Literature and Languages
Staff Information
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Prof Kathleen Jamie - Chair in Creative Writing |
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Pathfoot A14 School of Arts and Humanities Division of Literature and Languages University of Stirling Stirling FK9 4LA UK |
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Tel: + 44 (0) 1786 467-508 | |
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Email: k.m.jamie@stir.ac.uk |
| About/Research |
| FRSL (Fellow of the Royal Society of Literture) |
I was brought up in Midlothian, studied Philosophy at Edinburgh and have been writing since my teens. I write poetry (mostly in English but occasionally in Scots), and non-fiction. I also write for radio, and contribute reviews to the Guardian.
Poetry collections include The Queen of Sheba (Bloodaxe 1994), Jizzen (Picador 1999) and most recently The Tree House (Picador 2005). This latter won both the Forward Poetry Prize and the Scottish Book of the Year Award.
Non-fiction work includes a collection of non-fiction essays Findings (Sort Of Books) which appeared in 2006.
I’m interested in the role of writing in an ‘interdisciplinary’ context, and so have worked with pathologists, archaeologists, ornithologists, photographers and visual artists.
Recent work for BBC Radio 4 includes ‘The Whale Road’ – a talk on whalebone arches in the UK, and ‘Norn but not Forgotten’ – a feature about the resurgence of poetry in Shetlandic dialect.
To learn more about Kathleen Jamie, visit http://www.contemporarywriters.com |