Kathleen Jamie

Kathleen Jamie, award winning poet, has an eye and an ease with the nature and landscapes of Scotland as well as an incisive sense of our domestic realities. In these poems she creates a subtle and modern narrative, peculiarly alive to her connections and surroundings.

Prize-winning poet and renowned nature writer Kathleen Jamie takes a fresh look at her native Scottish landscapes. Written with her hallmark precision and delicacy, and marked by moments in her own life, she offers a rare invitation to pause and to pay heed to our surroundings.

In this luminous essay collection, acclaimed author Kathleen Jamie visits archeological sites and mines her own memories – of her grandparents, of youthful travels – to explore what surfaces and what reconnects us to our past. As always she looks to the natural world for her markers and guides. Most movingly, she considers, as her father dies and her children leave home, the surfacing of an older, less tethered sense of herself.

Kathleen Jamie's award-winning poetry collection is a lyrical enquiry into the aspects of the world our rushing lives elide, and even threaten. A mid-life book of repair, restitution, and ultimately hope -- of the wisest and most worldly kind.