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Poetry. Here, Clark pays homage to poetic masters who have informed his paths in verse. There are translations of or homages to Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarme, Reverdy, Vallejo, and Brecht. A coherent and yet surprising text, the ultimate desert island grouping; these could take the lover of technique and innuendo a long, long way. Birds feature in several of the poems, not least Baudelaire's image of the albatross as metaphor for the poet: capable of majestic flights but out of sorts when brought down to earth.