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This includes poetry selected from 18 different books in the period of 1970-1983. This selection reproduces roughly half of a reading given by Allen Fisher of his SCRAM or the transformation of the concept of cities (selected poems 1970-1983). The reading was given above a noisy pub in London's West End on 13th January 1989 as part of Gilbert Adair's Sub-voicive Poetry series. The selection provides a broad range of constructive, conceptual and expressive examples from AF's work. The presentation of these poems is approximately in chronological order. ... 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