Allen Fisher

Appearing on Close Listening with Charles Bernstein, November 29, 2019, in London

Conversation (33:36): MP3

Performed Poetics at Kings College London, March 12-13, 2022

• Reading works by Eric Mottram and others

Media.SAS mirror: MP4

• A round table discussion chaired by Fisher, including Jerome Rothenberg and Charles Bernstein

Media.SAS mirror: MP4

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, December 4, 2010

• Complete reading (25:43): MP3

Reading for Poems for the Millennium III Launch Event, The Other Room, The International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester UK, October 19, 2010

also featured: Jerome Rothenberg, Jeffrey Robinson, and Maggie O'Sullivan

Reading at Furzeacres, Devon UK, June 2006

from Gravity as a Consequence of Shape, Vols. 2 and 3
Introduction by Philip Kuhn

from Leans (vol. 3 of Gravity)

1. Introduction to Leans (1:03): MP3
2. Introduction to Obolo (2:01): MP3
3. Obolo (5:27): MP3
4. Oleke (2:28): MP3
5. Over the Top (1:07): MP3
6. Palmer House (1:42): MP3
7. Papa Doc Walk (0:48): MP3
8. Pasmala (1:32): MP3
9. Pecking (1:35): MP3
10. Untitled (0:46): MP3
11. Sloopy (3:18): MP3
12. Slop (7:01): MP3
13. Spinor (3:28): MP3
14. Sway Back (3:54): MP3
15. Twist (3:38): MP3
16. Twisted Camel and Boogie Stomp (2:11): MP3
17. Untitled (0:13): MP3

from Entanglement (vol. 2 of Gravity)

1. Introduction (0:55): MP3
2. Introduction to Reading (5:30): MP3
3. Introduction to Entanglement (0:52): MP3
4. A Radio Phone (0:55): MP3
5. Jig Walk (1:04): MP3
6. King Sailor (0:55): MP3
7. Lambeth Walk (0:47): MP3
8. Lindy Hop (0:54): MP3
9. Lloyd Hamilton (0:29): MP3
10. Locomotion (1:12): MP3
11. Itch and Jerk (2:24): MP3
12. Mambo (1:50): MP3
13. Madison (2:13): MP3
14. Untitled (1:23): MP3
15. Monkey (1:44): MP3
16. Mouse (0:59): MP3
17. Roach (1:06): MP3
18. Running in Place (1:52): MP3
19. Scronch (7:25): MP3
20. Shimmy, Skate, Tensor and Woodpecker (12:32): MP3

Reading in London, 2005

Zip (3:30): MP3

The text was written by Allen Fisher and treated by Fisher and the composer John Wall in Wall's sound studio in London.

Reading at SUNY Buffalo, February 18, 1998

Complete reading (55:36): MP3

1. Introduction (4:16): MP3
2. Rooster Strut (2:02): MP3
3. African Boog (9:55): MP3
4. Boogie Woogie (4:47): MP3
5. Bop (3:54): MP3
6. Break a Leg(7:32): MP3
7. Nows the Time (2:33): MP3
8. Jitterbug (2:25): MP3
9. Lambeth Walk (0:56): MP3
10. Reflection on the Death of a Friend (0:57): MP3
11. Loyd Hamilton (1:08): MP3
12. Locomotion (0:55): MP3
13. Fish-Tail (1:23): MP3
14. Jersey Bounce Ten (0:27): MP3
15. Jet (0:31): MP3
16. Nodding Donkey(4:50): MP3
17. Dirty Dog (2:06): MP3
18. Pulling Up and Quasi Queen (5:01): MP3

recorded by Chris Funkhouser

Complete reading (42:47): MP3

1. Opening Remarks (2:26): MP3
2. Bel-Air (11:42): MP3
3. Buzzard Glide(5:16): MP3
4. Boogie Woogie (5:43): MP3
5. Grind (3:50): MP3
6. Fish-Tail (4:17): MP3
7. Eagle Rock(4:09): MP3
8. Hebbie Jebbies (5:23): MP3

Reading Scram, London, January 13, 1989

Read as part of Gilbert Adair's Sub-voicive Poetry Series; the reading includes poetry selected from 18 different books in the period of 1970-1983.

1. from Thomas Net's TREE-BIRST (2:08): MP3
2. "The Southampton Listener" (2:41): MP3
3. from creek in the ceiling beam (1:44): MP3
4. from PLACE Book I and Book III (3:11): MP3
5. from long shout to kernewek (4:00): MP3
6. from 5 Plages, SHUNI (1:09): MP3
7. "far off vision" from The Art of Flight in PAXTON'S BEACON (6:29): MP3
8. from PLACE Book III, (STANE) (2:27): MP3
9. "Logos : Mother : Matter : 2" from PLACE Book IV, (BECOMING) (0:39): MP3
10. Make her an offer and she'll raise your bid" from APOCALYPTIC SONNETS (0:38): MP3
11. "Nerves" from APOCALYPTIC SONNETS (1:45): MP3
12. "Two of the Locations" from The Poems of Chris Famulus and his Circle (0:39): MP3
13. "Fundamental Poetry" from The Poems of Chris Famulus and his Circle (0:22): MP3
14. "Vanity and Treason" from The Poems of Chris Famulus and his Circle (0:40): MP3
15. "we are the shape pf the landscape" from HOOKS (1:15): MP3
16. "13 continued" from HOOKS (0:41): MP3
17. "interjacents" from EROS : FATHER : PATTERN (0:47): MP3
18. EROS : FATHER : PATTERN Section 2 (1:06): MP3
19. "Wedding Investment" from Executive Ease in IMBRICATIONS (1:47): MP3
20. "In a Hilbert Space" from IMBRICATIONS (1:57): MP3
21. "The Gardener's Monologue continues" from UNPOLISHED MIRRORS (2:42): MP3
22. "Pickled Tennis Balls" from BLOOD BONE BRAIN (1:36): MP3
23. "Boiled Clock..." from BLOOD BONE BRAIN (0:51): MP3
24. "For Maureen O'Sullivan" from POETRY FOR SCHOOLS (1:13): MP3
25. Part Two from BENDING WINDOWS (1:59): MP3
26. No. 15 from Defamiliarizing (2:11): MP3
27. "AFRICAN BOOG" from BRIXTON FRACTALS (10:34): MP3

Complete recording (60:32): MP3

Reading from Unpolished Mirrors at the University of Warwick, November 30, 1982

Courtesy of University of Warwick.

Complete Recording (1:15:14): MP3

Reading The Apocalyptic Sonnets, Home Recording, February 9, 1977

Side A (29:48): MP3

Side B (21:50): MP3

Recording courtesy of Paul Buck

The Art of Flight VI-IX: 4 voices simultaneously, date and location unknown

Recorded on audiocasette. Featured in the Joris and Peyrafitte tape collection.

• Complete Reading (4:37): MP3

Readings from Place, date and location unknown

Recorded on audiocassette. Featured in the Joris and Peyrafitte tape collection.

Part of a joint reading with Clayton Eshleman and Kenneth Irby

• Poems from Place (12:10): MP3

Also on PennSound:

• PhillyTalks #19 with Karen MacCormack, October 17, 2001 (58:16)

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2010 Allen Fisher. Used with permission of Allen Fisher. Distributed by PennSound.