Robert Alan Jamieson

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
  • 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

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)

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

See also

References
  1. "Participants: Robert Alan Jamieson". Stanza Poetry Festival. Archived from the original on 26 September 2015.
  2. "Edinburgh University profile".
  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.
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