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Kathleen Jamie - Findings (2nd Hand Softback)
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Synopsis
It's surprising what you can find by simply stepping out to look.
Kathleen Jamie, award winning poet, 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.
"I love this book . . ." - Andrew Marr.
Details
- Format : Standard 2nd Hand Softback with French Fold Sleeves
- Condition : Very Good
- Category : Non-Fiction - Scotland
- Published : 2005 (Sort of Books)
- ISBN : 9780954221744
- SKU : B003120
- PPC : LL300gm
- RRP : £6.99
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External Reviews
"Poet Kathleen Jamie renders the natural world in lyrical brush strokes as she recounts numerous encounters with creatures from peregrines to whales around the coast of her native Scotland." - Waterstones.
'Prose essays of a sharpness of looking, and directness of thought, that will make them last a long time; some of the best writing out of rural Scotland for many decades. Jamie observes the extraordinary, alien natural world around her with a frank uncluttered candour, while nevertheless standing rooted in the middle of modern family life.' - Andrew Marr.
'Kathleen Jamie is a supreme listener. Her attention - to the beckoning calls of the peregrines that nest near her house, to the brim-full darkness in the Neolithic chambers at Maes Howe, to the mute appeals of embryo skeletons in a medical museum - has a directness that borders on the heroic. And in the quietness of her listening, you hear her own voice: clear, subtle, respectful, and so unquenchably curious that it makes the world anew. This is as close as writing gets to a conversation with the natural world.' - Richard Mabey.
'From the moment you meet Kathleen Jamie's words, you meet a passion for the environment, not as an abstract quality but as what surrounds her...the small birds in the garden, the landscapes of her native Scotland, even ordinary familiar domestic cares are illuminated with curiosity, affection, knowledge and a deep concern.' - Rosalind Coward, writer and journalist.
The Author
Kathleen Jamie FRSL FRSE (born May 1962) is a Scottish poet, non-fiction author and essayist. In 2021 she became Scotland's fourth Makar.