Rachel Falconer (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780748696000
- eISBN:
- 9781474422284
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748696000.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Women's Literature
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 ...
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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 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. In this collection of sixteen originally commissioned essays, the range of Jamie’s writing, from Black Spiders (1982) to Frissure (2013) is discussed, with attention both to her poetry, and new nature writing essays in prose. The collection adopts a range of critical approaches to Jamie’s work: ecocritical, formalist, philosophical, biographical, socio-political, gender-studies oriented, comparative, and more. There is a comprehensive Bibliography containing the only complete account to date, of Jamie’s works, including review, occasional poems, and radio interviews; as well as a survey of critical writing on Jamie and a list of awards for her work, up to 2015. The volume also breaks new ground formally by including original creative responses to Jamie’s work, with poems by leading contemporary poets including Michael Longley, Leontia Flynn and Fiona Sampson, among others. An original sound-recording archive of Jamie reading poems discussed at length in the volume, created in 2015, is also held at Edinburgh University Press, and is accessible only to readers of the volume.Less
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 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. In this collection of sixteen originally commissioned essays, the range of Jamie’s writing, from Black Spiders (1982) to Frissure (2013) is discussed, with attention both to her poetry, and new nature writing essays in prose. The collection adopts a range of critical approaches to Jamie’s work: ecocritical, formalist, philosophical, biographical, socio-political, gender-studies oriented, comparative, and more. There is a comprehensive Bibliography containing the only complete account to date, of Jamie’s works, including review, occasional poems, and radio interviews; as well as a survey of critical writing on Jamie and a list of awards for her work, up to 2015. The volume also breaks new ground formally by including original creative responses to Jamie’s work, with poems by leading contemporary poets including Michael Longley, Leontia Flynn and Fiona Sampson, among others. An original sound-recording archive of Jamie reading poems discussed at length in the volume, created in 2015, is also held at Edinburgh University Press, and is accessible only to readers of the volume.
Rachel Falconer
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780748696000
- eISBN:
- 9781474422284
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748696000.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Women's Literature
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, ...
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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, Frissures (2013), this introduction assesses Kathleen Jamie’s contribution to contemporary poetry on a national and international scale. Restless, complex and intelligent, yet always lucid and clear, Jamie's imagination is of that rare kind that resonates with every kind of reader, from general readers to specialists. This introduction argues that Kathleen Jamie has emerged as a writer of singular originality, skill and artistic vision. Her vision casts light on the way we live in relation to non-human beings in the twenty-first century, and it stimulates us into imagining how we might live better, with a greater awareness, appreciation and responsiveness to our environment than we currently do.Less
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, Frissures (2013), this introduction assesses Kathleen Jamie’s contribution to contemporary poetry on a national and international scale. Restless, complex and intelligent, yet always lucid and clear, Jamie's imagination is of that rare kind that resonates with every kind of reader, from general readers to specialists. This introduction argues that Kathleen Jamie has emerged as a writer of singular originality, skill and artistic vision. Her vision casts light on the way we live in relation to non-human beings in the twenty-first century, and it stimulates us into imagining how we might live better, with a greater awareness, appreciation and responsiveness to our environment than we currently do.
