Place</em> in terms of the large-scale poem as a heuristic device a ‘practice of knowledge’. Pierre Joris addresses the important topic of health in Fisher’s work. Will Montgomery considers Brixton as a ‘sounded space’ in the work of Allen Fisher and Linton Kwesi Johnson while Steven Hitchins tackles one aspect of Fisher’s significant engagement with science: fractals as a way of negotiating the discontinuity and noise of everyday life. Robert Sheppard discusses <em>The Apocalyptic Sonnets</em> as the link between Fisher’s two large-scale projects <em>Place</em> and <em>Gravity as a consequence of shape</em>; Scott Thurston offers a close-reading of ‘Mummer’s Shout’ (from <em>Gravity</em>) in terms of its compositional procedures; Clive Bush engages with ‘Philly Dog’ and the political limitations of Deleuze and Guattari; and Calum Hazell explores <em>Sputtor</em> in terms of collage quotation and poetic knowledge. The volume closes with two collaborative pieces: an interview between Fisher Paige Mitchell and Shamoon Zamir and a selection of documents relating to PhillyTalks #19 with Karen Mac Cormack (17 October 2001).</p>