{"product_id":"waterlight-book-kathleen-jamie-9781555974657","title":"Waterlight","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first U.S. publication of Scottish poet Kathleen Jamie, author of The\u003ci\u003eTree House\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 2004 Forward Prize for best poetry collection\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt isn't mine to give.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eI can't coax this bird to my hand\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ethat knows the depth of the river\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eyet sings of it on land.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --from \"The Dipper\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor more than twenty years, Kathleen Jamie has been writing the poetry that has established her as \"the leading Scottish poet of her generation\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e). Lyrical and meditative, her poems engage the natural world and human society with an authentic, earthly spirituality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWaterlight\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49538444656913,"sku":"GOR003093160","price":19.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51423982223633,"sku":"CIN1555974651G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51455916835089,"sku":"CIN1555974651VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1555974651.jpg?v=1751419615","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/products\/waterlight-book-kathleen-jamie-9781555974657","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}