Robert Alan Jamieson

Robert Alan Jamieson (born 1958) is a Scottish and Shetlandic poet and novelist who grew up on the crofting community of Sandness.^[1] He is currently based in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he works as a Creative Writing tutor at Edinburgh University.^[2] 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.^[3][4]

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".^[5]
• Da Happie Laand (2010)

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 "Laamint fir da tristie".
• Ansin t'Sjaetlin: some responses to the language question (2005)

Anthologies

• (Contributor) Pax Edina: The One O' Clock Gun Anthology (Edinburgh, 2010)^[6]

References