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Kathleen Jamie FRSL (born 13 May 1962) is a Scottish poet and essayist. ==Life and work== 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 writing is rooted in Scottish landscape and culture, but ranges through travel, women's issues, archaeology and visual art. She writes in English and occasionally in Lowland Scots.〔("Kathleen Jamie: a life in writing" )〕〔(Profile at the Poetry Archive )〕 A noted poet, Jamie's collections include ''The Queen of Sheba'' (1995). Her 2004 collection ''The Tree House'' revealed an increasing interest in the natural world. This book won the Forward Poetry Prize and the Scottish Book of the Year Award. ''The Overhaul'' was published in September 2012.〔 It won the 2012 Costa poetry award. For the last decade Jamie has also written non-fiction. Her collections of essays ''Findings'' and ''Sightlines'' are considered highly influential works of nature and landscape writing. On publication in the USA, the latter won the John Burroughs Medal and the Orion Book Award.〔 Jamie writes occasional essays and reviews for the ''London Review of Books'', ''The Guardian'', etc. A poem by Kathleen Jamie is inscribed on the national monument at Bannockburn. Jamie is Professor of Poetry at Stirling University. She is represented by Jenny Brown of Jenny Brown Associates. ''The Bonniest Companie'', a new collection of poems, will be published in 2015. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kathleen Jamie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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