sallow

"sallow" continues a long sequence of poems about the languages of trees, "halse for hazel" (Shearsman, 2014). "halse for hazel" began on the hills of Exmoor and sallow explores low lying, wetland areas, mapping political and environmental pressures. This sequence includes a collaborative text with Harriet Tarlo and striking images by Irma Irsara. 'I found her work a highly pleasant revelation, at once thoroughly alert and judged yet delightfully manic and farreaching in its wildness, risks and resultant freedoms' David Morley, Poetry Review 'Presley's work sleights the relationship between landscape and language, each deploying (or deployed) as markers for the human eye.' G. C. Waldrep, Kenyon Review