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

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 i...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.)
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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