Readers based in Edinburgh are invited to the launch of Thomas A. Clark's 'The Hundred Thousand Places'. This event will take place on Tuesday 24th November at the Scottish Poetry Library, 5 Crichton's Close, Canongate, Edinburgh - all are warmly invited. Please RSVP to Julie Johnstone by calling 0131 557 2876 or by e-mailing julie.johnstone@spl.org.uk

'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.