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T1 Changing Places with What Goes Before: The Po¬ etry of Kathleen Jamie
A1 Monnickendam, Andrew
AB Jon Coreli’s essay “From Scotland to Suburbia: A Landscape ofCurrent British Poetry,” published in Chapman (1997) concluded that“today’s best British Poetry [...] is associated with Scotland [...] Thework of these Scottish poets exemplifies many of the qualities which Ipersonally find most appealing in poetry: a diction which is both naturallycolloquial and deliberately poetic, the ability to express intenseemotion with unapologetic directness [...]” is well justified by the workof Kathleen Jamie, who will be the centre of attention of this article. Mystarting point will be her evocative poem “Mr and Mrs Scotland areDead,” an obituary-cum-requiem for a real but simultaneously representativecouple, identifiable as working-class Scots, with a clear senseof values as concerns their class, gender role and national identity. Becausemodernity has erased or partially obscured these parameters, muchcontemporary poetry either looks backward to when Mr and Mrs Scotlandwere alive, or tries to come to terms with a new set of definingconcepts. I will also lean heavily on Kathleen Jamie’s travel writing,and in particular The Golden Peak: Travels in Northern Pakistan (1992).
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