- Small press review of ‘Daffodil’
- It is an overwhelmingly simple document made from a single sheet of A4 folded eight ways. The simplicity of its design can only be rivalled by the lucidity of its content. The text is made up of 14 words in total, the poem comprising only 7 of these lines. The poem, ‘the poem / splitting its spathe / of paper’ disrupts the crisp plain page with an abrupt verbal explosion. The yellow thread that holds together this delicate book has an endearment about it and reflects the title, ‘Daffodil’, which evokes the same idea of fragility and beauty that the minuscule creation of paper brings forth. In fact, the book is so delicate and so simply made that it is vulnerable in my overbearing palms. Whether it is professional is another question. It is certainly intriguing in its minimalism and courageous in its simplicity (the creator, Thomas A Clark, obviously trusts in the bite size poem enough for it to be the only remarkable feature of book) but whether it is anything visually exceptional or of artistically high quality is another question all together. Daffodil, therefore, is notable in its unobtrusive, inconspicuousness.
But That's Just My Opinion 