Frances Presley

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Discussions of Frances Presley’s work: selected essays, reviews, & interviews

‘Writing about trees’:

 In conversation with Owain Jones, October 2013: 

‘The poems came first’:

Steve Spence, Stride 2013

‘Ada Unseen’, by Alice Entwhistle:

Tears in the Fence, 72, Autumn 2020, pp. 143-146.

‘Review of between wind and water, Ada Unseen, and Fate News’:

by Jane Joritz-Nakagawa, Plumwood Mountain, May 2020.

The New Poetics of Climate Change: modernist aesthetics for a warming world:

by Matthew Griffiths, Bloomsbury, 2018, 224pp.

‘Off path, counter path: contemporary walking collaborations in landscape, art and poetry’:

by Harriet Tarlo and Judith Tucker, Critical Survey, 2017, 29 (1), pp. 105-132.

‘Review of Frances Presley and Peterjon Skelt, An Alphabet for Alina’,

by Greg Thomas, Cambridge Literary Review, Spring, 2015, pp. 211-223.

‘Arranging the variables’:

By Jack Underwood Poetry London, 75, Summer 2013

‘Taking place’: deixis, collaboration and the gender politics of the aesthetic’:

By Alice Entwhistle

‘Open Field: reading field as place and poetics’, by Harriet Tarlo (In Placing Poetry eds. Ian Davidson and Zoe Skoulding, Rodopi, 2013, pp. 69-91 113-148).

‘Against Background:

contemporary British poetry from Shearsman’, by G. C. Waldrep, Kenyon review, Spring 2012

‘The Ekphrastic Encounter in Contemporary British Poetry and Elsewhere’:

By David Kennedy 188pp, Ashgate, 2012

‘Go Quotiently:

contemporary British poetry from Shearsman’, by G. C. Waldrep, Kenyon review, Spring 2012

‘Out of Town’:

By John Muckle  PN Review 202, 2012

‘Giving yourself to the other’

 an interview by David Hawkins, December 2011

‘Post-pastoral perspectives on landscape and culture’:

By Alice Entwistle (In Cambridge Companion to Twentieth Century British and Irish Women’s Poetry, ed Jane Dowson  Cambridge Univ., 2011  pp 136-151)

‘Veiled but more expressive’:

By Alexandra Trowbridge-Matthews Roundyhouse 32, 2010, pp 57-58 ‘Review’, by Lyndon Davies  PoetryWales46 (1) Summer 2010, pp 69-71

‘Pattern needs another stone: Lines of Sight’

By Anna Reckin  Jacket 40, 2010,

‘Rebounding flowerheads’:

By David Morley  Poetry Review, Spring 2010, pp 113-116

‘Recycles:

 the eco-ethical poetics of found text in contemporary poetry’, by Harriet Tarlo, Journal of Ecocriticism, 1(2), 2009

‘Remembering & interpretation: Lines of Sight’

By Steve Spence  Stride

‘Frances Presley, Lines of Sight: featured review’:

 by Joel Weishaus  Poetica

‘Speaking from landscape’:

by Katy Evans-Bush Poetry London, Autumn 2007, pp 30-32 ‘Love’s body’ by Graham Hartill Poetry Review 96(4), Winter 2006/7 pp 105-108

‘Leading off the path:

a review of Frances Presley, Myne: new & selected poems and prose’ by Clive Bush  Jacket 31 October 2006

‘Interview with Frances Presley’:

by Edmund Hardy  Intercapillary Space October 2006

‘Paravane :

new & selected poems’ by Tim Allen  Terrible Work,  April 2006

‘How were these poems moved together?’:

 Frances Presley  Paravane: new and selected poems’  by Mary Michaels  SalzburgReview 8 Autumn 2005 pp. 30-40

‘Forms of enquiry’:

by David Kennedy  PN Review 163, May 2005 p. 91

‘Minesweep: Paravane: new and selected poems’:

By Meredith Quartermain  Jacket 25, February 2004

‘A She Even Smaller Than a Me’:

 gender dramas of the contemporary avant-garde’, by Harriet Tarlo (In Contemporary women’s poetry: reading/ writing/ practice’ ed Marks and Rees-Jones  Macmillan, 2000 pp 247-270)