Kathleen Jamie is a poet and essayist whose work explores landscape, memory, and the human experience with keen observation and lyrical prose. Her writing often delves into the depths of the natural world, revealing its connection to our inner lives. Through her poetic and essayistic voice, Jamie captures the essence of place and time, offering readers reflections on the complexities of existence.
This collection features a striking array of bilingual poems by Scotland's National Poet, showcasing the richness of Scottish culture and language. The poems explore themes of identity, nature, and social issues, offering readers a unique perspective through the interplay of English and Scots. The work celebrates the beauty of linguistic diversity, inviting both native speakers and those new to the language to engage with the poetry's emotional depth and cultural significance.
Innovative non-fiction by one of the pioneers of new nature writing
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 timely career retrospective including material from Kathleen Jamie's earlier collections and featuring writing on her recurrent themes of nature, language, and human and animal consciousness.
An essential new collection from one of Picador's leading poets our conduct within family and society. In The Tree House Jamie argues - as Burns did before her - for an engagement of the whole being through a kind of practical earthly spirituality. These often startling encounters with animals, birds, and other humans propose a way of living which recognises the earth as home to many different consciousnesses -- and a means of authentic engagement with 'this, the only world'. Together they form one of the most powerful poetic statements of recent years.
Kathleen Jamie, Alexander McCall Smith, Alistair Moffat, James Robertson and James Crawford travel across the country to tell the story of the nation, unravelling the places, people and passions that have had an enduring impact on the landscape and character of Scotland.
The latest poetry collection from the prize-winning Kathleen Jamie.
The Overhaul is Kathleen Jamie's first collection since the award-winning The Tree House. Winner of the Costa Poetry Award 2012
Offers a fresh look at the authors 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 constellations of satellites that belie our sense of the remote.