The Citizen and the making of 'City' by Roy Fisher Malika Booker the layering that builds so

the layering that builds so subtly on mystery and ambiguity into a ‘tapestry of strange’

pushing thread

This is a collage of many voices: eager or dispassionate

by which readers are offered the world freshly rendered in words with an utterly uncommon intelligence and sensuousness

In Sentenced to Life

The Citizen and the making of 'City' by Roy Fisher Malika Booker the layering that builds soWhen 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