Kathleen Jamie

**Kathleen Jamie** FRSL  (born 13 Mey 1962) is a Scots poet an essayist. In 2021 she becam Scotland's fowert Makar.

## Life an wirk
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.

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. It won the 2012 Costa poetry award. Fuir the last tenyeir,&#x5D; 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. 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.

In 2009 Jamie wis eleckit as a Fellow o the Royal Society of Literature, an in 2018 eleckit as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

In August 2021 Jamie wis appyntit as the fowert Scots Makar.

## Awairds

* 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"

## Honours
* 2009 eleckit a Fellow o the Royal Society of Literature
* 2018 eleckit a Fellow o the Royal Society of Edinburgh
* 2021 appyntit as Scots Makar

## Bibliography
* *Black Spiders* 1982
* *A Flame in Your Heart* (with Andrew Greig) 1986
* *The Way We Live* 1987
* *The Golden Peak: Travels in North Pakistan* 1992 (reissued as *Among Muslims* in 2002)
* *The Autonomous Region: Poems and Photographs from Tibet* 1993
* *The Queen of Sheba* 1994
* *Jizzen* 1999
* *Mr & Mrs Scotland Are Dead (Poems 1980–94)* 2002 (shortlisted for the 2003 International Griffin Poetry Prize)
* *The Treehouse* 2004 (winner o the Forward Poetry Prize) an Scottish Book of the Year Award.
* *Findings* 2005, essays
* *Sightlines* 2012, essays
* *The Overhaul* (September 2012)
* *The Bonniest Companie* (2015)
* *Surfacing* (2019), essays
* Contributor to *A New Divan: A Lyrical Dialogue Between East and West,* Gingko Library, 2019. 

## References

## Fremmit airtins
* Griffin Poetry Prize biography
* Griffin Poetry Prize reading, including video clip
* Anatomy of a natural poet by Sarah Jones in Scotsman.com
* Poetry Airchive profile, includin audio clips