Findings

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Publisher : Sort of Books
ISBN 13 : 1908745096
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (87 download)

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Book Synopsis Findings by : Kathleen Jamie

Download or read book Findings written by Kathleen Jamie and published by Sort of Books. This book was released on 2011-11-07 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the Orkney islands, or pacing around the carcass of a whale on a rain-swept Hebridean beach, she creates a subtle and modern narrative, peculiarly alive to her connections and surroundings.

Surfacing

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143134450
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Book Synopsis Surfacing by : Kathleen Jamie

Download or read book Surfacing written by Kathleen Jamie and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[Kathleen Jamie’s] essays guide you softly along coastlines of varying continents, exploring caves, and pondering ice ages until the narrator stumbles over — not a rock on the trail, but mortality, maybe the earth’s, maybe our own, pointing to new paths forward through the forest.” —Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing, “By the Book” in The New York Times Book Review. An immersive exploration of time and place in a shrinking world, from the award-winning author of Sightlines. In this remarkable blend of memoir, cultural history, and travelogue, poet and author Kathleen Jamie touches points on a timeline spanning millennia, and considers what surfaces and what reconnects us to our past. From the thawing tundra linking a Yup'ik village in Alaska to its hunter-gatherer past to the shifting sand dunes revealing the impressiely preserved homes of neolithic farmers in Scotland, Jamie explores how the changing natural world can alter our sense of time. Most movingly, she considers, as her father dies and her children leave home, the surfacing of an older, less tethered sense of herself. In precise, luminous prose, Surfacing offers a profound sense of time passing and an antidote to all that is instant, ephemeral, unrooted.

Sightlines

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Publisher : The Experiment, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1615191755
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (151 download)

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Book Synopsis Sightlines by : Kathleen Jamie

Download or read book Sightlines written by Kathleen Jamie and published by The Experiment, LLC. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2014 Orion Book Award for Nonfiction Winner of the John Burroughs Association 2014 Medal for Distinguished Natural History Book In Sightlines, Kathleen Jamie reports from the field—from her native Scottish “byways and hills” to the frigid Arctic in fourteen enthralling essays. She dissects whatever her gaze falls upon—vistas of cells beneath a hospital microscope, orcas rounding a headland, the aurora borealis lighting up the frozen sea. In so doing, she questions what, exactly, constitutes “nature,” and upends the idea that it is always picturesque. Written with precision, subtlety, and wry humor, Sightlines urges the reader: “Keep looking, even when there’s nothing much to see.”

The Overhaul

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Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555979025
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book The Overhaul written by Kathleen Jamie and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2012 Costa Poetry Award, the latest collection by Kathleen Jamie, "the leading Scottish poet of her generation" (The Sunday Times) See when it all unravels—the entire project reduced to threads of moss fleeing a nor'wester; d'you ever imagine chasing just one strand, letting it lead you to an unsung cleft in a rock, a place you could take to, dig yourself in—but what are the chances of that? Of the birds, few remain all winter; half a dozen waders mediate between sea and shore, that space confirmed—don't laugh—by your own work. —from "Materials" The Overhaul continues Kathleen Jamie's lyric inquiry into the aspects of the world our rushing lives elide, and even threaten. Whether she is addressing birds or rivers, or the need to accept loss, or, sometimes, the desire to escape our own lives, her poetry is earthy and rigorous, her language at once elemental and tender. The Overhaul is a midlife book of repair, restitution, and ultimately hope—of the wisest and most worldly kind.

Antlers of Water

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Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1786899809
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)

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Book Synopsis Antlers of Water by : Kathleen Jamie

Download or read book Antlers of Water written by Kathleen Jamie and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Luminous' The Times 'Beautiful’ Caught by the River Bringing together contemporary Scottish writing on nature and landscape, this inspiring collection takes us from walking to wild swimming, from red deer to pigeons and wasps, from remote islands to back gardens, through prose, poetry and photography. Edited and introduced by Kathleen Jamie, and with contributions from Amy Liptrot, Jim Crumley, Chitra Ramaswamy, Malachy Tallack, Amanda Thomson and many more, Antlers of Water urges us to renegotiate our relationship with the more-than-human world, in writing which is by turns celebratory, radical and political.

Selected Poems

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Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1509882960
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Selected Poems written by Kathleen Jamie and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathleen Jamie’s Selected Poems gathers together some of the finest work by one of the foremost poets currently writing in English. Although Jamie is perhaps best known for her writing on nature, landscape, and place, Selected Poems shows the full and remarkably diverse range of her work – and why many regard her work as crucially relevant to our troubled age. No poet currently writing has a keener eye or ear; no poet has paid more careful attention to the other consciousnesses with whom we share the planet – and no poet has Jamie’s almost miraculous ability to show us just how the world might look when the human eye ceases to gaze on it. This exceptional collection of poetry, spanning several decades, allows readers to chart the development of one of our most important contemporary talents, and serves as perfect introduction to her work.

