Francesca Lisette - as the rushes were

£8 (£1 P&P) Grasp Press, 2010 (13 pages)

This pamphlet collects poems - including Tar Orchid, published separately as a broadside last year - written between February 2008 and February 2009. Machine-printed but otherwise hand-made copies, with cover artwork by Paul Alexander Thornton, and designed using a new typeface by Daniel Rhatigan.

In the recent Openned Zine Issue 2, Luke Roberts said THIS about Lisette's recent work: "... toying with obscurity, confident measure, I think actually being deliberately secretive as a form of intimacy, or a way of controlling intimacy. The highly ornate vocabulary of her poetry establishes a strange relationship with the listener: the way I follow Lisette's work is like a grid, or aspects and planes of meaning and signifying which are constantly shifting. Maybe these grids and aspects and planes are attached to bodies, or at least a you and an I, even if those poles get repeatedly flipped and turned and examined."