Kathleen Jamie

Kathleen Jamie (b 1962, UK) is a poet and essayist. Her first poems were published when she was a philosophy student at the University of Edinburgh, and she was named as Scotland’s fourth national poet in 2021.

Jamie writes with roots in the Scottish landscape, and circles around travel, archaeology, the natural world and women’s rights. Her poetry collection The Tree House (2004) won her the Costa Poetry Award in 2014.

In recent years, Jamie has also made a mark as an essayist for The Guardian and the London Review of Books, and has written the books Findings (2005), Sightlines (2012) and Surfacing (2019) on nature, travel and cultural history.