{"product_id":"the-citizen-9781780375960","title":"The Citizen","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis innovative edition brings together previously lost material to chart the genesis of a key work in 20th-century Modernist poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen 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 \u003ci\u003ethe Citizen\u003c\/i\u003e’ 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 with.’ This ‘\u003ci\u003emélange\u003c\/i\u003e of evocation, maundering, imagining, fiction and autobiography,’ as he called it, was written ‘so as to be able to have a look at myself \u0026amp; see what I think.’ \u003cp\u003e All that was known of this work before Fisher’s death in 2017 is that fragments from it had been used as the prose sections in \u003ci\u003eCity\u003c\/i\u003e and that – never otherwise published – it was thought not to have survived. This proved not to be the case, and in \u003ci\u003eThe Citizen and the Making of City\u003c\/i\u003e, Peter Robinson, the poet’s literary executor, has edited the breakthrough fragment and placed it in conjunction with the first 1961 published version of Fisher’s signature collage of poetry and prose, along with a never published longer manuscript of it found among the poet’s archive at the University of Sheffield, and some previously unpublished poems that were considered for inclusion during the complex evolution of the work that Robinson tracks in his introduction. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy offering in a single publication the definitive 1969 text, two variant versions of \u003ci\u003eCity\u003c\/i\u003e, its prose origins in \u003ci\u003eThe Citizen \u003c\/i\u003eand continuation in \u003ci\u003eThen Hallucinations\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as some of the poetry left behind, this landmark publication offers a unique insight into Roy Fisher's most emblematic work. It is supplemented with an anthology of Fisher’s own comments on \u003ci\u003eCity\u003c\/i\u003e and a secondary bibliography of criticism on his profound response to changes wrought upon England’s industrial cities in the middle of the 20th century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Roy Fisher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280130519291,"sku":"9781780375960","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781780375960.jpg?v=1772486442","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-citizen-9781780375960","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}