Kathleen Jamie: Essays and Poems on Her Work

ISBN-13: 9780748696000 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 216 str.

Rachel Falconer

Opis

These 16 newly commissioned critical essays and 7 previously unpublished poems by leading poets make up the first full-length study of Kathleen Jamie's writing.

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Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 'Inlet', Michael Longley; 1. Introduction, Rachel Falconer; 2. A Poetics of Listening, Faith Lawrence; 'Off the page', Roderick Watson; 3. Mr and Mrs Scotland Are Taking a Vacation in the Autonomous Region, Alan Riach; 4. Kathleen’s Scots, Robert Crawford; 'A man, a former environmental activist turned PR consultant for logging companies, defends his choices', Leontia Flynn; 5. Transcending the Urban: The Queen of Sheba, Amanda Bell; 6. 'Proceeding Without a Map’: Kathleen Jamie and the Lie of the Land, David Wheatley; 'What the Water Says', Fiona Sampson; 7. ‘An Orderly Rabble’: Plural Identities in Jizzen, Timothy L. Baker; 8. 'Sweet-wild weeks’: Birth, Being and Belonging in Jizzen; Juliet Simpson; 'Even If', Michael O'Neill; 9. ‘The Tilt from One Parish to Another’: The Tree House and Findings, Peter Mackay; 10. Repetition, Return and the Negotiation of Place in The Tree House, Lynn Davidson; 11. Form in The Tree House, Michael O’Neill; 'Hibernaculum', Jamie McKendrick; 12. Nature and Embodiment in This Weird Estate. Lucy Collins; 13. ‘Into the Centre of Things’: Poetic Travel Narratives by Jamie and Shepherd, Eleanor Bell; 14. ‘Connective Leaps’: Sightlines and The Overhaul, Louisa Gairn; 'The view, the light', Andrew Greig; 15. Life Lines, Sight Lines: Collaborative Works, Eleanor Spencer; 16. Midlife Music: The Overhaul and Frissure, Rachel Falconer; 17. ‘We do language like spiders do webs’: Kathleen Jamie and Michael Longley in Conversation, Maria Johnston; Notes on Contributors; Bibliography