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Kathleen Jamie

@kathleenjamie.bsky.social
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Poet, essayist. Author of 'Findings', 'Sightlines', 'Surfacing' and 'Cairn'. Erstwhile National Poet of Scotland. Terrible at art, alas. What else? Today is all low winter sun and jackdaws.

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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If you enjoy atmospheric radio. All credit to producer Victoria Ferran.
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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"This is not a collection of occasional pieces, such as a writer brings out to supplement his real work; instead this is my real work, such as it is" I learned so much from Annie Dillard.
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John Glenday @johnglenday.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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‘Writing With...’ is back for a new autumn course! Plus other North Sea Poets news …
A Weekend Update from North Sea Poets - 6th September 2026
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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Applications are now open for Studio 5 with John Glenday 🌊 Get all the details & apply at northseapoets.com/studios #NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky
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Want to develop your practice through workshops and feedback from the experts? Apply to be part of the Studios and 1-Day Workshops.
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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Wildfires. A poem in the Observer. observer.co.uk/culture/book...
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In the Cairngorms by Kathleen Jamie
A new poem about the wildfires in the Highlands by Scotland’s makar
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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Noh Theatre at EIBF! Tickets selling fast! Noh Reimagined are bringing 'Song of Rona Island' to Greyfriars Kirk. Based on my essay 'On Rona', with musicians Aidan ORourke and Brighde Chaimbeul. Extraordinary. www.edbookfest.co.uk/.../nonomiya.... (Photos of London premiere by Sumire Tamure.)
A Noh actor in full costume and mask.The 8 cast, Japanese Noh actors, plus Scottish and Japanese musicians, acknowledge applause. The character 'Saint Ronan' onstage, in costume, brandishing a stick.
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John Glenday @johnglenday.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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What We're Reading This Summer
The books waiting to be read
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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Join us?
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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
A Noh interpretation of my 'On Rona'. Japanese tradition meets the outermost Hebrides. This is what the Edinburgh festivals are for! Thank you EIBF.
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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
In the Shade of Les Murray substack.com/@northseapoe... We age, we change our minds. A lovely tribute by Lisa Brockwell to her fellow Australian.
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In the Shade of Les Murray
Lisa Brockwell on her changing opinion of the poet
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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
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The Sunday Poem: Rowan by Kathleen Jamie | The Observer
Kathleen Jamie is a former makar (poet laureate) of Scotland. Her most recent collection is The Keelie Hawk: Poems in ScotsIllustration by Chris Riddell
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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
substack.com/home/post/p-... I wrote about Spain's Civil War soldier poet, over on Substack.
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Before Hatred
Kathleen Jamie discovers the poetry of Miguel Hernández
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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
observer.co.uk/culture/book... In the Observer this Spring equinox: my review of Rebecca Solnit’s new book.
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Rebecca Solnit and the audacity of hope | The Observer
The Beginning Comes After the End makes the case for the power of activism in a world defined by authoritarianism and climate disaster
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John Glenday @johnglenday.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
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Poets are in the News Again
Don Paterson on why that’s never good
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John Glenday @johnglenday.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
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Peter Mackay, Don Paterson, Kathleen Jamie and Brian Holton for Irish Pages: Scotland at Pilrig St. Paul's / LARCH
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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Yes Kirrie is landlocked but North Sea Poets will be there, live, in a kirk on Good Friday. Poetry and music - join us! Details below.
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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
New post 📰 South of my Days – Lisa Brockwell longs for the light while hiding from the glare Read here: buff.ly/0jexV9x #NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky
A photo looking out to bright aqua sea with trees framing the right and left corners. The text reads: 'South of my Days. Lisa Brockwell longs for the light while hiding from the glare. North Sea Poets. Northseapoets.substack.com' The Substack logo is in the bottom right corner.
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The Edwin Morgan Trust @edmorgantrust.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The 2026 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award is officially open for submissions 🎉🎉 If you’re a poet under 30 born, raised or currently living in Scotland and you have not yet published a full-length collection, we want to read your work! Deadline: Monday 30 March edwinmorgantrust.com/2021/11/15/a...
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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Huge congratulations to Karen Solie. Wellwater is a brilliant book.
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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Good to see the Observer featuring new poetry. Today it's my 'Mineral'.
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John Glenday @johnglenday.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
‘You Who Wronged’ by Czesław Milosz. For some reason or other this poem came to mind this morning. Written in a time of tyrants: #Poetry
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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Only six places left! If you’d like yo join us, be quick.
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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Writing With: Beasts, Work, Windows, Mirrors, Music, Jack Gilbert and Mis-placed things, our North Sea Poets 2026 spring course is now available. For all details, and to book, please click below. www.northseapoets.com/courses
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Courses | North Sea Poets
Want to learn creative poetry techniques from the best? Explore our upcoming courses.
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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
It's midwinter, but here is John Glenday with some wonderful light...
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Don Paterson @dharmabam.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
essay on Heaney over at the northseapoets substack … open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
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Heaney on the Underground
Don Paterson on Seamus Heaney's choice of words
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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
This is a lovely thing.
