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Thomas A. Clark

Thomas A. Clark

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White box labebelled ‘yellowhammer’, containing a handmade and hand painted yellow hammer.
Published Moschatel Press, 2017
Dimensions h 17 x w 24 x d 6 cm
Catalogue ab 3. Cla 45963

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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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