Kathleen Jamie

Kathleen Jamie FRSL (born 13 May 1962) is a Scottish poet and essayist.

Portrait

Life and work

Kathleen Jamie is a poet and essayist. Raised in Currie, near Edinburgh, she studied philosophy at Edinburgh University, publishing her first poems as an undergraduate. Her writing is rooted in Scottish landscape and culture, but ranges through travel, women's issues, archaeology and visual art. She writes in English and occasionally in Lowland Scots.[1][2]

A noted poet, Jamie's collections include The Queen of Sheba (1995). Her 2004 collection The Tree House revealed an increasing interest in the natural world. This book won the Forward Poetry Prize and the Scottish Book of the Year Award. The Overhaul was published in September 2012.[1] It won the 2012 Costa poetry award.[3] For the last decade Jamie has also written non-fiction. Her collections of essays Findings and Sightlines are considered highly influential works of nature and landscape writing. On publication in the USA, the latter won the John Burroughs Medal and the Orion Book Award.[1] Jamie writes occasional essays and reviews for the London Review of Books, The Guardian, etc.

A poem by Kathleen Jamie is inscribed on the national monument at Bannockburn.

Jamie is Professor of Poetry at Stirling University. She is represented by Jenny Brown of Jenny Brown Associates.

In 2014, Jamie set herself the task of writing one poem per week. The resulting poems were collected inThe Bonniest Companie, released in 2015.

Awards

Bibliography

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Kathleen Jamie: a life in writing"
  2. ↑ Profile at the Poetry Archive
  3. ↑ "Hilary Mantel wins 2012 Costa novel prize". BBC News. 2 January 2013. Retrieved 2 January 2013.
  4. ↑ Alison Flood (23 October 2012). "TS Eliot prize for poetry announces 'fresh, bold' shortlist". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
  5. ↑ http://research.amnh.org/burroughs/awards.html
  6. ↑ http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/article/8042/

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