Kathleen Jamie
Autor/a de Findings
Sobre l'autor
Kathleen Jamie is a part-time lecturer in creative writing at St. Andrews University.
Obres de Kathleen Jamie
Skeins o'geese 1 exemplars
The Green Room 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Archipelago, Number Nine (Winter 2014) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1962-05-13
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- Lloc de naixement
- Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
- Llocs de residència
- Fife, Scotland, UK
- Educació
- University of Edinburgh (MA)
- Professions
- Professor of Poetry
poet
essayist - Relacions
- Dee, Tim (travel companion)
- Organitzacions
- University of St Andrews
Stirling University - Premis i honors
- Eric Gregory Award (1981)
Royal Society of Literature (fellow)
Scots Makar (2021)
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 28
- També de
- 9
- Membres
- 1,409
- Popularitat
- #18,236
- Valoració
- 4.1
- Ressenyes
- 34
- ISBN
- 68
- Llengües
- 6
- Preferit
- 7
Starting in a cave in the West Highlands, a cave where bone sfrom a bear that lived 45,000 years ago were found, she contemplates the changes in topography since then. Ice ages have come and gone twice. the last one 10,000 years ago. In "the great scheme of things", are we living through "a warm bank holiday weekend" before the glaciers return, or will the earth continue to heat up as Jamie seems to believe?
What the retreat of ice and glaciers has revealed are traces of past cultures, surfacing after hundreds of years. Two of the essays here each capture a village recently revealed, but only for now, both under threat from coastal erosion and wind: Quinhagak Alaska, a village by the Bering Sea, the other a Neolithic farming community in Orkney. Jamie's explorations are usually in the north, "a place of entrancing desolation".
Jamie has been called the leading Scottish poet of her generation. Words and their meaning are critical to her. She contemplates a remark about the early Neolithic farmers, knowing they were only a step away from the wild: I began to wonder what it might have meant to them then, back when 'wild' was a new idea. Did stories linger of a way of life before farming, before cattle raising and sheep? Did 'the wild' thrill them, darkly? Shame them?
Who were the people who lived in these places? What happened to them? These aren't new thoughts, but Jamie builds on them: … (més)