This is an invitation to honour poetry as the most powerful oracle of all – poetry as the primal language of divination, language as translation of silence, silence as universal mother tongue. One hand, one book, one page, one poem, one stanza, one line, one word, one person. Fivehundred places is a publishing house solely dedicated to contemporary poetry, founded in 2012 by artist Jason Dodge – with a single printing of 500 copies, each book finds itself in one of 500 places, or moments. There are 27 bones in the human hand.