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Thomas A. Clark

b.1944

Thomas A Clark
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Thomas A Clark was born in Greenock, Scotland. His poetry 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.

In 1973, with the artist Laurie Clark, he started Moschatel Press. At first a vehicle for small publications by Ian Hamilton Finlay, Cid Corman, Jonathan Williams, Simon Cutts and others, it soon developed into a means of formal investigation within his own poetry, treating the book as imaginative space, the page as a framing device or as quiet around an image or a phrase, the turning of pages as revelation or delay.

From 1986, Laurie and Thomas A Clark have run Cairn Gallery, one of the earliest of ‘artist-run spaces’, specialising in Land Art, Minimalism and a lyrical or poetic Conceptualism. After many years in the Cotswolds, the Clarks moved in 2002 to re-open the gallery in Pittenweem.

In addition to his books and smaller publications, Clark has also made site-specific installations in galleries, in gardens or in the landscape, and has many works in permanent collections world-wide.

The Library has an extensive collection of his Moschatel Press publications. Please contact the Librarian for more information.

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  • intelligence
  • Poor Poetry
  • three fish
  • Hölderlin’s shopping bag
  • a book of water
  • yellowhammer
  • excerpt from Farm by the Shore
  • ‘flowering gorse bush’
  • when the light shifts
  • coire fhionn lochan
  • Riasg Buidhe
  • ‘in the half-light of dusk’

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Thomas A. Clark's blog

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