The Citizen and the making of 'City' by Roy Fisher Malika Booker was an instant success in

was an instant success in her native South Africa

Tom Pickard

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

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

In Sentenced to Life

The Citizen and the making of 'City' by Roy Fisher Malika Booker was an instant success inWhen 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