Frances Presley

Frances Presley was born in Derbyshire, and grew up in Lincolnshire and Somerset. She lives in a housing cooperative in north London, and the local fashion trade was the subject of her collaboration with the artist Irma Irsara, Automatic cross stich (Other Press, 2000). She has also collaborated with the poet Elizabeth James in an email text and performance (Neither the One nor the Other, Form Books, 1999). She has written about her poetic practice and that of other British women poets, and is on the editorial board of How2. Her most recent sequence, Paravane, began with How2 communications post 9/11. This book brings together much of her new and published work since Linocut (Oasis, 1997).