Kathleen Jamie
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Kathleen Jamie is a Scottish poet, born May 13, 1962 and raised in Currie, Edinburgh. She gained an M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh.
Her first book was Black Spiders, published 1982 by Salamander Press. Regarded as one of the most gifted contemporary poets in the UK, she won the Forward Poetry Prize for poetry in 2004 for The Tree House. Other books of poetry include The Queen of Sheba, (1994), The Way We Live (1987), Jizzen (1999), A Flame In Your Heart (with Andrew Greig), and The Autonomous Region (with photographer Sean Mayne Smith). Increasingly, her writing has centred on close observation of, and empathy with, the natural world. In 2005 she published, to great critical acclaim, a collection of non-fiction writings, Findings.
She has held several writer-in-residence posts, including one at the University of Dundee from 1991 to 1993. She is currently a part-time Lecturer in Creative Writing in the School of English at the University of St. Andrews, and lives in Fife.
[edit] External links
- Griffin Poetry Prize biography
- Griffin Poetry Prize reading, including audio clip
- Anatomy of a natural poet by Sarah Jones in Scotsman.com
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