Robert Alan Jamieson (born 1958) is a poet and
novelist from
Shetland, Scotland. He grew up in the
crofting
Crofting is a form of land tenure and small-scale food production particular to the Scottish Highlands, the islands of Scotland, and formerly on the Isle of Man.
Within the 19th century townships, individual crofts were established on the bette ...
community of
Sandness
Sandness (the "d" is not pronounced locally) is a headland and district in the west of Shetland Mainland, Scotland. Sandness was a civil parish, which also included the island of Papa Stour some 1600 metres northwest across ''Papa Sound'' ...
. He works as a creative writing tutor at
Edinburgh University, 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.
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."
*''Da Happie Laand'' (2010)
*''MacCloud Falls'' (2017)
Poetry
Jamieson writes in the
Shetland dialect
Shetland dialect (also variously known as Shetlandic; broad or auld Shetland or Shaetlan; and referred to as Modern Shetlandic Scots (MSS) by some linguists) is a dialect of Insular Scots spoken in Shetland, an archipelago to the north of m ...
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
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'' in June 2008.
*''Ansin t'Sjaetlin: some responses to the language question'' (2005)
Anthologies
*(Contributor) ''Pax Edina: The One O' Clock Gun Anthology'' (Edinburgh, 2010)
See also
*
Shetland dialect
Shetland dialect (also variously known as Shetlandic; broad or auld Shetland or Shaetlan; and referred to as Modern Shetlandic Scots (MSS) by some linguists) is a dialect of Insular Scots spoken in Shetland, an archipelago to the north of m ...
References
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Scottish writers
Scottish poets
Scottish novelists
People from Shetland
Living people
Writers from Edinburgh
1958 births