In the Margin

by A.C. Clarke

Recently long-listed for the National Poetry Competition, A C Clarke is a poet who consistently delivers honest, engaging poetry. Exploring the margin, whether as text or as personal or historical experience, Clarke skilfully focusses on ways in which the centre ground and the margins can constantly shift, so that an affair outweighs vast political events or an unknown woman comes sharply into view. Poised and honed, at the heart of the collection is an affair that proceeds oblivious of the social and political context of the IRA mainland bombing campaign, whilst the opening and closing sections contain mirror poems that push us inexorably to question the margin.

80 pages, Paperback

Published November 1, 2015

About the author

A. C. Clarke (b. 1942) is a Scottish poet and translator with a background in teaching and university administration. She has been widely published in magazines and anthologies but did not concentrate on her writing until retirement in 2002, when she also moved to Scotland. Her first full collection, Breathing Each Other In, was published by Blinking Eye Press in 2005; she now has three pamphlet and five full length collections.

Clarke has won a number of prizes, including Off the Stanza in 2011 and Second Light in 2012. Her second pamphlet, A Natural Curiosity, published by New Voices Press in 2011, was shortlisted for the Callum Macdonald award.