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Sightlines

Kathleen Jamie

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English
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01 May 2012
The outer world flew open like a door, and I wondered - what is it that we're just not seeing?

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.

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Imprint:   Sort of Books
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   Main
Dimensions:   Height: 196mm,  Width: 130mm,  Spine: 26mm
Weight:   280g
ISBN:   9780956308665
ISBN 10:   095630866X
Pages:   208
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Multi-award winning poet Kathleen Jamie was born in the west of Scotland in 1962. She has written two works of non-fiction: Among Muslims, an acclaimed travel narrative, and Findings, the ground-breaking nature/travel book set in Scotland. She lives in Fife and is a Professor of Creative Writing at Stirling University.

Reviews for Sightlines

Praise for Findings: '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 Her acheivement is to make us look again with completeluy fresh eyes at those creatures and places we had long presumed to know -- Mark Cocker


  • Winner of Costa Poetry Award 2012
  • Winner of Costa Poetry Award 2012.

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