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The Bonniest Companie

Kathleen Jamie author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Pan Macmillan

Published:8th Oct '15

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The latest poetry collection from the prize-winning Kathleen Jamie.

In her extraordinary collection, Kathleen Jamie examines her native Scotland - a country at once wild and contained, rural and urban - and her place within it. In the author's own words: '2014 was a year of tremendous energy in my native Scotland, and knowing I wanted to embrace that energy and participate in my own way, I resolved to write a poem a week, and follow the cycle of the year.' The poems also venture into childhood and family memory - and look to ahead to the future.

The Bonniest Companie is a visionary response to a year shaped and charged by both local and global forces, and will stand as a remarkable document of our times.

An engaging and energetic collection that follows the cycle of a year, cycles within cycles, the migrations of birds and people. The many voices of Scotland’s natural and social worlds combine to create an outstanding aural map of our times -- Jackie Kay * Herald *

  • Winner of Saltire Society Book of the Year Award 2016 (UK)
  • Short-listed for Roehampton Poetry Prize 2016 (UK)

ISBN: 9781509801718

Dimensions: 197mm x 153mm x 7mm

Weight: 120g

80 pages