Robert Alan Jamieson
Robert Alan Jamieson is a poet and novelist from Shetland, Scotland. He grew up in the crofting community of Sandness. He works as a creative writing tutor at Edinburgh University, having been co-editor of the Edinburgh Review in 1993–1998 and a creative writing fellow at the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde in 1998–2001.
Novels
- Soor Hearts
- Thin Wealth
- A Day at the Office, named by Edinburgh-based List Magazine among the 100 Best Scottish Books of All Time: "Each page of this book – a precursor to much modern experimental Scottish fiction – looks more like a work of art than a novel."
- Da Happie Laand
- ''MacCloud Falls''
Poetry
Jamieson writes in the Shetland dialect of Scots. Some of his works are:- Shoormal
- Nort Atlantik Drift, reprinted in a bilingual edition in 2007. Includes "Laamint fir da tristie", which was selected as a poem of the week at The Scotsman in June 2008.
- Ansin t'Sjaetlin: some responses to the language question
- ''Plague Clothes''
Theatre
- An Aald Lion Lies Doon
- ''Beyond the Far Haaf''
Anthologies
- ''Pax Edina: The One O' Clock Gun Anthology''