Kathleen Jamie
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Kathleen Jamie | |
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Kathleen Jamie | |
Born | (1962-05-13) 13 Mey 1962 (age 62) Scotland |
Thrift | Poet, essayist |
Naitionality | Scottish |
Alma mater | University of Edinburgh |
Notable warks | The Tree House, The Overhaul |
Notable awairds | Forward Poetry Prize Scottish Book of the Year Eric Gregory Award |
Kathleen Jamie FRSL FRSE (born 13 Mey 1962) is a Scots poet an essayist.[1][2] In 2021 she becam Scotland's fowert Makar.[3]
Kathleen Jamie is a poet an essayist. Brocht up in Currie, near Edinburgh, she studied philosophy at the University o Edinburgh, furthsettin her first poems as an unnergraduate. Her writing is rooted in Scots laundscape an cultur, an ranges throu traivel, weemen's issues, airchaeology an visual airts. She scrieves in Inglis an in Scots.[1][4]
Jamie's collections include The Queen of Sheba (1995). Her 2004 collection The Tree House shawed an increasing interest in the naitural warl. Iss beuk wan the Forward Poetry Prize an the Scottish Book of the Year Award. The Overhaul wis furthset in September 2012.[1] It won the 2012 Costa poetry award.[5] Fuir the last tenyeir,] Jamie haes scrieved non-fiction as weel. Her collections o essays Findings and Sightlines ar thocht tae beinfluential warks o nature an laundscape writin. On furthsettin in the Unitit States, the latter won the John Burroughs Medal an the Orion Book Award.[1] Jamie dis essays an reviews fur the London Review of Books and The Guardian.
A poem by Jamie is inscrieved on the national moniment at Bannockburn.
In 2014, Jamie set forrit wi the task o scrievin ae poem a week. The resulting poems wis colleckit in The Bonniest Companie, lowsit in 2015, winnin 2016 Saltire Society book of the year award.[6][7]
In 2009 Jamie wis eleckit as a Fellow o the Royal Society of Literature,[8] an in 2018 eleckit as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[2]
In August 2021 Jamie wis appyntit as the fowert Scots Makar.[9]