Jamie Kathleen

Kathleen Jamie was born in Renfrewshire, Scotland, in 1962. He studied philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He has published several collections of poetry: Black Spiders (1982); The Way We Live (1987); The Queen of Sheba (1994), Jizzen (1999), The Tree House (2004), The Overhaul (2012), The Bonniest Companie (2015).
He has received prestigious awards for his poetry, which a Somerset Maugham Award, a Forward Poetry Prize (Best Single Poem), a Paul Hamlyn Award and a Creative Scotland Award. Twice he won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Its volume of selected poems, Mr & Mrs Scotland Are Dead (2002), which collects most of the poetry written before 1994, was a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize. In 2004 his collection The Tree House (2004) won the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year) in 2005 and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award. His collection, The Overhaul (2012) won the prestigious Costa Award and was a finalist for the TS Eliot Prize. In 2013 the publishing house published Frissure Polygon, a collaboration between Kathleen Jamie and artist and illustrator Brigid Collins.
Jamie also writes non-fiction: a travel book in northern Pakistan, The Golden Peak (1993), updated and re-released as Among Muslims: Meetings at the Frontiers of Pakistan, in 2002; Findings (2005), a collection of essays and reflections on his native Scotland, its flora and its fauna, on the Neolithic settlements of the islands, and in 2012, Sightlines, another book of essays and observations on other trips she made in the islands Orkney and in other almost uninhabited islands off the Scottish coast.
Kathleen Jamie writes for radio, especially travel books, or poems to her commissioned by the BBC for special occasions. In 2008, The Whale Road, a program on the whale arches in the UK, was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and in 2011, Norn But Not Forgotten, on the revival of poetry in the dialect of the Shetlands, was broadcast by Radio Scotland.
Jamie lives in Fife, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and in 2011 became Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Stirling.
His poetry after 1994 is published by Picador Macmillan.

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La casa sull'albero (poesie scelte) (Code: 978-88-6644-276-9)

the immediacy combined with the depth of thought

Manufacturer: Jamie Kathleen

EUR 15,00

: 2016

: 180 pagine

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