Robert Alan Jamieson Explained

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)
• Plague Clothes (2020)

Theatre

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

Anthologies

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

See also

• Shetland dialect

Notes and References

1. Web site: Participants: Robert Alan Jamieson. https://web.archive.org/web/20150926170157/http://www.stanzapoetry.org/2008/participant.php?participant=35. 2015-09-26. dead. Stanza Poetry Festival.
2. Web site: Edinburgh University profile.
3. Web site: Poets' A-Z » Robert Alan Jamieson . https://web.archive.org/web/20110717080317/http://www.spl.org.uk/poets_a-z/jamieson.html. 2011-07-17. dead. Scottish Poetry Library.
4. Web site: Stitched Up. Textualities.net. Robert Alan Jamieson.
5. Web site: Robert Alan Jamieson – A Day at the Office (1991) . https://web.archive.org/web/20210710143150/https://www.list.co.uk/article/2750-robert-alan-jamieson-a-day-at-the-office-1991/. 2021-07-10. dead. The List.
6. Web site: Poem of the week: Robert Alan Jamieson. https://web.archive.org/web/20080617210939/http://living.scotsman.com/books/Poem-of-the-week-Robert.3877538.jp. 2008-06-17. dead. The Scotsman. 17 June 2008.
7. Web site: The One O’Clock Gun . https://web.archive.org/web/20130729020420/http://www.leamingtonbooks.co.uk/oocg. 2013-07-29. Leamington Books.