The Bonniest Companie

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Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1509801707
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Bonniest Companie written by Kathleen Jamie and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her extraordinary collection, Kathleen Jamie examines her native Scotland - a country at once wild and contained, rural and urban - and her place within it. In the author's own words: '2014 was a year of tremendous energy in my native Scotland, and knowing I wanted to embrace that energy and participate in my own way, I resolved to write a poem a week, and follow the cycle of the year.' The poems also venture into childhood and family memory - and look to ahead to the future. The Bonniest Companie is a visionary response to a year shaped and charged by both local and global forces, and will stand as a remarkable document of our times.

Waterlight

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Waterlight written by Kathleen Jamie and published by . This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of verse by the Scottish poet explores gender, nature, landscape, and nationhood.

The Tree House

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Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 033047443X
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Tree House written by Kathleen Jamie and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-09-30 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For several years now, Kathleen Jamie's work has addressed two principal concerns: how we negotiate with the natural world, and how we should define 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.

The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse

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Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 183885262X
Total Pages : 805 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (388 download)

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Book Synopsis The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse by : Kathleen Jamie

Download or read book The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse written by Kathleen Jamie and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 805 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse is a timeless collection of Scottish poetry. It contains over three hundred poems ranging from the early medieval period to the twenty-first century, and paints a full-colour portrait of Scotland’s poetic heritage and culture. Edited and introduced by award-winning poets Kathleen Jamie, Don Paterson and Peter Mackay, and including poems by Robert Burns, Carol Ann Duffy, Sorley Maclean, Violet Jacob, William Dunbar, Meg Bateman, George Mackay Brown, Màiri Mhòr nan Òran, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jackie Kay, Liz Lochhead, and many more, The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse is a joyous celebration of Scotland’s literary past, present and future.

Among Muslims

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Publisher : Seal Press (CA)
ISBN 13 : 9781580050869
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Among Muslims written by Kathleen Jamie and published by Seal Press (CA). This book was released on 2002 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Western woman shares her adventures in Northern Pakistan, where she visited romote villages and befriended local people. Original.

Jizzen

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Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 174328084X
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Jizzen written by Kathleen Jamie and published by Picador. This book was released on 1999-12-01 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathleen Jamie's Jizzen - old Scots for childbed - explores the transformative power of birth, both human and political.These poems unfold with a supernatural intensity, alternately dark and celebratory, that set them apart from other treatments of the subject. Through the perspectives of emigrant and native, critic and intimate, Jamie addresses Scotland in all its living complexity.Jizzen reveals a writer coming into poetic maturity just as her nation begins to fully assume its own identity. The result is a poetry both worldly and other-worldly, remarkable it its humanity, political sophistication and lyric authority. PRAISE FOR KATHLEEN JAMIE "With The Queen of Sheba Kathleen Jamie has produced the best individual collection of poems by a woman living in twentieth-century Scotland. The book establishes her eminence among Scottish poets of her generation . . . The precision and resource of her language have never been combined more impressively than here" Robert Crawford, Scotsman

The Queen of Sheba

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Queen of Sheba written by Kathleen Jamie and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Queen of Sheba, the traveller comes home. These are poems of Scotland and beyond. At times darker than her earlier work, The Queen of Sheba is rich with life and boldly self-aware. Poetry Book Society Recommendation. The poems from The Queen of Sheba were later reprinted in Mr and Mrs Scotland Are Dead: Poems 1980-1994.

The Way We Live

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Publisher : Bloodaxe Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781852240349
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Way We Live written by Kathleen Jamie and published by Bloodaxe Books Limited. This book was released on 1987 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Frissure

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Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 0857906550
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book Frissure written by Kathleen Jamie and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frissure is an exquisite collection of prose-poems and illustrative work exploring healing, mortality, intimacy, memory and the natural world. It is about the intimate process of looking and seeing as it passes from one person - a cancer patient - looking at herself, from being 'examined' by a surgeon, to being looked at by an artist. In each situation a transformation occurs. The gaze of the patient on her own body and its post-operative scarring is objectified by that of the surgeon assessing the success of his work. But then the creative eye of the artist takes over and what was regarded as a mark of disease and of violation takes on an extraordinary flowering, and becomes a thing of beauty.

The Golden Peak

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Publisher : Virago Press
ISBN 13 : 9781853816093
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Peak written by Kathleen Jamie and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travelling on foot, in jeeps, on rafts in the far-flung Himalayan regions of Northern Pakistan, Kathleen Jamie found a country in the tumult of change. She met Sufi mystics and Irish missionaries; young men and women caught between East and West, and women in purdah with whom she lived and became friends. This book won the Scottish Arts Council Book Award 1992.

Mr and Mrs Scotland are Dead

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Mr and Mrs Scotland are Dead written by Kathleen Jamie and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathleen Jamie is one of Britain's leading poets and this book is a selection from her early collections. She is the winner of several awards, including the Somerset Maugham award.