Tag Archives: Kathleen Jamie

Micro-Essays – Kathleen Jamie

Posted on September 3, 2024 by Brian

Now reading Cairn by Kathleen Jamie.  Near the end of ‘Prologue’ she says: ‘I was writing again but in a different way, making short pieces, micro-essays, pages, call them what you will.  Like the local stone here, they fractured easily.  … Continue reading →

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Real Things – Kathleen Jamie

Posted on August 30, 2024 by Brian

I’ve recently discovered the writing of Kathleen Jamie and have been moved and stimulated by her book Surfacing.  A passage encapsulates the experience of mining my diaries for this blog. ‘The old notebook retrieved, I closed the box… I had … Continue reading →

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