Distance & Proximity

by Thomas A. Clark

Distance and Proximity is a unique collaboration between two celebrated Scottish artists, the poet Thomas A. Clark and the photographer Olwen Shone.

Genres: Poetry

119 pages

First published September 15, 2001

About the author

Thomas A. Clark is a Scottish poet. 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.

Reviews

[Larsen Puch · Rating 5 out of 5]

Reflexiones sobre actividades tan cotidianas como caminar, pasear, contemplar un paisaje, las flores, las sombras, el sol, la luna, el mar. Ensayos fragmentarios con una fuerte carga lírica, pero centrada en el aquí y en el ahora, en el ámbito rural y natural que podemos pasar por alto o cosificar rutinariamente. En estos fragmentos se valora la sencillez, la naturaleza y el disfrute de la existencia. Se agradece leer este tipo de obras inmersos en un mundo altamente mediático, tecnologizado, virtual y viralizado insensatamente.

[Cronopioinsular · Rating 5 out of 5]

El producto más satisfactorio de la cultura es el pan

[Sandra · Rating 5 out of 5]

This a never-ending source of delight; reference for inspiration, for titles and for writing prompt. A book I frequently grab off the shelf when attending doctor or optician, as a way to make the wait less onerous.