<div><div><b>The first U.S. publication of Scottish poet Kathleen Jamie, author of The <i>Tree House</i>, winner of the 2004 Forward Prize for best poetry collection</b></div><div><br><i>It isn't mine to give.<br>I can't coax this bird to my hand<br>that knows the depth of the river<br>yet sings of it on land.</i><br>             --from "The Dipper"</div><div> </div><div>For more than twenty years, Kathleen Jamie has been writing the poetry that has established her as "the leading Scottish poet of her generation" (<i>The Sunday Times</i>). Lyrical and meditative, her poems engage the natural world and human society with an authentic, earthly spirituality.</div><div><br><i>Waterlight</i> at last makes Jamie's work available to American readers. Her poetry--rendered sometimes in the Scots dialect, sometimes in the descriptive bursts of a naturalist's field guide --confronts gender, sex, landscape, and nationhood with the vivacity of an essential poetic voice.</div></div>