Some years ago 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. This is the second volume of Cut Flowers to be published by Guillemot Press. It holds four sections engaged with ‘Forestry, Folk,’ ‘Passed, Passing,’ ‘Coastal Kestrel’ and ‘Gallery, Ground’ reflecting engagement with place, environment, art, music and death. Ultimately however,Cut Flowers 2 is as much about this elusive, alluring little form as anything.

Harriet Tarlo’s books include Gathering Grounds (Shearsman, 2019) and Field (Shearsman, 2016) as well as four artists books with Judith Tucker (Wild Pansy Press). Harriet was the editor of the influential anthology of radical landscape poetry The Ground Aslant (Shearsman, 2011).

The cover of Cut Flowers 2 is by Judith Tucker.

64pp / 175mm x 120mm / ISBN 978-1-913749-47-7
September 2024