Findings

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2005-06-01
Mått:128 x 198 x 22 mm
Vikt:191 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Sort of Books
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Sort of Books
ISBN:9780954221744
Utmärkelser:Short-listed for Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award 2006

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Award-winning poet, Kathleen Jamie was born in the west of Scotland in 1962. Her first travel book, Among Muslims (also published by Sort Of Books), was described as 'utterly luminous' (The Independent) and 'one of the most powerful accounts by a contemporary Western writer' (TLS).Her latest poetry collection, The Tree House (Picador), won the 2004 Forward prize.A part-time lecturer in Creative Writing at St Andrews University, Kathleen Jamie lives with her family in Fife.

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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.