Jump to content

Robert Alan Jamieson

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Robert Alan Jamieson (born 1958) is a poet and novelist from Shetland, Scotland. He grew up in the crofting community of Sandness.[1] He works as a creative writing tutor at Edinburgh University,[2] having been co-editor of the Edinburgh Review in 1993–1998 and a creative writing fellow at the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde in 1998–2001.[3][4]

Novels

[edit]
  • Soor Hearts (1984)
  • Thin Wealth (1986)
  • A Day at the Office (1991), named by Edinburgh-based List Magazine among the 100 Best Scottish Books of All Time: "Each page of this book – a precursor to much modern experimental Scottish fiction – looks more like a work of art than a novel."[5]
  • Da Happie Laand (2010)
  • MacCloud Falls (2017)

Poetry

[edit]

Jamieson writes in the Shetland dialect of Scots. Some of his works are:

  • Shoormal (1986)
  • Nort Atlantik Drift (1999), reprinted in a bilingual edition in 2007. Includes "Laamint fir da tristie", which was selected as a poem of the week at The Scotsman in June 2008.[6]
  • Ansin t'Sjaetlin: some responses to the language question (2005)
  • Plague Clothes (2020)

Theatre

[edit]
  • An Aald Lion Lies Doon (1986)
  • Beyond the Far Haaf (1989), Libretto for a symphonic cantata, music by David Ward.)

Anthologies

[edit]
  • (Contributor) Pax Edina: The One O' Clock Gun Anthology (Edinburgh, 2010)[7]

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Participants: Robert Alan Jamieson". Stanza Poetry Festival. Archived from the original on 26 September 2015.
  2. ^ "Edinburgh University profile".[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ "Poets' A-Z » Robert Alan Jamieson". Scottish Poetry Library. Archived from the original on 17 July 2011.
  4. ^ Robert Alan Jamieson. "Stitched Up". Textualities.net.
  5. ^ "Robert Alan Jamieson – A Day at the Office (1991)". The List. Archived from the original on 10 July 2021.
  6. ^ "Poem of the week: Robert Alan Jamieson". The Scotsman. 17 June 2008. Archived from the original on 17 June 2008.
  7. ^ "The One O'Clock Gun". Leamington Books. Archived from the original on 29 July 2013.