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  • Black Fens Viral
    Frances Presley
    Black Fens Viral began in summer 2020 when I was recovering from Covid. Lockdown was lifting and I was able to travel to Norfolk on the slow train which goes through the Black Fens of East Anglia. This flat, almost hedgeless and treeless, agricultural landscape of black peat was once marshland, before the drainage of the fens. The first sluice was created by the Dutch engineer ...
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    19,67 €

  • Collected Poems, Volume 1
    Frances Presley
    The first volume of Frances Presley’s Collected Poems, 1973 to 2004, provides an important overview of her earlier life and poetic development. She experiments with modern and postmodern poetry and prose, projects and collaborations, sometimes associated with the new British poetry. Her feminism and political commitment are sharply defined, alongside a growing concern for ecolo...
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    26,30 €

  • Collected Poems, Volume 2
    Frances Presley
    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 Neolit...
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    30,43 €

  • Ada Unseen
    Frances Presley
    ‘Mathematical Science is the language of the unseen relations between things’, wrote Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron, mathematician and computer visionary. She had a home on Exmoor and this landscape is reimagined through science and poetics, part of a collaboration with visual poet Tilla Brading. Ada loved birds and a series of poems on birds and flight are designed like ...
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    19,56 €

  • The Sex of Art
    Frances Presley
    The Sex of Art was Frances Presley’s first full collection, published by North and South in 1987. Perhaps a little overdue by that time, the book nevertheless summed up the author’s first dozen years of writing, and is a specific record of that time. A young woman begins with an American dream and the forms it takes in American writing. In this book she arrives finally in Ithac...
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    16,04 €

  • Weight of Light
    Hanne Bramness / Frances Presley
    “…A lived and wise collection by this knowledgeable and sensitive poet.” —Tore Elias Hoel, Dag og tid“She tries to conjure up places and situations which normal language does not reach, from which it has disappeared, and then let something unheard communicate with us across a distance for which we have no words. (…) What she adds is her fabulous gift of making her material phys...
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    15,81 €

  • halse for hazel
    Frances Presley
    Halse is Exmoor dialect for hazel, as transcribed by local historian Hazel Eardley-Wilmot: a convergence of names which initiates a new poetic syntax of marginal trees and tongues. Halse for hazel has three sections, Halse, Col and Hassel: alternate and playful names for hazel, which map wide ranging geographic and linguistic areas, as well as political and environmental pressu...
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    18,03 €

  • No Film in the Camera
    Hanne Bramness / Frances Presley
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    16,06 €

  • Outside the Institution - Selected Poems
    Lars Amund Vaage / Frances Presley / Hanne Bramness
    The first collection in English by Lars Amund Vaage, one of the most significant poets and novelists of his generation in Norway. ...
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    16,12 €

  • Lines of Sight
    Frances Presley
    Frances Presley’s Lines of sight brings together all her poems from ’Stone settings and longstones’, a sequence framed by the Neolithic stone monuments on Exmoor. The poems reflect the fragile, elusive and even disputed existence of these sites, as well as the enduring landscape which surrounds them. They reveal, too, more recent layers of history, and the creation of new stone...
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    18,02 €

  • Salt on the Eye. Selected Poems
    Hanne Bramness / Frances Presley
    This is the first collection of Hanne Bramness’ work to be published in English for many years, and it surveys an increasingly impressive body of work, which won her the prestigious Scandinavian Dobloug Prize in 2006, awarded by the Swedish Academy. Author of eight volumes of poetry and a number of translations from English, Hanne Bramness is one of the leading poets of her gen...
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    17,98 €