Yellow & Blue, an exhibition of new work by Carcanet poet and artist Thomas A. Clark, will be on display in Orkney from 19th September - 3rd October. The main part of the exhibition will be at Porteous Brae Gallery, Dundas Street, Stromness; in addition, text installations by Clark will be installed in Woodwick House in Evie, at the Braes o Ha'Breck archaeological excavation in Wyre and at a number of other venues across Orkney. The exhibition's opening celebration on Sunday evening will feature a reading by the Shetland-based poet Jen Hadfield.

Carcanet will publish Clark's new poetry book in November. The Hundred Thousand Places is a single poem that circles across seasons, through a variety of Scottish highland and island landscapes, from dawn to dusk. 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'.

Thomas A. Clark lives in the small fishing village of Pittenweem, on 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. 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.

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