I centomila luoghi

I centomila luoghi, a translation by Chiara De Luca
of The Hundred Thousand Places is published by
Kolibris Editions and available from
Via Pellegrino Matteucci 11
40137 Bologna

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primula
delle isole
aperta
dalla luce
prima primula
delle isole

The Path To The Sea

came the nine joys
with the nine waves
with the nine joys
of the nine waves
and the nine waves
of the nine joys





the first wave to meet you
the second wave to lift you
the third wave to balance you
the fourth wave to carry you
the fifth wave to farther you
the sixth wave to enjoy
the seventh wave to rock you
the eighth wave to prepare you
the ninth wave to deliver you




from The Path To The Sea
Arc Publications 2005 £8.99

100,000

birch sapling curving
slightly twisting
out from the slope
rising and turning
in what might
be called a gesture
if a gesture can be
prolonged indefinitely


from The Hundred Thousand Places
published by Carcanet Press 2009

available from
www.carcanet.co.uk

On The Earth

Five polished stone axes were recovered this summer from the archaeological excavations at Braes of Ha'Breck on the island of Wyre in Orkney. These are in addition to hundreds of fragments of pottery, flint and stone tools making this one of the most significant domestic sites in Orkney from the Early Neolithic. For further information see www.orkney.uhi.ac.uk

A tee-shirt and photographic print, designed by Thomas A Clark for the archaeologists at Wyre, is available from braeprojects.com/shopsite

Company

with thanks to Tamsin Clark
Carmel Olivier, Peter Foolen, Ross Hair,
Sara Mackillop, and Anne Bjerge Hansen

A Model of Order

Selected Letters on Poetry and Making

by Ian Hamilton Finlay


"I don't usually play games but it seems to me
that most games are like many poems, in that
they are so complex that luck (randomness)
re-enters by the complexity - and that it is better,
therefore, to have a kind of 'concrete' game, where
the basic moves are simple, but can result in a kind
of measured complexity which one can see."


Edited by Thomas A Clark
Published by WAX 366
Available from David Bellingham,
119 Wilton Street 2/1, Glasgow G20 6RD
Price £9.95

To Flow Away

Near the entrance to the Falkland Centre for Stewardship in Fife,
a pond is fed by the Maspie Burn. Beside the pond, a circular bench
is placed round the trunk of an old lime tree. A poem has been carved
onto the bench, in a line going round the tree

to flow away continually
to be constantly replenished

People can sit on the bench and watch a movement of water
constantly supplying the stillness of the pond. To read the poem,
they must pay homage to the tree by walking round it.

Letter cutting by Roger Hall