...Surveying the range of Kathleen Jamie's corpus to date, from the earliest collection of verse (Black Spiders, 1982 ) to her poetry collection The Overhaul (2012), her volume of nature essays, Sightlines (2012), and her mixed media work...

...This is an exploration of Kathleen Jamie’s ‘poetics of listening’, a consideration of the importance of ‘listening' within her poetic practice. A 'poetics of listening' is compared with the notion that a poet must first and foremost ‘find their voice’. Close examination of Jamie's poems suggests...

... myths myth making birds emigration Virgil Brown George Mackay Reggio Godfrey vernacular Scots Gairn Louisa MacDiarmid Hugh Kathleen Jamie anti-urban ecological ecopoetics nonhuman place The Queen of Sheba Speaking in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland in August 2013, Kathleen Jamie remarked...

... history Muir Edwin rhyme Borges Jorge Luis Highland clearances Kathleen Jamie Jizzen Birth Birthright belonging ‘To the day of St. Bride,/the first sweet-wild weeks of your life/I willingly surrender’: the last tercet of Jamie’s ‘February’ concentrates a fiercely tender chiaroscuro of birth...

...This chapter addresses the questions of how humans interact with the natural landscape and the status of poets – as opposed to scientists and activists – in this interaction. It focuses on the recent poetry of Kathleen Jamie in the context of contemporary ecocriticism and prose non-fiction accounts...

...This chapter discusses the use and workings of form in Kathleen Jamie’s The Tree House. It explores how she balances the claims of modernity and tradition, how she deploys an idiom that combines dialect, the demotic and the literary. It argues that the volume’s use of form...

...Kathleen Jamie has long been interested in the complex intersections of personal and national identity. This chapter takes up the theme of the individual poetic voice working in collaboration with other voices - other artists, writers, and members of local and national communities. The discussion...

... and philosophy. Provocative re-readings of works by authors including Robert Louis Stevenson, John Muir, Nan Shepherd, John Burnside, Kathleen Jamie, and George Mackay Brown demonstrate the significance of ecological thought across the spectrum of Scottish literary culture. This book traces the influence...

... Soyinka Wole Battle of Bannockburn site Stirling Enlightenment history landscape Miralles Enric Scottish Parliament Edinburgh birds Burns Robert Henderson Hamish Scottish independence Kathleen Jamie Scots language The Autonomous Region Scottishness Liminality Tibetan history At the end...

... Duffy Carol Ann Brown Rhona Gumbrecht Hans Ulrich Lévi Strauss Claude Mauss Marcel Kathleen Jamie Jizzen National identity Difference Intertextuality childhood collectivity defamiliarisation migration In a recent discussion of W. S. Graham, Natalie Pollard highlights what Graham terms...

...This chapter discusses how, in Kathleen Jamie’s The Tree House, intertextual repetends draw attention to the responsive and mutable nature of language in order to ask questions about compositions of place within the natural world. It suggests that repeated words alter in meaning...

... landscape Bell John dissection Vesalius Andreas birth engravings Hunter William language Peu Phillippe Scarpa Antonio Lizar John myths myth making Rymer Thomas vernacular Scots rhyme Gilman Sander Quain Richard Kathleen Jamie This Weird Estate Literature and environment Ecocriticism...

... MacDiarmid Hugh science Shepherd Nan The Living Mountain archaeology Bachelard Gaston history pathetic fallacy self selfhood identity Maes Howe Orkney alliteration animal encounters Burns Robert MacCaig Norman sonnets Morton Timothy Shepard Paul complicity Kathleen Jamie The Overhaul...

... Romanticism Collins Brigid mortality self selfhood Spencer Eleanor birds Burns Robert couplets poetic forms sonnets birth ‘fairyland’ home theme animal encounters childhood contagion Homer Lacoue Labarthe Philippe Hölderlin Friedrich quatrains Kathleen Jamie The Overhaul Frissure...

... McDonald Peter nature Orkney ‘fairyland’ Leighton Angela Yeats W B listening self selfhood Corcoran Neil repetition Bowen Elizabeth Longley Sarah Shetlands Viney Michael death Japanese art Mahon Derek Moore Marianne poetic friendships sonnets Stevens Wallace witchcraft Kathleen Jamie...

...This volume constitutes the first collection of scholarly essays devoted to a sustained critical assessment of the writings of Kathleen Jamie, one of Scotland’s leading contemporary poets. Nationally and internationally acclaimed since her first major publications in the 1980s, Kathleen Jamie...

...This chapter demonstrates that John Burnside, Kathleen Jamie, and Alan Warner were not only reviewing human relationships with nature, but also the role that writing has to play in exploring and strengthening that relationship, helping to determine the ecological ‘value’ of poetry and fiction...

... equal in its importance to that marked in 1981 by the publication of Alasdair Gray’s Lanark. Through an analysis of works ranging from James Robertson’s historical novels, David Greig’s stage adaptation of Lanark and Kathleen Jamie’s nonfiction to the recent...

...This assesses Kathleen Jamie's use of Scots across a range of her poetry, but it also has some qualities of a personal tribute by a fellow contemporary poet. Beginning with a discussion of Jamie's collection, The Autonomous Region, Crawford assesses the use of Scots elsewhere...

... Brigid Oppen George Kathleen Jamie Jizzen The Tree House The Overhaul Cartography Map-making Jamie and Yeats Jamie and Seamus Heaney ‘Art proceeds without a map’, Kathleen Jamie has written of the act of finishing a book: ‘It seems to me that if you know precisely what you’ve done, or are going...