Eight Lines is the quiet unfolding of a single thought about poetry. Over the turning of eight pages, that thought travels over a landscape of metaphor, with each horizon offering a new definition.
Numbered edition of 200, hand-bound paperback, 18pp, 180mm x 120mm; cover: Sommerset Velvet 250gsm; interior: Fabriano Academia 120gsm.
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.