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