Mr. and Mrs. Scotland Are Dead

by Jamie, Kathleen

• ISBN13: 9781852245863
• ISBN10: 1852245867
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Summary

Jamie's poetry is intelligent and subtle, Her language inventive and refreshing. This is a wide-ranging selection. It reveals the generous range of her concerns, From life in the wilder parts of Pakistan and Tibet, To the difficult questions of ident

Table of Contents

View from the Cliffs	p. 11
Black Spiders	p. 15
Women in Jerusalem	p. 16
Abir	p. 18
The Barometer	p. 19
The Harbour	p. 20
The Leaving of an Island	p. 21
November	p. 22
Inhumation	p. 23
Storm in Istanbul	p. 24
Cramond Island	p. 25
Permanent Cabaret	p. 26
Dreaming of Espionage	p. 28
'We were carrying our dance shoes'	p. 31
'The moment a kiss comes to an end'	p. 32
'What you said about being shot down'	p. 33
'She scans the same horizon'	p. 34
'We don't have seasons, we just repeat'	p. 35
'The moon has set'	p. 36
'Blood? Only port wine, suddenly drunk'	p. 37
'Maybe she didn't die'	p. 38
'Walking home to mother's'	p. 39
'There is darkness everywhere'	p. 40
War Widow	p. 41
Clearances	p. 46
Bosegran	p. 47
Poem for a Departing Mountaineer	p. 48
Duet	p. 49
Julian of Norwich	p. 50
Lepidoptery	p. 51
Peter the Rock	p. 52
'Stop thinking now'	p. 55
'I have seen the devil'	p. 56
'The wave breaks'	p. 57
'At the sharp end of the gorge'	p. 58
'All the driver wants is eyedrops'	p. 59
'Emotion is human, the foothills brown'	p. 60
'It's earthly and brown'	p. 61
'The year's greening crop'	p. 62
'Maybe this is as close as we'll get to the mountains'	p. 63
'That day was raised, a song of note'	p. 64
'Boys drive down the yaks'	p. 65
'The palm of a crystal gazer's hand'	p. 66
Risk	p. 69
Aunt Janet's Museum	p. 70
Havers	p. 71
The Latter-day Noah	p. 72
The Philosopher Extemporises in the Fairground	p. 73
God almighty the First Garden Made	p. 74
Petrol	p. 75
The Way We Live	p. 76
'O a great downward lurch of the heart'	p. 79
'Fires burning in the bellies of yurts at the day's end'	p. 80
'Walked beneath the power lines'	p. 81
'Meanwhile, in another place'	p. 82
The princess breaks the Sun-Moon mirror	p. 83
'Carved dragons framed the door, fierce and delicate'	p. 84
'The shattered windscreen splits the sun'	p. 85
'After three days in the desert he came to a spring'	p. 86
'So said the maid into her dictaphone'	p. 87
'Unbeknown to them, Fa-hsien'	p. 89
The travels of fa-hsien	p. 90
'Fine horsewomen both and a long time travelling'	p. 92
'Fa-hsien, cross-legged in a light rain'	p. 95
'When we reached the lake, pure and shining'	p. 96
'We saw him once more'	p. 100
The Panchen Lama rides from Lhasa to Kumbum	p. 101
'As the Lama rode to the golden roofs'	p. 103
For Paula	p. 104
Sang a the blin beggar	p. 105
Xiahe	p. 106
Note	p. 108
The Queen of Sheba	p. 111
Mother-May-I	p. 114
A Shoe	p. 115
Hand Relief	p. 116
Child with Pillar Box and Bin Bags	p. 117
Fountain	p. 118
Royal Family Doulton	p. 119
School Reunion	p. 121
Bairns of Suzie: a hex	p. 126
Wee Baby	p. 128
Wee Wifey	p. 129
Outreach	p. 130
China for Lovers	p. 131
Perfect Day	p. 132
In Praise of Aphrodite	p. 133
Mr. and Mrs. Scotland Are Dead	p. 134
Flashing Green Man	p. 135
Arraheids	p. 137
Den of the old men	p. 138
Jocky in the Wilderness	p. 139
One of Us	p. 140
Sky-burial	p. 141
Sad Bird	p. 143
Swallows and Swifts	p. 145
Hagen and the Owls at Glencoe	p. 146
The Republic of Fife	p. 147
The Horse-drawn Sun	p. 148
A dream of the Dalai Lama on Skye	p. 150
Another Day in Paradise	p. 151
The Sea-house	p. 153
Rooms	p. 155
The Ice Queen of Ararat	p. 156
At Point of Ness	p. 157
Skeins o Geese	p. 158
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