Allen Fisher

Allen Fisher (born 1944) is a poet, painter, publisher, teacher and performer associated with the British Poetry Revival.

Fisher was born in London and started writing poetry in 1962. His early long project Place was published in a series of books and pamphlets in the 1970s. He worked on a project called Gravity as a consequence of shape from 1982 which he completed in 2007. This was followed by a book of emblems (poem-image-commentary) called "Proposals". As editor of Spanner and "New London Pride", he has published many of the Revival poets. He was also co-editor of Aloes Books. His last retrospective painting show was in Hereford Museum & Art Gallery in 1993. He has over 140 publications in his name consisting of art documentation, poetry and theory. He has been working on a book of essays "Assemblage & Empathy" regarding American Poetry & Art Since 1950 and other essays on poetics.

Fisher is Emeritus Professor of Poetry and Art at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has exhibited widely and his work is represented in the Tate Gallery.

He edits the magazine Spanner.