Cairn

Kathleen Jamie

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.

Author(s): Jamie, Kathleen
Binding: Paperback
Date of Publication: 20/06/2024
Pagination: 160 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: Sort Of Books
Published By: Sort Of Books
Book Classification: Literary essays|Nature & the natural world: general interest
Dimensions: 198x128x22
Weight: 179
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781914502002