Reviews of Waterlight

“Read Waterlight: Selected Poems…Kathleen Jamie describes ordinary things—a puddle, a brooch, some frogs—with the rhythm of plain speech made starkly dramatic.” —Entertainment Weekly

“She is a global Scot, fully at home in the local landscape she precisely observed and conversant with the larger world.” —Booklist

“This fierce, blanched singing verse is exquisitely gathered by a fine ear: here is a poet who knows how to break her lines, how to warm her syntax, how to repeat and exhort, how to tilt and dangle.” —James Wood, The London Review of Books

“If I had known this poetry existed, I would have longed for it.” —Shaindel Beers, Contrary

“Waterlight, a selection of Jamie’s poems, introduces American readers to her modest, insinuating voice, one often with a surprising sting to it.” —William Logan, The New Criterion