The Citizen and the making of 'City' by Roy Fisher Lars Amund Vaage whose own parents came to

whose own parents came to England from the Punjab in the 1950s

Barry Hill’s tenth book of poetry selects from his Naked Clay: Drawing from Lucian Freud

all the while seeking to move towards a place of deeper reflection and stillness away from the noise and distraction of the daily business of being alive

The world she creates is suffused with surreal images and uncanny incidents

‘… the technical resources deployed remain consistently highly coloured and deft in execution

The Citizen and the making of 'City' by Roy Fisher Lars Amund Vaage whose own parents came toWhen 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