Kathleen Jamie
@KathleenJamie
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Poet, and author of 'Findings' 'Sightlines' 'Surfacing', and 'Cairn'.
Joined July 2012
Like many others, I'm off to a site where the skies are clearer and the weather brighter. We can only do what we can.
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Thank you Paul. How we need readers like yourself, in the din of the world.
Read my review of the excellent 'Cairn' by @KathleenJamie @SortofBooks.
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Thank you, Caught by the River. Such a good crew.
'Weel here we are faur oot on the muir, and the path’s gey near tint itsel amang ling and yellae tormentil and the ither flooers at oor feet. '. Road Trip: a Scots poem by @KathleenJamie
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The lack of Scottish poets on TS Eliot listings is becoming ever more obvious.
A fine array of poetry collections shortlisted for the 2024 T S Eliot Prize. Special congrats to Katrina Porteous who was born in Aberdeen: the first poet with a Scottish connection on the list since J O Morgan in 2020. Best of luck to everyone shortlisted.
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My Keelie Hawk is published today! Poems in Scots with English translations. Cover by the divinely talented Olivia Lomenech Gill. I hope you enjoy 'yon liltin melody fi the verra marches o yer sense. '
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Lovely Paperboats/invite us to write haiku/rewild our tired minds.
Announcing the Paperboats Haiku competition! What can you say in seventeen syllables or less on one of our favourite themes: rewilding or a future free from fossil fuels. £100 prize for the best haiku in each category. Find out more at:
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Really? REALLY?? We start alone, feeling our way. Writers, artists, composers. From an idea, a groping in the dark, a little funding comes huge success. This is @CreativeScots and @scotgov at their worst.
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My last day as Makar. It's been a joy. To @scotgov and @ByLeavesWeLive, to @historic_ally, the librarians, readers, writers of Scotland, to the gods and goddesses of poetry, eternal thanks. There will be another Makar, in due course. Me, I'm in my garret, having a wee lie doon.
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RT @paperboatswrite: The title poem for Issue Three of the Paperboats Zine, Ian McDonough’s stunning poem, ‘A Turn of the Sun’. Read onli….
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Gorgeous - thank you.
Christina Riley from The Nature Library reviews @KathleenJamie’s ‘Cairn’. “The whole collection effervesces with the astonishment, the absurdity, almost, of life, and the privilege of living through it.”. Read the full review at: #bookreview
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RT @paperboatswrite: One week to go!. Details at: . As an unfunded grassroots organisation we rely on the generosit….
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Wonderful when someone *gets your work. Huge thanks to Carol Rumens.
theguardian.com
Haunted by a softly luminous mistiness, the moor combines, as if by double exposure, the passing of time and the full-lit present moment
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RT @hedgehoghugh: “The sobbing trill gliding into silence and bone.” @KathleenJamie - Cairn is a treat I am trying to savour. @curlewcalls….
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Lost for words. .
Another beautifully turned review placed on Cairn by @KathleenJamie “heart-soaringly beautiful…so good it’s almost impossible to let it go” 🙏 @charlieconnelly @Indies_Alliance @WaterstonesHarr
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Sad news from @FinePress. Such beautiful books.
Due to serious health issues this year I have decided to stop my publishing efforts. I still have a number of my back catalogue available including books by @KathleenJamie & @TheStoneCarver, @DavidHarsent1 & Veta Gorner, Michael & Sarah Longley & others
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Looking forward to this -.
‘This marvel of a book’ @GuardianBooks ‘Jamie reduces the essay form to its essence’ @NewStatesman. Praise is being heaped on Cairn. Come to @LRBbookshop next Thursday evening to hear @KathleenJamie discuss #Cairn
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RT @SortofBooks: @KathleenJamie will be discussing CAIRN “This marvel of a book” (Observer) at: 13th June @ToppingsEdin : 18th June @Toppin….
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This is 'Cairn', to be published at midsummer. Notes, poems, micro-essays, acts of witness. 'Wonderful writing. a profound meditation on the precariousness of the planet.' Thank you @ObserverUK and to @SortofBooks, for making it a thing of beauty.
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