- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations and Citations
- Epigraph
- Introduction
- Inlet
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1. A Poetics of Listening -
2. Mr and Mrs Scotland Are Taking a Vacation in the Autonomous Region - Off the Page
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3. Kathleen’s Scots -
4. Transcending the Urban: The Queen of Sheba - Hibernaculum
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5. ‘Proceeding Without a Map’: Kathleen Jamie and the Lie of the Land -
6. ‘An Orderly Rabble’: Plural Identities in Jizzen -
7. ‘Sweet-Wild Weeks’: Birth, Being and Belonging in Jizzen - Even If
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8. ‘The Tilt from One Parish to Another’: The Tree House and Findings -
9. Repetition, Return and the Negotiation of Place in The Tree House - A Man, a Former Environmental Activist Turned PR Consultant for Logging Companies, Defends His Choices
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10. Form in The Tree House -
11. Nature and Embodiment in This Weird Estate - What the Water Says
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12. Into the Centre of Things: Poetic Travel Narratives in the Work of Kathleen Jamie and Nan Shepherd -
13. ‘Connective Leaps’: Sightlines and The Overhaul - To KJ, in her Attic
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14. Life Lines, Sight Lines: Collaborative Works -
15. Midlife Music: The Overhaul and Frissure -
16. ‘We Do Language Like Spiders Do Webs’: Kathleen Jamie and Michael Longley in Conversation - Notes on Contributors
- Bibliography
- Index
Nature and Embodiment in This Weird Estate
Nature and Embodiment in This Weird Estate
- Chapter:
- (p.112) 11. Nature and Embodiment in This Weird Estate
- Source:
- Kathleen Jamie
- Author(s):
Lucy Collins
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
In an essay entitled ‘Pathologies’ Jamie reflects on the role of the microscopic other in endangering human wellbeing and continuing life. This ‘inner natural world’ is both complex and contingent however; developments at the interface between creativity and technology have for some time problematized the concept of the body as singularly ‘human’ in character. Jamie’s engagement with the intricacy of bodily experience and representation, in particular with notions of the ‘other within’, is explored in a new way in a short sequence of poems published as This Weird Estate in 2007. These poems were written in response to anatomical representations of the early 19th century, several of which relate specifically to reproductive disease; they consider this most proximate of encounters—that of the child in the womb with the body of the mother—as a site within which other forms of nature exert an invisible yet powerful force. This chapter situates these poems at the interface of the poet’s engagement with generational change and ecological responsibility.
Keywords: Kathleen Jamie, This Weird Estate, Literature and environment, Ecocriticism, Literature and medicine, Body, Poetry and gender
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations and Citations
- Epigraph
- Introduction
- Inlet
-
1. A Poetics of Listening -
2. Mr and Mrs Scotland Are Taking a Vacation in the Autonomous Region - Off the Page
-
3. Kathleen’s Scots -
4. Transcending the Urban: The Queen of Sheba - Hibernaculum
-
5. ‘Proceeding Without a Map’: Kathleen Jamie and the Lie of the Land -
6. ‘An Orderly Rabble’: Plural Identities in Jizzen -
7. ‘Sweet-Wild Weeks’: Birth, Being and Belonging in Jizzen - Even If
-
8. ‘The Tilt from One Parish to Another’: The Tree House and Findings -
9. Repetition, Return and the Negotiation of Place in The Tree House - A Man, a Former Environmental Activist Turned PR Consultant for Logging Companies, Defends His Choices
-
10. Form in The Tree House -
11. Nature and Embodiment in This Weird Estate - What the Water Says
-
12. Into the Centre of Things: Poetic Travel Narratives in the Work of Kathleen Jamie and Nan Shepherd -
13. ‘Connective Leaps’: Sightlines and The Overhaul - To KJ, in her Attic
-
14. Life Lines, Sight Lines: Collaborative Works -
15. Midlife Music: The Overhaul and Frissure -
16. ‘We Do Language Like Spiders Do Webs’: Kathleen Jamie and Michael Longley in Conversation - Notes on Contributors
- Bibliography
- Index
