The Hundred Thousand Places

by Thomas A. Clark

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To walk through a landscape is to be part of a slow unfolding of time and distance, to commit yourself to an adventure. "The Hundred Thousand Places" is a single poem that travels across seasons, through a variety of Scottish highland and island landscapes, from dawn to dusk. Make an early start, 'feel your way out / into what might - take form'. It is a long walk, along the coast, over mountain and moorland, through pine and birch forest, ending on a shore where the sea offers 'another knowledge / wild and cold'. Attentive and responsive, the unhurried pace of Thomas A. Clark's writing draws the reader into a shared journey, pausing on the possibilities of a phrase, the music of the names of trees and flowers, or turning the page to open new horizons. Cover painting: "One Thousand Blue Places" (detail) by Laurie Clark, reproduced by kind permission of the artist.
  • ISBN10 1847778178
  • ISBN13 9781847778178
  • Publish Date 1 May 2012 (first published 28 November 2009)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 96
  • Language English