These poems unfold with a supernatural intensity, alternately dark and celebratory, that set them apart from other treatments of the subject. Through the perspectives of emigrant and native, critic and intimate, Jamie addresses Scotland in all its living complexity.
Jizzen reveals a writer coming into poetic maturity just as her nation begins to fully assume its own identity. The result is a poetry worldly and other-worldly, remarkable it its humanity, political sophistication and lyric authority.
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Remember how we rowed towards the cottage on the sickle-shaped bay that one night after the pub loosed us through its swinging doors CROSSING THE LOCH
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(@panmacmillan, 22 December 2011, ebook, 64 pages, borrowed from @GlasgowLib via @OverDriveInc)
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I'm a fan of this poet after reading other collections so was looking forward to reading Jizzen. I enjoyed this collection. The poets are what I've come to expect from Jamie, full of beautiful language and imagery and diverse in range and subject matter. This was a pleasure to read.