A burglar near the end of the century hears a song thrush on trumpet. William Blake, senior citizen of Lambeth, is walking through the Brixton riots. Garden design encodes aesthetics and slavery. This is our poetry. It ranges from archaeology to jazz, from genetics to ZAP vectors via Paxton and Mandelbrot, a performance in time. Allen Fisher's epic Gravity is an alphabet of procedural poems, a conceptual cinema, a fun-park, and a museum of anthropology. Deliberately imperfect, democratic, non-totalising, vivid and beautiful: we could not have imagined it without him.

This was the first publication of the complete text (insofar as it can be contained within a set of covers) of Allen Fisher's 1970s project PLACE - including Place Book 1, Becoming, Stane and Unpolished Mirrors. It was published in 2005. This second edition (2016) has had slight corrections to errors but is otherwise the same book in the same cover design. PLACE was Allen Fisher's now somewhat legendary poetic project of the 1970s. Originally published over several years as a series of interconnecting books, virtually all of them now unobtainable, it incorporates influences from Blake, Olson,...