The Keelie Hawk

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Jamie's poetry offers a new way of seeing the world and a new form of intelligence about ourselves and other species . . . This generous, inquisitive book helps us re-engage with the world by unlearning our familiar sightlines. -- Kit Fan, <i>The Guardian</i> [Kathleen Jamie] has perfect pitch, a natural sense of cadence and verbal melody that helps to give her work the feel of organic inevitability -- Michael Longley 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 on <i>The Bonniest Companie</i> Both poem and translation are so engaging and vital - whatever language Kathleen works in, she conjures it to life . . . It's an antidote to the dominance of Standard English, and broadens our scope for self-expression. -- John Glenday, author of <i> The Golden Mean<i/> Jamie illuminates the mysterious force of poetry in our lives as an unending shadow-play of art and nature, self and soul. * The Guardian * The poems reflect a rare intimacy with nature, recalling a time when everything in the natural world was seen as metaphor. The intimacy and the curiosity allows questions to open up poems to the reader . . . some of the short lyrics here are perfect -- Tom Pow, poet and Scottish Book Award-winning author of <i>Dear Alice</i>