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The first collection of critical essays on the writing of Kathleen Jamie, one of the most outstanding poets of our times
Kathleen Jamie's works are classics. No one can read Kathleen Jamie and remain indifferent or unchanged. Nationally acclaimed since her first major publications in the 1980s, Jamie stands out from other contemporary poets in her exceptional musicality, her strikingly unusual perspectives, her wry humour, translucent imagery and hard-edged economy of expression. These 16 newly commissioned critical essays and 7 previously unpublished poems by leading poets make up the first full-length study of Kathleen Jamie's writing. The essays discuss all of her poetry collections, including The Queen of Sheba (1994), Jizzen (1999), Mr and Mrs Scotland Are Dead: Poems 1980-94 (2002), The Tree House (2004) and The Overhaul (2012), as well as her travel writing, including Among Muslims (2002), her nature writing, Findings (2005) and Sightlines (2012) and her collaborative work, including Frissure (2013), with artist Brigid Collins. Whether engaging with national politics, with gender, with landscape and place, or with humanity's relation to the natural environment, this volume demonstrates that Kathleen Jamie's verse teaches us new ways of listening, of seeing and of living in the contemporary world.
Readers will have access to 14 audio recordings of Kathleen Jamie reading from works discussed in the volume.
www.euppublishing.com/page/kathleenjamie/audio
Rachel Falconer is Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Lausanne.
Contents
Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 'Inlet', Michael Longley; 1. Introduction, Rachel Falconer; 2. A Poetics of Listening, Faith Lawrence; 'Off the page', Roderick Watson; 3. Mr and Mrs Scotland Are Taking a Vacation in the Autonomous Region, Alan Riach; 4. Kathleen's Scots, Robert Crawford; 'A man, a former environmental activist turned PR consultant for logging companies, defends his choices', Leontia Flynn; 5. Transcending the Urban: The Queen of Sheba, Amanda Bell; 6. 'Proceeding Without a Map': Kathleen Jamie and the Lie of the Land, David Wheatley; 'What the Water Says', Fiona Sampson; 7. 'An Orderly Rabble': Plural Identities in Jizzen, Timothy L. Baker; 8. 'Sweet-wild weeks': Birth, Being and Belonging in Jizzen; Juliet Simpson; 'Even If', Michael O'Neill; 9. 'The Tilt from One Parish to Another': The Tree House and Findings, Peter Mackay; 10. Repetition, Return and the Negotiation of Place in The Tree House, Lynn Davidson; 11. Form in The Tree House, Michael O'Neill; 'Hibernaculum', Jamie McKendrick; 12. Nature and Embodiment in This Weird Estate. Lucy Collins; 13. 'Into the Centre of Things': Poetic Travel Narratives by Jamie and Shepherd, Eleanor Bell; 14. 'Connective Leaps': Sightlines and The Overhaul, Louisa Gairn; 'The view, the light', Andrew Greig; 15. Life Lines, Sight Lines: Collaborative Works, Eleanor Spencer; 16. Midlife Music: The Overhaul and Frissure, Rachel Falconer; 17. 'We do language like spiders do webs': Kathleen Jamie and Michael Longley in Conversation, Maria Johnston; Notes on Contributors; Bibliography
