Farm by the Shore
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Carcanet Press Ltd
Published:31st Aug '17
Should be back in stock very soon
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 world. There's not much that I ask of poetry that isn't present here.'
Matthew Welton
'A remarkable portrayal of our contemplative relationship with nature.'
Church Times Best Books of 2017
'Meaning is discovered between spaces, silences heard between sound...a vitally alert poet.'
London Magazine
'In short, one-breath clusters of lines, Clark meditates on the details one might observe during a contemplative and solitary walk through remote countryside. His diction is perfectly pitched and his grammar exact...this is about a man's spiritual need for the humblest manifestations of nature.'
Philip Rush, The North
- Short-listed for Saltire Society Poetry Book of the Year Award 2017
ISBN: 9781784103521
Dimensions: 216mm x 135mm x 9mm
Weight: unknown
104 pages