Tenter

Tenter is named after the tenter-frames on which cloth is stretched (using tenter-hooks). The poems weave around the making of the Bayeux tapestry as a way into writing about past and current wars and the role of memory and language in the way we commemorate conflict. Tenter explores what the poet sees as a crisis in our current inability to respond ethically to the consequences of wars we are still involved in, whilst engaging in public and civic acts of remembrance. 

Susie Campbell has published three previous pamphlets, The Bitters (Dancing Girl Press, 2014), The Frock Enquiry (Annexe, 2015) and I return to you (Sampson Low, 2019). Her work was included in the Museum of Futures exhibitions of avant-garde Visual Poetry 2017- 2019. She was commissioned to create and perform new work in honour of Tsering Woeser, one of the Writers at Risk supported by English PEN, for the English PEN Modern Literature Festival in 2017. Susie was poet-in-residence for the 2017-18 Mellon-Sawyer series: Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation, from which Tenter emerged. She helps to facilitate the Oxford Brookes Veterans' Poetry Workshop run by the Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre. She is currently studying for a practice-based poetry PhD at Oxford Brookes. 

Tenter has been illustrated by Rose Ferraby, an artist and archaeologist whose work often explores the relationship between people and landscapes, including Stonework (2013 with Mark Edmonds) and Soundmarks (2019 with Rob St. John). Rose’s illustrations for The Tender Map by Melanie Challenger (Guillemot Press) won the 2017 Michael Marks Award for Illustration. Her commissions for museums have included a print on the Folkton Drums to accompany a poem by Michael Rosen (Grave Goods Project).

Tenter has been printed on Mohawk Superfine papers with a Fedrigoni Sirio Color Gialloro cover and section sewn.

56 pages
184 x 140mm
ISBN 9781916060548