Sightlines by Kathleen Jamie
£9.99
The outer world flew open like a door, and I wondered – what is it that we’re just not seeing?
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In this greatly anticipated sequel to Findings, prize-winning poet and renowned nature writer Kathleen Jamie takes a fresh look at her native Scottish landscapes, before sailing north into iceberg-strewn seas.
Her gaze swoops vertiginously too; from a countryside of cells beneath a hospital microscope, to killer whales rounding a headland, to the constellations of satellites that belie our sense of the remote. Written with her hallmark precision and delicacy, and marked by moments in her own life, Sightlines offers a rare invitation to pause and to pay heed to our surroundings.
“A haunting new collection from one of our finest nature writers” – the Sunday Times
“Kathleen Jamie writes with unparalleled beauty, sharpness of observation, wit, delicacy, strength of vision and rare exactness of language.” – Daily Telegraph
“It finds without disturbing the found. And this takes courage and delicacy” – John Berger, Guardian Books of the Year
“Exquisite . . . There is such a precision, of both thinking and seeing, displayed in these works that you would have to be a very obtuse kind of reader not to realise that Jamie is a poet.” – the Scotsman
Publisher: Sort of Books
ISBN: 9780956308665
Number of pages: 208
Weight: 280 g
Dimensions: 196 x 130 x 26 mm
Edition: Main
