Robert
Alan Jamieson, a native of the Shetland Isles, has published
two books of poetry, Shoormal and Nort Atlantik Drift,
a sequence of 27 poems in his own distinctive brand of Shetlandic Scots.
As a novelist, Jamieson has published three books. A Day at the Office
(1991) was named by the Edinburgh-based List magazine as one of the 100
Best Scottish Books of all time, commenting that "each page of this book,
a precursor to much modern experimental Scottish fiction, looks more like
a work of art than a novel".