The Displaced Omphalos-(s)tone: Ergativity and the Contrapuntal Deixis of the Midlands in Roy Fisher’s Eccentric Topopoetics

Birmingham occupies the pivot of a centripetal metaphor of cardinal points. Yet the historical marginalisation of the industrial Midlands has rendered its centrality almost inconceivable for its inhabitants. In postwar poetry, the most salient figure to speak from this inconceivable centre is Roy Fi...

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Main Author: Samuel Trainor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2024-11-01
Series:Études Britanniques Contemporaines
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ebc/15317
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