Kathleen Jamie : : Essays and Poems on Her Work / / Rachel Falconer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Falconer, Rachel,
• MitwirkendeR: Baker, Timothy L.,; Bell, Amanda,; Bell, Eleanor,; Collins, Lucy,; Crawford, Robert,; Davidson, Lynn,; Falconer, Rachel,; Flynn, Leontia,; Gairn, Louisa,; Greig, Andrew,; Jamie, Kathleen,; Johnston, Maria,; Lawrence, Faith,; Longley, Michael,; Mackay, Peter,; McKendrick, Jamie,; O’Neill, Michael,; Riach, Alan,; Sampson, Fiona,; Simpson, Juliet,; Spencer, Eleanor,; Wheatley, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)

The first collection of critical essays on the writing of Kathleen JamieKathleen 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 These 16 newly commissioned critical essays and 7 previously unpublished poems by leading poets make up the first full-length study of Kathleen Jamie's writing.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. Key Features Presents the first collection of scholarly essays on Kathleen Jamie, one of the UK's foremost living poetsContains creative responses to Jamie's work by leading Scottish, Irish and English poets, including Michael Longley, Andrew Greig, Leontia Flynn and Jamie McKendrickProvides a full bibliography of works by and about Kathleen JamieIncludes audio recordings of Kathleen Jamie, reading from works discussed in the volume, available on the resources tab

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Citations -- Introduction -- Inlet -- 1. A Poetics of Listening -- 2. Mr and Mrs Scotland Are Taking a Vacation in the Autonomous Region -- Off the Page -- 3. Kathleen’s Scots -- 4. Transcending the Urban: The Queen of Sheba -- Hibernaculum -- 5. ‘Proceeding Without a Map’: Kathleen Jamie and the Lie of the Land -- 6. ‘An Orderly Rabble’: Plural Identities in Jizzen -- 7. ‘Sweet-Wild Weeks’: Birth, Being and Belonging in Jizzen -- Even If -- 8. ‘The Tilt from One Parish to Another’: The Tree House and Findings -- 9. Repetition, Return and the Negotiation of Place in The Tree House -- A Man, a Former Environmental Activist Turned PR Consultant for Logging Companies, Defends His Choices -- 10. Form in The Tree House -- 11. Nature and Embodiment in This Weird Estate -- What the Water Says -- 12. Into the Centre of Things: Poetic Travel Narratives in the Work of Kathleen Jamie and Nan Shepherd -- 13. ‘Connective Leaps’: Sightlines and The Overhaul -- To KJ, in her Attic -- 14. Life Lines, Sight Lines: Collaborative Works -- 15. Midlife Music: The Overhaul and Frissure -- 16. ‘We Do Language Like Spiders Do Webs’: Kathleen Jamie and Michael Longley in Conversation -- Notes on Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index