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Kathleen Jamie Poet United Kingdom
Kathleen Jamie is a poet and essayist. She was born in Scotland in 1962 and lives in Scotland still. Her work concerns nature, travel and culture. Her poetry collections include The Overhaul, which won the 2012 Costa Poetry Prize, and The Tree House, which won the Forward prize. Her non-fiction essays are collected in the three highly regarded books Findings, Sightlines, and Surfacing, all regarded as important contributions to the ‘new nature writing.’ Her most recent poetry collection, The Bonniest Companie appeared in 2015, and won the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award. Kathleen’s interests are in archaeology, landscape, nature, environment, birds, travel and art. She writes mostly in English, and occasionally in Scots. (Language of Lowland Scotland)
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