The Queen of Sheba

In The Queen of Sheba, the traveller comes home. These are poems of Scotland and beyond. Kathleen Jamie celebrates the good and challenges the outdated, exploring new mixes of culture and language. There are poems about landscape and nationhood, sex and politics, women and men. There is love and exasperation, hope and poverty. At times darker than her earlier work, the poems of The Queen of Sheba are rich with life and boldly self-aware.

The Queen of Sheba	p. 9
Mother-May-I	p. 12
A shoe	p. 13
Hand relief	p. 14
Child with pillar box and bin bags	p. 15
Crystal set	p. 16
Fountain	p. 17
Royal Family Doulton	p. 18
School reunion	p. 20
Bairns of Suzie: a hex	p. 25
Boy in a blanket	p. 27
Wee Baby	p. 29
Wee Wifey	p. 30
Outreach	p. 31
Coupie	p. 32
China for lovers	p. 33
Perfect day	p. 34
All washed up	p. 35
In Praise of Aphrodite	p. 36
Mr and Mrs Scotland are dead	p. 37
Flashing green man	p. 38
Arraheids	p. 40
Den of the old men	p. 41
Jocky in the wilderness	p. 42
One of us	p. 43
Sky-burial	p. 44
Sad bird	p. 46
Swallows and swifts	p. 48
Hagen and the owls at Glencoe	p. 49
The Republic of Fife	p. 52
The horse-drawn sun	p. 54
A dream of the Dalai Lama on Skye	p. 55
Another day in paradise	p. 56
A sea-house	p. 57
Rooms	p. 58
Nightwatch	p. 59
A sealed room	p. 60
The Ice Queen of Ararat	p. 61
At Point of Ness	p. 62
Skeins o geese	p. 64
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