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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
New guest post 📰 Glacier – Garry MacKenzie writes on his new long poem Read the full post: buff.ly/VdmjNVJ #NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky
A purple and orange image of a mountain. The word 'Glacier' is in all capitals and beneath that 'An Icebound View of the First of Forth'. The Wind&Bones logo is in the top right corner.
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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
New post 📰 Everything I have not written Lesley Harrison on the silent poem behind the poem Read the full post: buff.ly/fNdsENG #NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky
A sepia photo of a man and woman wearing old fashioned clothing posing with a dog.
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John Glenday @johnglenday.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
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Everything I have not written
Lesley Harrison on the silent poem behind the poem
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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
North Sea Poetry Weekend Bulletin - ballads, birds, new classes open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
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North Sea Poetry Weekend Bulletin - ballads, birds, new classes
A Weekend Update from North Sea Poets - 1st November 2025
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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
A one-day North Sea Poets workshop with myself, if you fancy it? Details at www.northseapoets.com/studios1dayw...
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Don Paterson @dharmabam.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
just posted some fluff on fluff, deadlines and how to kiss on the radio open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
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North Sea Line Caught, #2: ‘Kissing on the Radio’
Don Paterson on a short history of fluff
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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
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Tony Harrison's 'Study'
Don Paterson on the best room
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John Glenday @johnglenday.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
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North Sea Line Caught #1
An occasional series, featuring new work from North Sea Poets
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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
New from @niallpoetry.bsky.social on #Substack 📰 On the World That Calls Back – Niall Campbell on Jack Gilbert and the world's response Read the full post: buff.ly/SIc5VAk #NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky
A quote from Niall Campbell's newest Substack post. In the background is a photo of brown shells surrounded by dark stones.
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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Where Have All the Great Poets Gone? My North Sea Poets substack... open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
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Where Have All the Great Poets Gone?
Kathleen Jamie on the Giant Tortoises
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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Tickets are going fast for our autumn course on Saturdays 🍂 'Writing With ...' is a series of seven classes, delivered weekly by the #NorthSeaPoets. The course will cover everything from landscapes to ghosts, from Heaney to Plath. Get all the details at northseapoets.com 🌊 #PoetrySky
A description of the next North Sea Poets course next to the North Sea Poets logo. In the background there's a photo of grass blowing in the wind and stormy skies and sea.A description of the next North Sea Poets course. In the background there's a photo of the Tay rail bridge with big fluffy clouds above.Get all the details. In the background is a grassy hill overlooking the sea.
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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Arresting the poets are we? Not a good look.
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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Applications are still open for Studio 2 with Niall Campbell @niallpoetry.bsky.social ✍️ Get all the details: buff.ly/TBILVRi Only eight places available! #NorthSeaPoets #PoetryWorkshops #PoetrySky
A description of North Sea Poetry Studios against a light teal background. The North Sea Poets logo is in the bottom left corner.A description of North Sea Poetry Studios against a light teal background. The North Sea Poets logo is in the bottom left corner.
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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Congratulations to all five finalists!
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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
If you missed out we're running the same course, this time on Saturdays.
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Don Paterson @dharmabam.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Just posted a thing on misreadings, facepalms, iron, milk and spiders, and my most brutal encounter with Robert Frost yet … open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
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The Long Game
Don Paterson on the truth about iron, spiders and milk
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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Yon tree. You know the one.
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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Love this. Longbarrow Press, keeping it real. Inventory open.substack.com/pub/longbarr...
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Inventory
On 19 years of Longbarrow Press
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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Landscape. Death. Bishop. Ghosts. Plath. Artists. Heaney: “Writing With” begins in September. Details at www.northseapoets.com/events/north...
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North Sea Poets Autumn Course - 'Writing With ...' | North Sea Poets
A series of seven classes, each one delivered weekly by a different member of North Sea Poets, with a Q&A at the end of each session.
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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
New guest post from poet, editor and critic Ben Wilkinson 📰 Winners and Losers: The Death of the Poetry Critic – Ben Wilkinson on the current state of reviewing culture Read the full post here: buff.ly/JIQIGvf #NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky #PoetryCommunity
A description of a new post on the North Sea Poets Substack with a black and white photo of a man with glasses and a beard wearing a jumper. There are plants in the background.
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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Poetry. Community. Learning from each other (and two North Sea Poet tutors). Poetry Studios start this September. Applications open now.
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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Stone speaks in poetry. This was such a fun day, and quite the honour. The sun shone, tourist buses passed, and the Canongate Wall, which wreathes the Scottish Parliament with lines of poetry, now has three new plaques, craved by Gillian Forbes. Jackie Kay, Liz Lochead and me - sisters in verse.
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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Cheese Dreams: Don Paterson writing about what he knows, the poetry anthology.
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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
On Not Writing - my new substack for North Sea Poets. Now, back to my dwam* Dwam: Scots for daydream or waking trance. open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
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On Not Writing
Kathleen Jamie considers the fallow times
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