Gathering Grounds: 2011-2019

by Harriet Tarlo, Harriet Tarlo

These poems were all written as part of collaborative place-based projects with the artist Judith Tucker. They emerge from what could be described as fieldwork, poetry based on walking through, and engaging with, place, with Judith, and, increasingly, with people who live in and visit the areas concerned. Some research into the areas concerned has also taken place and contributed to the work. Up until this moment, they have been pieces in flux. Shorter related poems or fragments have been exhibited with drawings and paintings and many of these longer pieces have been read at openings and poetry readings. Here they can be seen as a body of work. Although the earliest of these poems was originally written in 2011 and the latest in 2019, they have been edited and re-visited throughout the whole period, and indeed the places are also re-visited. (Harriet Tarlo)

176 pages, Paperback

Published October 11, 2019

About the author

Harriet Tarlo is a poet and academic who lives in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, and teaches creative writing at Sheffield Hallam University. Poetry publications include Love/Land (REM Press, 2003), Poems 1990–2003 (Shearsman Books, 2004), and Nab (Etruscan Books, 2005). Her poems about the Cumbrian coast appeared with Jem Southam’s Clouds Descending photographic exhibitions at the Lowry Gallery, Salford and Tullie House, Carlisle, in 2008–2009. Tarlo also writes academic essays on modernist and contemporary poetry with particular attention to gender and landscape and environment. Essays in books appear in critical volumes published by Edinburgh University Press, Salt, Palgrave and Rodopi. Recent critical and creative work appears in Pilot, Jacket, Rampike, English and the Journal of EcocriticismM.u< (JoE). Tarlo edited a special feature on “Women and Eco-Poetics” for How2 vol. 3, no. 2, and The Ground Aslant: An Anthology of Radical Landscape Poetry for Shearsman Press in 2011.

(from http://jacket2.org/content/harriet-tarlo)