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- Herausgeber: Carcanet Poetry
- Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
- Sprache: Englisch
'to be affected in many ways is 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 writers, a vivid minimalist, ruralist and experimentalist, his selected poems, The Threadbare Coat (2020), is also published by Carcanet.
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Contents
THRUMS
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bits and pieces
of warp thread
left on the loom
after weaving
to strum or pluck
a stringed instrument
idly
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nothing
is added
nothing
is taken away
but at times
uncertain
atoms
swerve
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rise early
stir the oatmeal
breathe on the embers
of unchanging change
climb out through the window
the sea is at the door
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a mare browsing gorse blossom
deer at the snowdrops
footprint
of crushed
dewdrops
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in mountain top detritus
berries form from clouds
snow crystals melt
into starry saxifrage
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better than knowledge
than understanding
is lightness
access or ease
retreat of a glacier
removal of a weight
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where drainage is impeded
bright orange racemes
of the bog asphodel
adornment of scarcity
saffron of the poor
recumbent stone
with votive wheat sheaf
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purple moor grass
allegro vivace
floating sweet grass
andante con moto
perennial rye grass
allegro con spirito
barren brome
adagio e contabile
pendulous sedge
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sad passions pass
slow sad stately
passions pass
doric ionic corinthian
radical umbelliferous cordate
affective structures
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let it go
they say
of a mood
or an argument
as if you might
open your hands
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there is a lag
between experience
and its appropriation
there is
a grey lag between
experience and its
appropriation
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from assumptions and preferences
from caution and suspicion
from constant self-reference
from easy recognition
