{"title":"Kathleen Jamie","description":"\u003cp\u003eKathleen Jamie's work invites readers into a rich exploration of landscape, memory, and observation, blending poetry and prose with a profound sensitivity to the natural world. Her writings, such as \u003cem\u003eCairn\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSurfacing\u003c\/em\u003e, offer meditative reflections that traverse both personal and cultural terrain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in the categories of \u003cstrong\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/strong\u003e, Jamie's books illuminate the subtle connections between place and identity, delivering a contemplative experience that resonates with those who appreciate literary craftsmanship and a deep engagement with the environment.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"cairn-by-kathleen-jamie-9781914502002","title":"Cairn","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'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 off guard ... it is what art or, in this case, wonderful writing can do.' - Kate Kellaway, Observer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCairn\u003c\/i\u003e: 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCairn\u003c\/i\u003e resonates with a beauty and wisdom that only an artist of Jamie's calibre could achieve.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46843232059628,"sku":"9781914502002","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/a4d2f03b45b5e3fc6553cfb1024b4042.jpg?v=1758795737"},{"product_id":"surfacing-by-kathleen-jamie-9781908745828","title":"Surfacing","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLonglisted for the Highland Book Prize, 2019.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUnder the ravishing light of an Alaskan sky, objects are spilling from the thawing tundra linking a Yup'ik village to its hunter-gatherer past. In the shifting sand dunes of a Scottish shoreline, impressively preserved hearths and homes of Neolithic farmers are uncovered. In a grandmother's disordered mind, memories surface of a long-ago mining accident and a 'mither who was kind'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor this luminous new essay collection, acclaimed author Kathleen Jamie visits archaeological sites and mines her own memories—of her grandparents, of youthful travels—to explore what surfaces and what reconnects us to our past. As always she looks to the natural world for her markers and guides. Most movingly, she considers, as her father dies, and her children leave home, the surfacing of an older, less tethered sense of herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSurfacing\u003c\/em\u003e offers a profound sense of time passing and an antidote to all that is instant, ephemeral, unrooted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471656861932,"sku":"9781908745828","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781908745828-surfacing.jpg?v=1775248953"},{"product_id":"the-keelie-hawk-by-kathleen-jamie-9781529095593","title":"The Keelie Hawk","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Keelie Hawk\u003c\/em\u003e is a landmark poetry collection from Kathleen Jamie, the current Makar (National Poet) of Scotland. 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