CAIRN (PB)

For the last five years, Kathleen Jamie has been working with micro-essays, prose poems, notes and fragments. Placed together, like the stones of a cairn, they mark a changing psychic and physical landscape. 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, recalls 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.