Black spiders

by Kathleen Jamie

Kathleen Jamie's debut pamphlet was originally published by The Salamander Press, Edinburgh, in 1982. When the press was closed, Bloodaxe Books acquired the remaining stock and distributed it (with a Bloodaxe ISBN) until it sold out. Most of the poems included in Black Spiders were reprinted in her first full-length collection, The Way We Live, published by Bloodaxe in 1987.

29 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1982

About the author

Kathleen Jamie is a poet, essayist and travel writer, one of a remarkable clutch of Scottish writers picked out in 1994 as the ‘new generation poets’ – it was a marketing ploy at the time but turns out to have been a very prescient selection. She became Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Stirling in 2011.

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