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Kathleen Jamie
@KathleenJamie
Poet, and author of 'Findings' 'Sightlines' 'Surfacing', and 'Cairn'.
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    Kathleen Jamie
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    Aug 19, 2021
    Being Makar: I was asked last week if I'd take a call from the First Minister. We were on Orkney and the nearest decent signal was at the Ring of Brodgar. So that's where we were, channelling their energy, when the FM called. *THANK YOU* to everyone who has sent good wishes....
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    Kathleen Jamie
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    Dec 15, 2022
    Called GP on husband's behalf at 08.30. Seen at 10.30. He was in hospital bed by 13.00, staffed by kind, non-striking nurses. He'll be ok. I am in no wise a 'higher earner' but would cheerfully pay more tax for this. #scotgov
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    Kathleen Jamie
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    Jan 25, 2021
    After a weepy morning missing folks and thinking This Will Never End, I made myself go out. Wrote a re-balancing poem. Feel better now. Hope we all will soon. Please click.
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    Kathleen Jamie
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    Sep 28, 2023
    Arts funding is Scotland is dire. I wrote a poem ‘Shoestring’ because that’s how it is.
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    Kathleen Jamie
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    Feb 6, 2019
    Proof copies arrived today. I'm done. Gonna watch rubbish on telly for next 2 years.
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    Kathleen Jamie
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    May 31, 2024
    What awful news. Surely our foremost poet. His poems could up-end you like a drug. Entirely attuned to the natural world, and the strangeness of worlds just beyond our senses. Novelist, essayist, columnist - a mighty talent. penguin.co.uk/articles/2024/…
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    Kathleen Jamie
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    Oct 1, 2020
    Today, after 20 years, I leave academia. Professor no more! *Thank you* to all the enthusiastic, talented students and colleagues of Stirling University, and before that, St Andrews. Best job I'll ever have. But now, back to my garret, and the blank page.
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    Kathleen Jamie
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    Jun 6, 2024
    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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    Kathleen Jamie
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    Aug 17, 2024
    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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    Kathleen Jamie
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    Sep 13, 2021
    My first task as Makar: let's make a collaborative New Scottish Nature Poem/Filmpoem in time for COP26. Write a line, send it in, I'll curate a finished work. What matters? What do you notice, care about? Find out how at scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/35953-2/ #PeoplesPoem #DànNanDaoine
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    Kathleen Jamie
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    Mar 9, 2021
    Twitter, can you recommend any books about LOOKING? At landscapes, art? Don't quite know what I mean. I know J Berger's work, but - anything else? Nothing to offer in return except some lichen. Thanks.
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    Kathleen Jamie
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    Mar 29, 2023
    There is something uniquely cold and shrivelling about closing down libraries. Closing libraries is a retrograde step - in Scotland, a country so proud of its education and literature - we should be opening them! A poem by Dylan Thomas:
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    Kathleen Jamie
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    Dec 5, 2019
    Brilliant times working with some fine brave writers. Expect whelks, mountains, eagles, nuclear waste, islands, ravens, tenements, wasps. The living Scotland.
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    The Bookseller
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    Dec 5, 2019
    .@canongatebooks will publish “the first ever modern collection of contemporary Scottish writing on nature and landscape”, curated by @KathleenJamie: bit.ly/2Ylh0Ex
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    Kathleen Jamie
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    Dec 21, 2021
    Happy Winter Solstice, folks.