
Collected Poems, Volume 2
2004-2020
Frances Presley(Author)
Shearsman Books (Publisher)
Published on 10. May 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
464 pages
978-1-84861-812-1 (ISBN)
Description
The second volume of Frances Presley's Collected Poems, 2004 to 2020, brings together a distinctive body of work, representing a major achievement in modern and postmodern poetry and prose, projects and collaborations. Feminism and political commitment are still evident, but ecology and ecopoetics are foregrounded. It includes Stone Settings and Longstones which explores Neolithic stones on Exmoor, in collaboration with visual poet Tilla Brading; the playful An Alphabet for Alina, with artist Peterjon Skelt; as well Halse for Hazel, which received an Arts Council award; and the Ada Lovelace project, Ada Unseen. There is also a new sequence, Channels, on shorelines and parallel coasts.
'As these volumes attest, Frances Presley's is the poetry of the artisan, authentic in the sharpest sense of the word: rare, inventive, its original beauties edged and tempered by the traditional skills in which they germinated. Nomadic in theme, sinewy of thought, filigree in habit, this oeuvre rummages with discriminating care among the cultural-linguistic currents and debris complicating the experiencing of place, distant or proximal, prehistoric or contemporary, empty or inhabited.' -Alice Entwhistle
'As these volumes attest, Frances Presley's is the poetry of the artisan, authentic in the sharpest sense of the word: rare, inventive, its original beauties edged and tempered by the traditional skills in which they germinated. Nomadic in theme, sinewy of thought, filigree in habit, this oeuvre rummages with discriminating care among the cultural-linguistic currents and debris complicating the experiencing of place, distant or proximal, prehistoric or contemporary, empty or inhabited.' -Alice Entwhistle
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Language
English
Place of publication
Exeter
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
748 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84861-812-1 (9781848618121)
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Person
Frances Presley was born in Derbyshire, grew up in Lincolnshire and Somerset, and lives in north London. She studied at the universities of East Anglia and Sussex, and later worked on community development and anti-racism projects, as well as at the Poetry Library. She has pursued collaborations with artists and other poets, such as Irma Irsara, Elizabeth James, Peterjon Skelt and Tilla Brading. She has written various essays and reviews, especially on innovative British women poets. Her work is included in many anthologies, including Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets (edited Carrie Etter, Shearsman, 2010), and A Ground Aslant - Radical Landscape Poetry (edited Harriet Tarlo, Shearsman, 2011). Shearsman Books publish her Collected Poems in two volumes in 2022 to mark her birthday.