“Dirt, And Spit, And Poetry”: The Changing Shape Of Kathleen Jamie’s Writing

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“Dirt, And Spit, And Poetry”: The Changing Shape Of Kathleen Jamie’s Writing

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Scottish poet, Kathleen Jamie, published her first collection of poetry in 1982 and over the past three decades her work has observed and explored a transitory phase in Scottish constitutional politics. This thesis examines the interweaving of the personal and political in Jamie's career, from her earliest works which went on to inspire Carol Ann Duffy's feminist oeuvre, to her more recent forays into eco-poetry and non-fiction prose. Although Jamie's writing undoubtedly goes through distinct...

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Scholarly text / Thesis

Thesis level

Masters

Date created

2015

Creator

Paterson, Sarah

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https://hdl.handle.net/10523/5843

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Scotland / Scottish / Scottish Literature / Scottish poetry / feminism / ecopoetry / ecopoetics / Kathleen Jamie / Jamie / prose / nature / writing / findings / sightlines / devolution / tree / house / overhaul / queen / Sheba / travel / Pakistan / among muslims / black spiders / referendum / 1990s / 1980s / millenium / childbirth / jizzen / birth / poetry / 2000s / 2010s

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