The Bonniest Companie |
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| Author:
| Jamie, Kathleen |
| ISBN: | 978-1-5098-0760-4 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2015 |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $24.95 |
Book Description:
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In her extraordinary new 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....
More DescriptionIn her extraordinary new 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 visionary response to a year shaped and charged by both local and global forces, and will stand as a remarkable document of our times.