The Bonniest Companie - Softcover

Jamie, Kathleen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1509801715 ISBN 13: 9781509801718

Verlag: Picador, 2015

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In her extraordinary collection, Kathleen Jamie examines her native Scotland - a country at once wild and contained, rural and urban - and her place within it. In the author's own words: '2014 was a year of tremendous energy in my native Scotland, and knowing I wanted to embrace that energy and participate in my own way, I resolved to write a poem a week, and follow the cycle of the year.' The poems also venture into childhood and family memory - and look to ahead to the future. The Bonniest Companie is a visionary response to a year shaped and charged by both local and global forces, and will stand as a remarkable document of our times.

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An engaging and energetic collection that follows the cycle of a year, cycles within cycles, the migrations of birds and people. The many voices of Scotland's natural and social worlds combine to create an outstanding aural map of our times -- Jackie Kay * Herald *

Contraportada:

'Jamie's shape-shifting, metaphorical imagination startles the mind awake' Guardian

'With each successive theme to which Jamie turns her vision she brings the gift of insight . . . poetry of stunning clarity and musicality' Scotsman

Kathleen Jamie's first collection since the Costa-prize winning The Overhaul addresses her native Scotland and her own place within it, revealing a country at once wild and contained, rural and urban. In the words of the author: '2014 was a year of tremendous energy, and, knowing I wanted to embrace that energy and participate in my own way, I resolved to write a poem a week, following the cycle of the year.'

More than any other poet writing today, Jamie's simultaneous attunement to the political, social and natural realms demonstrates their interpenetration and interdependence. Vivid with the fauna and flora of Scotland, alive with its various voices, and charged with a genuine sense of agency, her work redefines what we mean by 'poetic engagement'. Venturing into memories of childhood and family, and looking ahead to the future, The Bonniest Companie is a visionary response to a year shaped and charged by both local and global forces; it will stand as a remarkable document of our times.

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• Verlag: Picador
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1509801715
• ISBN 13: 9781509801718
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 64