Kathleen Jamie: Essays and Poems on Her Work

Rachel Falconer

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2014

Kathleen Jamie

Essays and Poems on Her Work

Rachel Falconer

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748696017

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About this book

The first collection of critical essays on the writing of Kathleen Jamie

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 These 16 newly commissioned critical essays and 7 previously unpublished poems by leading poets make up the first full-length study of Kathleen Jamie's writing.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.

Key Features

Presents the first collection of scholarly essays on Kathleen Jamie, one of the UK's foremost living poets
Contains creative responses to Jamie's work by leading Scottish, Irish and English poets, including Michael Longley, Andrew Greig, Leontia Flynn and Jamie McKendrick
Provides a full bibliography of works by and about Kathleen Jamie
Includes audio recordings of Kathleen Jamie, reading from works discussed in the volume, available on the resources tab

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	iii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Abbreviations and Citations Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Introduction Rachel Falconer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Inlet Michael Longley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
1. A Poetics of Listening Faith Lawrence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	10
2. Mr and Mrs Scotland Are Taking a Vacation in the Autonomous Region Alan Riach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Off the Page Kathleen Jamie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
3. Kathleen’s Scots Robert Crawford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
4. Transcending the Urban: The Queen of Sheba Amanda Bell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
Hibernaculum Jamie McKendrick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
5. ‘Proceeding Without a Map’: Kathleen Jamie and the Lie of the Land David Wheatley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
6. ‘An Orderly Rabble’: Plural Identities in Jizzen Timothy L. Baker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
7. ‘Sweet-Wild Weeks’: Birth, Being and Belonging in Jizzen Juliet Simpson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Even If Michael O’Neill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
8. ‘The Tilt from One Parish to Another’: The Tree House and Findings Peter Mackay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
9. Repetition, Return and the Negotiation of Place in The Tree House Lynn Davidson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
A Man, a Former Environmental Activist Turned PR Consultant for Logging Companies, Defends His Choices Leontia Flynn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
10. Form in The Tree House Michael O’Neill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
11. Nature and Embodiment in This Weird Estate Lucy Collins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
What the Water Says Fiona Sampson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
12. Into the Centre of Things: Poetic Travel Narratives in the Work of Kathleen Jamie and Nan Shepherd Eleanor Bell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
13. ‘Connective Leaps’: Sightlines and The Overhaul Louisa Gairn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
To KJ, in her Attic Andrew Greig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
14. Life Lines, Sight Lines: Collaborative Works Eleanor Spencer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
15. Midlife Music: The Overhaul and Frissure Rachel Falconer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
16. ‘We Do Language Like Spiders Do Webs’: Kathleen Jamie and Michael Longley in Conversation Maria Johnston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	180
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	184
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 216
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: December 9, 2014
ISBN: 9780748696017