Waterlight: Selected Poems
Waterlight: Selected Poems by Kathleen Jamie is the first U.S. publication of the acclaimed Scottish poet, released by Graywolf Press on March 20, 2007. This collection spans 140 pages and showcases Jamie’s lyrical and meditative style, engaging with themes of the natural world and human society through an authentic, earthly spirituality.
Readers will discover a diverse range of poems that reflect Jamie’s unique voice, often incorporating Scots dialect alongside vivid descriptions reminiscent of a naturalist’s field guide. The collection addresses complex topics such as gender, landscape, and nationhood, offering insights into the interconnectedness of these elements. Waterlight presents an opportunity for American readers to explore the work of a poet recognized as a significant figure in contemporary poetry.
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The first U.S. publication of Scottish poet Kathleen Jamie, author of The Tree House, winner of the 2004 Forward Prize for best poetry collection
It isn’t mine to give.
I can’t coax this bird to my hand
that knows the depth of the river
yet sings of it on land.
―from “The Dipper”
For more than twenty years, Kathleen Jamie has been writing the poetry that has established her as “the leading Scottish poet of her generation” (The Sunday Times). Lyrical and meditative, her poems engage the natural world and human society with an authentic, earthly spirituality.
Waterlight at last makes Jamie’s work available to American readers. Her poetry―rendered sometimes in the Scots dialect, sometimes in the descriptive bursts of a naturalist’s field guide ―confronts gender, sex, landscape, and nationhood with the vivacity of an essential poetic voice.
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