Kathleen Jamie
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Kathleen Jamie FRSL (born 13 May 1962) is a Scottish poet and essayist as well as a University of Stirling Professor of Creative Writing.
Life and work
Kathleen Jamie is a poet and essayist. She grew up in Currie, near Edinburgh, and published her first poems as an undergraduate. Her writing is rooted in Scottish history and culture, and it spans travel, women's rights, archaeology, and visual art. She writes in English and occasionally in Scots.
The Queen of Sheba (1995) was one of Jamie's collections. The Tree House's 2004 collection sparked an increasing concern for the natural world. This book was honoured both at the Forward Poetry Prize and the Scottish Book of the Year Award. In September 2012, the Overhaul was first published. It was named as the best poem in Costa Rica in 2012. Jamie has also written non-fiction for the past decade. Her essays Findings and Sightlines are considered influential works of nature and landscape writing. The former received the John Burroughs Medal and the Orion Book Award on publication in the United States. For the London Review of Books and The Guardian, Jamie writes occasional essays and reviews.
On the national monument at Bannockburn, Jamie's poem is inscribed.
Jamie began a new challenge in 2014: to write one poem a week. The resulting poems were published in The Bonniest Companie in 2015, winning the 2016 Saltire Society book of the Year award.
Jamie was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2009 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2018.
Jamie was proclaimed as the fourth holder of the Scots Makar name in August 2021.
Awards
- 1981 Eric Gregory Award
- 1995 Somerset Maugham Award for The Queen of Sheba
- 2000 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for Jizzen
- 2001 Scottish Arts Council Creative Scotland Award
- 2003 Griffin Poetry Prize (Canada) (shortlist) for Mr. and Mrs. Scotland are Dead: Poems 1980–1994
- 2004 Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year) for The Tree House
- 2005 Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award for The Tree House
- 2012 Costa Prize Poetry Award for The Overhaul
- 2014 John Burroughs Medal for Sightlines
- 2014 Orion Book Award for Sightlines
- 2016 Saltire Society book of the year award for The Bonniest Companie
- 2017 Ness Award "for outstanding creative writing at the confluence of travel, nature and culture"