Book description
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.
'Thomas A Clark has produced a book-length poem of genuine visionary
intent... The Hundred Thousand Places realigns our understanding of the
lyric voice and of its investment in the natural world.' - Tom Chivers,
Poetry London Thomas A. Clark lives in the small fishing village of
Pittenweem, an the east coast of Scotland. He has published four
previous collections of poetry, and numerous small books and cards with
his own Moschatel Press. In the summer months, with the artist Laurie
Clark, he runs Cairn, a project space for minimal and conceptual art
(www. cairneditions. co. uk). Thomas A. Clark's work often appears as
installations or interventions in galleries, public spaces or in the
landscape. A large collection of such work has been installed throughout
New Stobhill Hospital in Glasgow.
