Award-winning poet, Kathleen Jamie was born in the west of Scotland in 1962. Her first travel book, Among Muslims (also published by Sort Of Books), was described as 'utterly luminous' (The Independent) and 'one of the most powerful accounts by a contemporary Western writer' (TLS). Her latest poetry collection, The Tree House (Picador), won the 2004 Forward prize. A part-time lecturer in Creative Writing at St Andrews University, Kathleen Jamie lives with her family in Fife.
Prose essays of a sharpness of looking, and directness of thought,
that will make them last a long time; some of the best writing out
of rural Scotland for many decades. Jamie observes the
extraordinary, alien natural world around her with a frank
uncluttered candour, while nevertheless standing rooted in the
middle of modern family life.
*Andrew Marr*
Kathleen Jamie is a supreme listener. Her attention - to the
beckoning calls of the peregrines that nest near her house, to the
brimful darkness in the neolithic chambers at Maes Howe, to the
mute appeals of embryo skeletons in a medical museum - has a
directness that borders on the heroic. And in the quietness of her
listening, you hear her own voice: clear, subtle, respectful, and
so unquenchably curious that it makes the world anew. This is as
close as writing gets to a conversation with the natural world.
*Richard Mabey*
From the moment you meet Kathleen Jamie's words, you meet a passion
for the environment, not as an abstract quality but as what
surrounds her...the small birds in the garden, the landscapes of
her native Scotland, even ordinary familiar domestic cares are
illuminated with curiosity, affection, knowledge and a deep
concern.
*Rosalind Coward, writer and journalist*
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