Wrong again! Her first pamphlet 'Black Spiders' was published
by the Salamander Press (James Fenton's brother) in EDinburgh
in 1982. When she was around 19.
Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask]
Lynx: Poetry from Bath .......... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html
On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Douglas Clark wrote:
> Sorry! Kathleen Jamie is 40 this year. I think her first pamphlet
> came out when she was 17 and a student at EDinburgh University
> in Philosophy.
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> Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask]
> Lynx: Poetry from Bath .......... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html
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> On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Douglas Clark wrote:
>
> > Kathleen Jamie is mid-30s.
> >
> >
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> > Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask]
> > Lynx: Poetry from Bath .......... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html
> >
> > On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> >
> > > I don't fully agree with you Douglas about Niedecker's tiny poems not
> > > saying much, I think thay do say a lot but do so in such a small space. The
> > > Collected Works is partly interesting for showing early longer works, some
> > > of them quite interestingly surreal. And then the many groups of poems, the
> > > 'collections' she put together that never got published. And those amazing
> > > late long poems. It's all the stuff none of the other books showed that
> > > adds to our sense of her accomplishment.
> > >
> > > Can you really call Jamie 'young' when she's been publishing for over 20 years?
> > >
> > > Doug
> > >
> > > Douglas Barbour
> > > Department of English
> > > University of Alberta
> > > Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
> > > (h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
> > > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
> > >
> > > We are stuck with technology when what we really want
> > > is just stuff that works. How do you recognize
> > > something that is still technology?
> > > A good clue is if it comes with a manual.
> > >
> > > Douglas Adams
> > >
> >
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