Kathleen Jamie

KJ is a contemporary poet who has also published remarkable travel writing and edited poetry anthologies. She feels that her Scots nationality has been an advantage to her, enabling her to write and develop independently of what she calls the metropolitical literary pundits.
  • BirthName: Kathleen Jamie
Colour photo of Kathleen Jamie holding a copy of her book The Overhaul at the Costa Book Awards in London, 29 January 2013. Standing and shown in profile, she wears a brown-, red-, and grey-patterned dress.

Milestones

13 May 1962

KJ was born in Renfrewshire; she has a sister and a brother.
The Write Stuff: Modern Scottish Writers. http://www.nls.uk/writestuff/index.html.
Jamie, Kathleen. “Diary”. London Review of Books, 6 June 2002, pp. 38-9.
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“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.

By the end of 1994

After two books which were mainly travel-writing, KJ 's next major poetry collection, again from Bloodaxe , was The Queen of Sheba.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.

Biography

Birth and Family

13 May 1962

KJ was born in Renfrewshire; she has a sister and a brother.
The Write Stuff: Modern Scottish Writers. http://www.nls.uk/writestuff/index.html.
Jamie, Kathleen. “Diary”. London Review of Books, 6 June 2002, pp. 38-9.
39
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.

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