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Cairn: A marker on open land, a memorial, a viewpoint shared by strangers.For the last five years poet and author Kathleen Jamie has been turning her attention to a new form of writing: micro-essays, prose poems, notes and fragments. Placed together, like the stones of a wayside cairn, they mark a changing psychic and physical landscape. The virtuosity of these short pieces is both subtle and deceptive. Jamie's intent 'noticing' of the natural...

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The first modern anthology of Scottish nature writing which acknowledges the realities of our times, edited, curated and introduced by the award-winning author of Findings

It's surprising what you can find by simply stepping out to look. Award-winning poet Kathleen Jamie has an eye and an ease with the nature and landscapes of Scotland as well as an incisive sense of our domestic realities. In Findings she draws together these themes to describe travels like no other contemporary writer.Whether she is following the call of a peregrine in the hills above her home in Fife, sailing into a dark winter solstice on th...

The first modern anthology of Scottish nature writing which acknowledges the realities of our times, edited, curated and introduced by the award-winning author of Findings

A new collection of writing from the prize-winning author of Findings and Sightlines.

A beautifully produced essay collection that spirals back through interests and themes traced over the past 40 years of Jamie's career, as well as forwards into an unknown future... To read a Jamie essay is to be given a fresh lens through which to view the world." Amanda Bell, Irish TimesUnder the ravishing light of an Alaskan sky, objects are spilling from the thawing tundra linking a Yup'ik village to its hunter-gatherer past. In the shifti...

In this remarkable collection, part travelogue, part cultural and personal history, poet and author Jamie touches points on a timeline spanning millennia, and considers what surfaces and what reconnects people to their pasts.

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Scrutare gli orizzonti (titolo originale Sightlines) è un volume di narrativa di viaggio, una delle poche opere in prosa della poeta Kathleen Jamie. Contiene 14 racconti su escursioni da lei fatte sulle remote e ormai disabitate isole scozzesi di St Kilda e Rona, su un suo viaggio all'Artico a vedere l'aurora boreale, su una visita a una colonia di sule, una visita al museo di Bergen e alla sua famosa sala delle balene, sull'incontro con orche...

The Bonniest Companie, spelling scozzese, è la settima silloge di Kathleen Jamie, scritta e sostenuta dalla "tremendous energy" - parole sue - della campagna per l'indipendenza della Scozia in vista del referendum del settembre 2014, che però sancirà la vittoria del "no". Attivista e fervente sostenitrice del "sì", Kathleen Jamie decise di esprimere quell'energia scrivendo, se possibile, una poesia la settimana. La sfida della scrittura fu vin...

Trade paperback. A retrospective of the oeuvre of the poet Kathleen Jamie drawing from her earlier collections, going over Jamie's poetic preoccupations of nature, language and human and animal consciousness.

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Jamie's first collection since the award-winning "The Tree House", and it demonstrates a broadening of her range.

The outer world flew open like a door, and I wondered - what is it that we're just not seeing?In this greatly anticipated sequel to Findings, prize-winning poet and renowned nature writer Kathleen Jamie takes a fresh look at her native Scottish landscapes, before sailing north into iceberg-strewn seas. Her gaze swoops vertiginously too, from a countryside of cells beneath a hospital microscope, to killer whales rounding a headland, to the cons...