Farm by the Shore by Thomas A Clark
Shortlisted for the 2017 Saltire Society Poetry Book of the Year Award In Farm by the Shore, Thomas A Clark continues his investigations into the landscape and culture of the Scottish highlands and islands. His brief notations and fragments embody the precarious balance between sea and land, wilderness and civilisation, while everything is played out in a context of weather. The spaces between the poems, which both link and divide them, are shades of quiet, indications of time or distance, or graphs of the vagaries of attention. In such a climate, to farm, or walk, or write, is to persist. You come to one thing and then another.
'With radical simplicity, Thomas A Clark's writing gives us the unfussy beauty of the natural worldThere's not much that I ask of poetry that isn't present here.' - Matthew Welton
Thomas A Clark lives in a fishing village on the east coast of Scotland. Five books of his poetry have been published by Carcanet, including The Hundred Thousand Places (2009), Yellow & Blue (2014), Farm by the Shore (2017), The Threadbare Coat (2020) and that which appears (2024). Numerous small books, cards and editions from his own Moschatel Press investigate ways that the presentation of poetry can inform sense and nuance. During the summer months, with the artist Laurie Clark, he runs Cairn Gallery, a space for minimal and conceptual art.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781784103521 |
| ISBN 10 | 1784103527 |
| Title | Farm by the Shore |
| Author | Thomas A Clark |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2017-07-07 |
| Number of pages | 104 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Saltire Society Poetry Book of the Year Award 2017 |
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