The outer world flew open like a door, and I wondered – what is it that we’re just not seeing?
In this greatly anticipated sequel to Findings, prize-winning poet and renowned nature writer Kathleen Jamie takes a fresh look at her native Scottish landscapes, before sailing north into iceberg-strewn seas. Her gaze swoops vertiginously too; from a countryside of cells beneath a hospital microscope, to killer whales rounding a headland, to the constellations of satellites that belie our sense of the remote.
Written with her hallmark precision and delicacy, and marked by moments in her own life, Sightlines Main Edition offers a rare invitation to pause and to pay heed to our surroundings.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Praise for Findings:
‘Kathleen Jamie writes with unparalleled beauty, sharpness of observation, wit, delicacy, strength of vision and rare exactness of language.’
― Daily Telegraph
It finds without disturbing the found. And this takes courage and delicacy — John Berger ― Guardian Books of the Year
Her acheivement is to make us look again with completeluy fresh eyes at those creatures and places we had long presumed to know — Mark Cocker
Book Description
Five years after Findings broke the mould of nature writing, Sort of Books presents Sightlines – Now a Radio 4 Book of the Week, starting on 23rd April
About the Author
Award-winning poet, Kathleen Jamie was born in the west of Scotland in 1962. Her first travel book, Among Muslims (also published by Sort Of Books), was described as ‘utterly luminous‘ (The Independent) and ‘one of the most powerful accounts by a contemporary Western writer‘ (TLS).
Her latest poetry collection, The Tree House (Picador), won the 2004 Forward prize.
A part-time lecturer in Creative Writing at St Andrews University, Kathleen Jamie lives with her family in Fife.
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