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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

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

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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

Reading at Sub Voicive (The Three Cups, London), September 6, 1994, from the Eric Mottram Collection

Complete recording (50:20): MP3

    Peyraffite Salon, Albany, December 14, 1993

    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 at Sub Voicive (Rose & Crown, London) June 19, 1981, from the Eric Mottram Collection

    Complete recording (43:13): MP3

    Reading at King's Poetry Series, King's College London, February 19, 1980, from the Eric Mottram Collection

    1. Part 1 (34:42): MP3
    2. Part 2 (51:54): MP3

    Reading partly improvised versions of his 'Apocaylptic sonnets', 1977, from the Eric Mottram Collection

  1. Part 1 (29:29): MP3
  2. Part 2 (22:04): MP3

Reading at Lumb Bank, Yorkshire, September 24, 1976, from the Eric Mottram Collection

  1. Part 1 (43:11): MP3
  2. Part 2 (42:52): MP3

Reading 'Art of flight', November 4, 1976

Complete recording (17:54): MP3

Performance of his 'Art of Flight', undated

  1. Part 1 (25:29): MP3
  2. Part 2 (24:58): 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

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