Farm by the Shore

Thomas A Clark, Thomas A. Clark

• Publisher: Carcanet Poetry
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781784103521
• eBook ISBN: 9781784103538
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: European Poetry
• Index: Literature

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.

FARM BY THE SHORE

sea separates from sky

earth from sea

all things take shape

from darkness

do you know the land

where bog cotton grows

on the littoral

among the laminarias

at the equinoctial

low spring tide

the tonality or ethos

of a floating world

is pooled in rock

in wrack and tangle

nothing is lovelier

than the grey line

that approaches and departs

from precision

in the truce of the morning

the bitter taste

of the memory of talk

a debris in the wake

of eagerness

green floats in the mist and haze

then green floats in the haze

then green floats

for the nurture

of all things is moist

warmth itself coming

to be from the moist

the seeds of all things

being moist in nature

an island balanced ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• Farm by the Shore
• Also by Thomas A Clark from Carcanet Press
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