Robert Alan Jamieson

Robert Alan Jamieson is a Scottish and Shetlandic poet and novellist who grew up on the crofting community of Sandness [ [http://www.stanzapoetry.org/2008/participant.php?participant=35 Stanza Poetry Festival Profile] ] . He is currently based in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he works as a Creative Writing tutor at Edinburgh University [ [http://www.englit.ed.ac.uk/tempsite/staff_profiles/jamieson.htm Edinburgh University profile] ] . He was co-editor of the Edinburgh Review from 1993 - 1998, as well as being a Creative Writing Fellow at the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde, 1998-2001. [ [http://www.spl.org.uk/poets_a-z/jamieson.html Scottish Poetry Library profile] ] [ [http://textualities.net/writers/features-h-m/jamiesonra01.php Textualities Biography] ]

Novels

* "Soor Hearts" (1984),
* "Thin Wealth" (1986)
* "A Day at the Office" (1991), which was named by the Edinburgh based List Magazine as one of the "100 Best Scottish Books of All Time", commenting that "each page of this book – a precursor to much modern experimental Scottish fiction – looks more like a work of art than a novel". [ [http://www.list.co.uk/article/2750-a-day-at-the-office-robert-alan-jamieson-1991/ List Magazine 100 Best Scottish Books of All Time] ]

Poetry

Jamieson writes in the Scots dialect of Shetlandic. Some of his works are:
* "Shoormal" (1986)
* "Nort Atlantik Drift" (1999), reprinted in a bilingual edition in 2007. Includes [http://living.scotsman.com/books/Poem-of-the-week-Robert.3877538.jp "Laamint fir da tristie"] .
* "Ansin t'Sjaetlin: some responses to the language question" (2005)

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