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.
Publisher: Sort of Books
ISBN: 9780956308665
Number of pages: 208
Weight: 280 g
Dimensions: 196 x 130 x 26 mm
Edition: Main
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
This book is just lovely. It takes you to places you'll never go to, and gets you in touch with feelings you can only half remember, but you're richer and wiser for the experience.
Kathleen Jamie is a poet and a beautiful writer but also a remarkably observant person. She notices things that the rest of us miss or take for granted. Ink-blue fissures of icebergs, cells under a microscope or the... More
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