Kathleen Jamie is one of Britain's foremost poets and essayists. In 2021 she was appointed Scotland's Makar or National Poet. Her groundbreaking works of non-fiction - Findings (2005), Sightlines (2012) and Surfacing (2019) - are considered pioneers and exemplars of 'new nature writing'. She lives in Fife.
Praise for the Findings trilogy: A sorceress of the essay form. Never exotic, down to earth, she renders the indefinable to the reader's ear -- John Berger Kathleen Jamie is a supreme listener ... clear, subtle, respectful, and so unquenchably curious that it makes the world anew -- Richard Mabey A book of unparalleled beauty and rare exactness of language * Sunday Telegraph * I put the book down again and thought: 'I wonder if I would actually kill to be able to write, or think, like that -- Nicholas Lezard * The Guardian * It is not often that the prose of a poet is as powerful as her verse, but Jamie's is -- Diana Athill * Literary Review *