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Waterlight: Selected Poems
The first U.S. publication of Scottish poet Kathleen Jamie, author of The Tree House, winner of the 2004 Forward Prize for best poetry collection

It isn't mine to give.
I can't coax this bird to my hand
that knows the depth of the river
yet sings of it on land.
—from "The Dipper"

For more than twenty years, Kathleen Jamie has been writing the poetry that has established her as "the leading Scottish poet of her generation" (The Sunday Times). Lyrical and meditative, her poems engage the natural world and human society with an authentic, earthly spirituality.

Waterlight at last makes Jamie's work available to American readers. Her poetry—rendered sometimes in the Scots dialect, sometimes in the descriptive bursts of a naturalist's field guide —confronts gender, sex, landscape, and nationhood with the vivacity of an essential poetic voice.

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Waterlight: Selected Poems
The first U.S. publication of Scottish poet Kathleen Jamie, author of The Tree House, winner of the 2004 Forward Prize for best poetry collection

It isn't mine to give.
I can't coax this bird to my hand
that knows the depth of the river
yet sings of it on land.
—from "The Dipper"

For more than twenty years, Kathleen Jamie has been writing the poetry that has established her as "the leading Scottish poet of her generation" (The Sunday Times). Lyrical and meditative, her poems engage the natural world and human society with an authentic, earthly spirituality.

Waterlight at last makes Jamie's work available to American readers. Her poetry—rendered sometimes in the Scots dialect, sometimes in the descriptive bursts of a naturalist's field guide —confronts gender, sex, landscape, and nationhood with the vivacity of an essential poetic voice.

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Waterlight: Selected Poems

Waterlight: Selected Poems

by Kathleen Jamie
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Waterlight: Selected Poems

Waterlight: Selected Poems

by Kathleen Jamie

Overview

The first U.S. publication of Scottish poet Kathleen Jamie, author of The Tree House, winner of the 2004 Forward Prize for best poetry collection

It isn't mine to give.
I can't coax this bird to my hand
that knows the depth of the river
yet sings of it on land.
—from "The Dipper"

For more than twenty years, Kathleen Jamie has been writing the poetry that has established her as "the leading Scottish poet of her generation" (The Sunday Times). Lyrical and meditative, her poems engage the natural world and human society with an authentic, earthly spirituality.

Waterlight at last makes Jamie's work available to American readers. Her poetry—rendered sometimes in the Scots dialect, sometimes in the descriptive bursts of a naturalist's field guide —confronts gender, sex, landscape, and nationhood with the vivacity of an essential poetic voice.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781555974657
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Publication date: 03/20/2007
Pages: 140
Product dimensions: 5.97(w) x 9.14(h) x 0.34(d)

About the Author

Kathleen Jamie was born in the west of Scotland in 1962. Her poetry has appeared in seven collections, and in the London Review of Books, The New Yorker, The Times Literary Supplement, and elsewhere. She teaches at St. Andrews University and lives in Fife, Scotland.

Table of Contents


From The Tree House
The Wishing Tree     3
Frogs     5
Alder     6
Water Day     7
The Cave of the Fish     9
For When the Grape-vine's Sap     10
Before the Wind     11
Speirin     12
The Bower     13
Swallows     14
The Blue Boat     15
The Glass-hulled Boat     16
White-sided Dolphins     17
Basking Shark     18
The Whale-watcher     20
The Buddleia     21
Hame     22
Pipistrelles     23
Daisies     24
Rhododendrons     25
Moult     26
The Falcon     27
The Tree House     28
The Cupboard     30
The Creel     31
The Brooch     32
The Puddle     33
The Dipper     35
From Jizzen
Crossing the Loch     39
The Graduates     41
Forget It     43
The Barrel Annunciation     47
The Bogey-wife     48
Ultrasound     49
The Tay Moses     57
Bonaly     59
Mrs McKellar, her martyrdom     60
Flower-sellers, Budapest     62
Song of Sunday     64
Hackit     66
Pioneers     68
Suitcases     69
Lochan     70
Rhododendrons     71
Lucky Bag     73
The Well at the Broch of Gurness     74
St Brides     75
The Green Woman     76
Bolus     77
On the Design Chosen for the New Scottish Parliament Building   Architect Enric Miralles     78
Meadowsweet     79
From Mr and Mrs Scotland Are Dead
Julian of Norwich     83
The Queen of Sheba     85
Hand Relief     89
Child with Pillar Box and Bin Bags     90
Fountain     91
Wee Wifey     92
Outreach     93
Perfect Day     95
Mr and Mrs Scotland Are Dead     96
Arraheids     98
Sky-burial     99
Swallows and Swifts     102
The Sea-house     103
Rooms     105
At Point of Ness     106
Skeins o Geese      108
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