Handbook for the diamond country: collected shorter poems 1960-1990

On living in an old country: The national past in contemporary Britain

The North Atlantic Turbine

The map of clay

Uncommon ground: rethinking the human place in nature

Social formation and symbolic landscape

The Llyn Writings

Shadow sites: photography, archaeology, and the British landscape, 1927-1955

All where each is

Place Book One (I-XXXVII)

The Hundred Thousand Places

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.

Alstonefield: a poem