Publication Date: 20/06/2024 ISBN: 9781914502002 Category:

Cairn

Kathleen Jamie

Publisher: Sort of Books
Publication Date: 20/06/2024 ISBN: 9781914502002 Category:
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‘This marvel of a book is a profound meditation on the precariousness of the planet … these pieces kept bringing tears to my eyes, catching me offguard … it is what art or, in this case, wonderful writing can do’
Kate Kellaway, Observer

Cairn: A marker on open land, a memorial, a viewpoint shared by strangers.

For the last five years poet and author Kathleen Jamie has been turning her attention to a new form of writing: micro-essays, prose poems, notes and fragments. Placed together, like the stones of a wayside cairn, they mark a changing psychic and physical landscape.

The virtuosity of these short pieces is both subtle and deceptive. Jamie’s intent ‘noticing’ of the natural world is suffused with a clear-eyed awareness of all we endanger. She considers the future her children face, while recalling her own childhood and notes the lost innocence in the way we respond to the dramas of nature. With meticulous care she marks the point she has reached, in life and within the cascading crises of our times.

Cairn resonates with a beauty and wisdom that only an artist of Jamie’s calibre could achieve.

Publisher Review

Praise for the Findings trilogy:

A sorceress of the essay form. Never exotic, down to earth, she renders the indefinable to the reader’s ear — John Berger Kathleen Jamie is a supreme listener … clear, subtle, respectful, and so unquenchably curious that it makes the world anew — Richard Mabey A book of unparalleled beauty and rare exactness of language * Sunday Telegraph * I put the book down again and thought: ‘I wonder if I would actually kill to be able to write, or think, like that — Nicholas Lezard * The Guardian * It is not often that the prose of a poet is as powerful as her verse, but Jamie’s is — Diana Athill * Literary Review *

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