The Hundred Thousand Places

£9.95

Thomas A. Clark

Clark’s poem ‘The Hundred Thousand Places’ is a walk through the highland and island landscapes of Scotland. His poetry is bright and clear, using a plain language that is full of surprise and wonder.

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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.
Cover painting: One Thousand Blue Places (detail) by Laurie Clark, reproduced by kind permission of the artist. Cover design by StephenRaw.com.

Additional information

Weight 136 g
Dimensions 21.6 × 13.5 × 1 cm
Author

Publisher

Carcanet Poetry

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

96

Language

English

Dewey

821.914 (edition:22)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K