Books by Frances Presley

The Sex of Art was Frances Presley's first collection, from 1985. Although much of it has since reappeared in other guises, the entire book has not been republished and its structure - mixing prose and poetry freely - is unclear if one does not see as it was originally conceived.

A collection of poems from 'Stone settings and longstones', a sequence framed by the Neolithic stone monuments on Exmoor. It reflects the fragile, elusive and disputed existence of these sites, as well as the enduring landscape which surrounds them.

This book contains a long, new sequence of poems and prose by Frances Presley, as well as a selection of her work since 1996. It provides an important opportunity to see her recent work as a whole, and to appreciate how different sequences interrelate and develop, both in form and theme.