Reading: Kathleen Jamie and Harry Josephine Giles
Performers for this event
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Kathleen Jamie
Kathleen Jamie
Kathleen Jamie, poet and essayist, was born in 1962. 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 includes the highly regarded Findings trilogy (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. Between 2010 and 2020 she was Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Stirling. Kathleen is presently serving as Scotland’s Makar, or National Poet.
Event Details
Kick off Friday evening with electrifying performances from two of Scotland’s best-loved and most celebrated poets, the Arthur C. Clarke award-winning Harry Josephine Giles and Scotland’s fourth Makar, Kathleen Jamie.
Event Details
Kick off Friday evening with electrifying performances from two of Scotland’s best-loved and most celebrated poets, the Arthur C. Clarke award-winning Harry Josephine Giles and Scotland’s fourth Makar, Kathleen Jamie. Giles’ work is profoundly ambitious, covering questions of home, belonging, identity and the politics of seeing and embodiment in nature poetry, all with a deeply humane and grounded poetic voice. Jamie is, simply put, one of the country’s greats, and her poetry and non-fiction on politics and the natural world in Scotland have long since established her as a leading voice in both fields. A beautiful event to kick off an action-packed Friday evening.
Harry Josephine Giles is a writer and performer from Orkney, living in Leith. Her verse novel Deep Wheel Orcadia was published by Picador in October 2021 and won the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction book of the year. Kathleen Jamie is a poet, nature writer and retired academic. Among her many accolades is the 2004 Forward Prize for The Tree House and the 2012 Costa Prize for The Overhaul.
