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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…
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1 author picked Findings as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I must have read this book hundreds of times! I teach it to creative writing students every year, and every year, I find some new connection or detail I hadn’t noticed before.
Jamie has such an unusual, peculiarly alive connection to her surroundings. She describes landscapes that are local to her – a curious combination of domestic and wild spaces and a beautifully subtle mode of narration.
From Helen's list on reconnecting with nature.
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