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100 Welcomes to a Dying Language

(2017)
A collection of poems by

 
 
This is a collection of Robert Allan Jamieson's Shetlandic poetry spanning the entirety of his writing life. It contains both original poetry and poetry in translation from many of the marginal or disappearing languages of the world, including Hungarian, Greek, Icelandic, Catalan and Turkish. There is also lengthy essay exploring the value of writing in Shetlandic. An English translation is included for the essay and all of the poems.



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