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Robert Alan Jamieson (born 1958) is a poet and novelist from Shetland, Scotland. He grew up in the crofting community of Sandness.^[1] He works as a creative writing tutor at Edinburgh University,^[2] 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.^[3]^[4]

Novels edit

Soor Hearts (1984)
Thin Wealth (1986)
A Day at the Office (1991), 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."^[5]
Da Happie Laand (2010)
MacCloud Falls (2017)

Jamieson writes in the Shetland dialect of Scots. Some of his works are:

Shoormal (1986)
Nort Atlantik Drift (1999), 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.^[6]
Ansin t'Sjaetlin: some responses to the language question (2005)
Plague Clothes (2020)

An Aald Lion Lies Doon (1986)
Beyond the Far Haaf (1989), Libretto for a symphonic cantata, music by David Ward.)

^ "Participants: Robert Alan Jamieson". Stanza Poetry Festival. Archived from the original on 26 September 2015.
^ "Edinburgh University profile".^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "Poets' A-Z » Robert Alan Jamieson". Scottish Poetry Library. Archived from the original on 17 July 2011.
^ Robert Alan Jamieson. "Stitched Up". Textualities.net.
^ "Robert Alan Jamieson – A Day at the Office (1991)". The List. Archived from the original on 10 July 2021.
^ "Poem of the week: Robert Alan Jamieson". The Scotsman. 17 June 2008. Archived from the original on 17 June 2008.
^ "The One O'Clock Gun". Leamington Books. Archived from the original on 29 July 2013.