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Thomas A. Clark

Photograph by Aled Haywood, 2018. Image courtesy of Thomas A. Clark.

Thomas A. Clark

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21st century poems poems on postcards poverty the commonplace visual poetry

About this poem

A multiform work which is both a poem and a poetic methodology.
Published Moschatel Press, 2016
Postcard dimensions h 10 x w 15 cm
Catalogue ab 3.Cla 57090 (as part of Thomas A. Clark and Laurie Clark, A Box of Landscapes, Moschatel Press, 2016)

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Thomas A. Clarkb.1944

The poetry of Thomas A. Clark has been consistently attentive to form and to the experience of walking in the landscape, returning again and again to the lonely terrain of the Highlands and Islands.  
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