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    The Bonniest Companie
    The Bonniest Companie
    The Bonniest Companie
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    The Bonniest Companie

    By Kathleen Jamie

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    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPan Macmillan
    Release dateOct 8, 2015
    ISBN9781509801701
    The Bonniest Companie
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    Kathleen Jamie

    Award-winning poet, Kathleen Jamie was born in the west of Scotland in 1962. Her first travel book, Among Muslims (also published by Sort Of Books), was described as 'utterly luminous' (The Independent) and 'one of the most powerful accounts by a contemporary Western writer' (TLS). Her latest poetry collection, The Tree House (Picador), won the 2004 Forward prize. A part-time lecturer in Creative Writing at St Andrews University, Kathleen Jamie lives with her family in Fife.

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      The Bonniest Companie - Kathleen Jamie

      Acknowledgements

      MERLE

      The Shrew

      Take me to the river, but not right now,

      not in this cauld blast, this easterly

      striding up from the sea

      like a bitter shepherd –

      and as for you, you Arctic-hatched, comfy-looking geese

      occupying our fields,

      you needn’t head back north anytime soon –

      snow on the mountains, frozen ploughed clods –

      weeks of this now, enough’s enough

      – but when my hour comes,

      let me go like the shrew

      right here on the path: spindrift on her midget fur,

      caught mid-thought, mid-dash

      Glacial

      A thousand-foot slog, then a cairn of old stones –

      hand-shifted labour,

      and much the same river, shining

      way below

      as the Romans came, saw,

      and soon thought the better of.

      Too many mountains, too many

      wanchancy tribes

      whose habits we wouldn’t much care for

      (but could probably match),

      too much grim north, too much faraway snow.

      Let’s bide here a moment, catching our breath

      and inhaling the sweet scent of whatever

      whin-bush is flowering today

      and see for miles, all the way hence

      to the lynx’s return, the re-established wolf’s.

      Merle

      Thon blackbird in the briar

      by the outfield dyke

      doesn’t know he’s born

      doesn’t know he’s praise and part

      of this Sabbath forenoon

      north-Atlantic style.

      From his yellow beak his song descends

      to the year’s first celandines;

      his throat patters. With a yellow claw

      he scarts his left lug

      Soon the haar will burn off

      revealing the Rum Cuillin

      happed in March snow, and the waters of the Minch

      but for

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