Thomas A. Clark lives in Pittenweem, a fishing village on the east coast of Scotland. His three previous books from Carcanet are The Hundred Thousand Places (2008), Yellow & Blue (2014) and Farm by the Shore (2017). With the artist Laurie Clark, during the summer months, he runs Cairn Gallery, a space for minimal and conceptual art. In exploration of some formal possibilities of poetry, his work often appears as installations or interventions in galleries or in domestic or public spaces.