Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1914502000
ISBN-13
9781914502002
Edition
Main
Publisher
Sort of Books
Imprint
Sort of Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 20th, 2024
Print length
144 Pages
Weight
174 grams
Dimensions
13.00 x 19.90 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Literary essays
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Innovative non-fiction by one of the pioneers of new nature writing
''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 offguard ... it is what art or, in this case, wonderful writing can do'' Kate Kellaway, ObserverCairn: 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.
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