Between the laundry and the fetching kids from school, that's how
birds enter my life. I listen. During a lull in the traffic:
oyster-catchers; in the school-playground, sparrows.
It's surprising what you can find by simply stepping out to look.
Award-winning poet Kathleen Jamie has an eye and an ease with the
nature and landscapes of Scotland as well as an incisive sense of our
domestic realities. In Findings she draws together these themes to
describe travels like no other contemporary writer.
Whether she is following the call of a peregrine in the hills above
her home in Fife, sailing into a dark winter solstice on the Orkney
islands, or pacing around the carcass of a whale on a rain-swept
Hebridean beach, she creates a subtle and modern narrative, peculiarly
alive to her connections and surroundings.
