{"product_id":"cairn-9781914502002b","title":"Cairn","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 SALTIRE AWARD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn keeping with the concept of \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eCairn \u003c\/span\u003ethe 2025 reprint contains an added 'stone' - the much loved poem\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e What the Clyde said after Cop 26\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eCairn: A marker on open land, a memorial, a viewpoint shared by strangers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor the last five years poet and author Kathleen Jamie has been turning her attention to a new form of writing: micro-essays, prose poems, notes and fragments. Placed together, like the stones of a wayside cairn, they mark a changing psychic and physical landscape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe virtuosity of these short pieces is both subtle and deceptive. Jamie's intent 'noticing' of the natural world is suffused with a clear-eyed awareness of all we endanger. She considers the future her children face, while recalling her own childhood and notes the lost innocence in the way we respond to the dramas of nature. With meticulous care she marks the point she has reached, in life and within the cascading crises of our times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eCairn\u003c\/span\u003e resonates with a beauty and wisdom that only an artist of Jamie's calibre could achieve.\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e'This marvel of a book is a profound meditation on the precariousness of the planet ... these pieces kept bringing tears to my eyes, catching me offguard ... it is what art or, in this case, wonderful writing can do'\u003cbr\u003eKate Kellaway, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eObserver\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Sort Of Books","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42823893155920,"sku":"9781914502002B","price":5.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781914502002-l.jpg?v=1785894368","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/fr\/products\/cairn-9781914502002b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}