Message from the skies 2020 - Chapter 3 - Kathleen Jaime - Seascape with WEC
Channel: Szilárd Zsolt Sztupák
Date: 2020-01-28

Message from the skies 2020

Kathleen Jaime - Seascape with WEC
Union Canal, Lochrin Basin New, Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, Scotland

About the creative team

Writer: 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 1995 collection The Queen of Sheba won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize and the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize; The Tree House (2002) also won the Forward Poetry Prize and the Scottish Book of the Year Award; The Overhaul, brought out in 2012, won the Costa Poetry Award. In 2016 Kathleen won both the Saltire Poetry Book of the Year and the overall Saltire Book of the Year for her collection The Bonniest Companie. In recent years she has turned her pen to essays to much acclaim, with her collection Sightlines winning the John Burroughs Medal and the Orion Book Award in the USA. Surfacing was published in 2019. Kathleen is currently Professor of Poetry at Stirling University.

Designer: Thomas Moulson swapped Yorkshire for Edinburgh where he now lives, works and finds inspiration as a graphic designer and animator. As well as producing commercial work, his personal design work and short film have been featured in exhibitions around the world.

About this location

The Union Canal was originally built between 1817 and 1822 as a link from Central Edinburgh to Falkirk, ultimately connecting Glasgow to Edinburgh via the Forth and Clyde canal and establishing an inter-city waterway route to transport both goods, mainly coal, as well as commuters. After years of decline, this 31  mile canal closed to navigation in 1965 until 2001 when it reopened as part of the Millenium Link, one of the largest canal restoration projects in the UK and was reconnected to the Forth and Clyde canal via the Falkirk Wheel in 2002. The canal is now used recreationally, and the terminus of the canal, Edinburgh Quay, has recently undergone a major regeneration project, offering retail, office, and apartment spaces in heart of the country’s capital.