The Bonniest Companie by Kathleen Jamie #Albanianpoetry Charley Reay

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The Bonniest Companie by Kathleen Jamie #Albanianpoetry Charley ReayIn her extraordinary collection, Kathleen Jamie examines her native Scotland a country at once wild and contained, rural and urban and her place within it. In the author's own words: '2014 was a year of tremendous energy in my native Scotland, and knowing I wanted to embrace that energy and participate in my own way, I resolved to write a poem a week, and follow the cycle of the year.' The poems also venture into childhood and family memory and look