Slakki is Old Norse for a shallow depression among hills: 'Not much
of a valley. A Slack,' writes Roy Fisher, with typical self
effacement. But appearances are deceptive where this Slakki is
concerned. Opening with new poems written during his 80s - since
his Costa-shortlisted collection Standard Midland (2010) - the
book's second section is a gathering of uncollected poems mainly
written during the 1960s, though occasionally foreshadowed later in
the previous decade, while the third part contains poems, similarly
uncollected, written in the 1950s. 'I describe the poems in
sections two and three of this book as neglected,' Roy Fisher
writes in an afterword. 'I must emphasise that these poems have not
been passed over or slighted by publishers, editors or reviewers:
indeed my work always seems to me to have had as much attention as
it deserved or was likely to get. The neglect has been entirely
mine.' Fisher's Collected Poems 1968 from Fulcrum was a carefully
constructed volume whose cut down selection was carried over into
later retrospectives: 'The cut material was left to lie more or
less unexamined again until now.That turn of events furnishes the
majority of the neglected items in the present volume. There's an
element of what could better be called habitual negligence that
also has a bearing.' Peter Robinson produced and ordered the texts
of Slakki in response to instructions and advice from Roy Fisher.
Derek Slade contributed substantially to composing the notes on
sources and earlier appearances of the works gathered here.
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