Some time in 2016 Harriet Tarlo found a form and started writing Cut Flowers. All kinds of materials found a place to go that might allow, to some extent, for the contradictory nature of life and language, their depth and shallowness. Harriet acknowledges a long term debt to Rachel Blau DuPlessis’ work and the first book of cut flowers is dedicated to her.

Harriet Tarlo is a poet and academic at Sheffield Hallam whose books include Gathering Grounds (Shearsman, 2019) and Field (Shearsman, 2016) and four artists books with Judith Tucker (Wild Pansy Press). Harriet was also the editor of the influential anthology of radical landscape poetry The Ground Aslant (Shearsman, 2011).

Cut Flowers has been illustrated by Chloe Bonfield, an artist working in London and the South West. Chloe’s other poetry illustration work includes Marine Objects / Some Language by Suzannah V Evans (Guillemot, 2020).

80pp / 140mm x 140mm / ISBN 978-1-913749-04-0
March 2021