A profound exploration of landscape, memory, and the quiet power of observation in the Scottish Highlands and Islands. Thomas A. Clark's that which appears gathers four book-length sequences, inviting readers to contemplate the natural world and our place within it. These poems emerge from a practice of walking and responding to the evidence of the environment, from "snow on moss on stone" to the vastness of the highlands.This collection is for readers see...

' to be affected in many waysis the sole ambition of the days'thrums grows out of Clark' s celebrated collection, that which appears, in an extension and affirmation of that book' s particular aesthetic. Including poems first published in London Review of Books and New York Review of Books, the poems' closely observed landscapes tell of presence and loss, of change and precarious continuity.One of Scotland' s most distinctive write...

A celebration of Scotland's landscape in vivid minimalist verse.The Threadbare Coat presents a selection of poems from Thomas A Clark, one of Scotland's most distinctive contemporary writers. His work explores the beauty and stillness of the Scottish Highlands, offering a unique perspective on nature and rural life.These poems invite you to:Connect with the natural world through minimalist observation.Find joy in simplicity ...

Evocative poetry exploring the Scottish landscape and its delicate balance.In Farm by the Shore, Thomas A Clark delves into the landscape and culture of the Scottish highlands and islands. His concise notations capture the fragile equilibrium between sea and land, wilderness and civilization, all shaped by the ever-present weather.These poems offer quiet moments of reflection, linking and dividing through time and distance, charting the nuances of ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2024Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2023 for Nature Writing'Exquisite, luminous and quietly radical . . . utterly unique and refreshing' Lucy JonesWhere nothing grows, moss is the spark that triggers new life. Embarking on a journey though landscape, memory and recovery, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett explores this mysterious, ancient marvel of the plant world, meditati...

Delicately looping across several distinct seasons through a variety of highland and island environments, this breathtakingly perceptive prose offers a unique and highly visualized perspective of the meandering Scottish landscape. Suggesting that the nature of walking is a state of continual waking, this reflective and enduring poem trails along the coast, over mountains and moorland, through pine and birch forests, all while remaining attentive and responsive to the stimuli encountered. G...

Finalist, 2023 Kingsley Tufts Poetry AwardDark Traffic creates landmarks through language, by which its speakers begin to describe traumas in order to survive and move through them. With fine detail and observation, these poems work in some way like poetic weirs: readers of Kane’s work will see the arctic and subarctic, but also, more broadly, America, and the exigencies of motherhood, indigenous experience, feminism, and climate crises alongside the near-necropastoral of ...

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Over the past three years Alice Oswald has been recording conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon. Using these records and voices as a sort of poetic census, she creates a narrative of the river, tracking its life from source to sea. The voices are wonderfully varied and idiomatic - they include a poacher, a ferryman, a sewage worker and milk worker, a forester, swimmers and canoeists - and are interlinked with historic and mythic voices: drowned voices, drea...

"This wonderful collection of wildlife encounters will make anyone want to pull on their boots and re-discover the world on our doorsteps."—Kate Humble, TV host & authorFor the last thirty years, naturalist John Lister-Kaye has taken the same circular walk from his home deep in a Scottish glen up to a small hill loch. Each day brings a new observation or an unexpected encounter—a fragile spider's web, an osprey struggling to lift a trout from the water or a woodcock...

To Everything a Season is a beautifully crafted personal and reflective account of many years of the changing seasons, from autumn to autumn, in and around a village on the edge of the Cambridge Fenland. It is an uplifting reflection about change: what was, what is, what will be.It is about the miracle of the rich gift of life. It is also about death, loss, and the rebirth of the old into something rich and strange.But it is also a book suffused with a gentle humou...

POETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICEThe Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile, Alice Oswald's first collection of poems, announced the arrival of a distinctive new voice. Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, the book introduced readers to her meditative, intensely musical style, and her breath-taking gift for visionary writing.'The poetry of Alice Oswald arrives like a zephyr . . . a fresh and exciting first collection.' Kathleen Jamie, Times Literary Supplement'an...