Kathleen Jamie
Standard Name: Jamie, Kathleen
Birth Name: 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.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Alison Fell | The British Council
website on contemporary authors sees AF
's poetry as an influence on that of Kathleen Jamie
and perhaps Kate Clanchy
. British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. |
Literary responses | Sara Maitland | This book was warmly welcomed in The Guardian by Kathleen Jamie
, who found it both unique and timely, written with great skill, judgment and good humour. Jamie, Kathleen. “Noises off”. The Guardian. |
Literary responses | Selima Hill | SH
says she relies on her unconscious for inspiration: It comes together by itself, if you trust it. Taylor, Debbie. “Deconstructing creativity”. Mslexia, pp. 9 - 13. 9 |
Reception | Jo Shapcott | JS
was only the second woman to win the Forward Prize (following Carol Ann Duffy
and preceding Kathleen Jamie
in 1994). Crown, Sarah. “Forward Prize goes to Kathleen Jamie”. Guardian Unlimited. |
Textual Features | Ruth Padel | RP
takes the journey as the most central of all poetic images. The first part of her book is a guide to reading poetry, divided under headings of which many include the words journey,... |
Textual Production | Carol Rumens | Since this year, 2007, CR
has been picking a Poem of the Week for the Guardian newspaper, which prints the poem along with her commentary and analysis. Rumens like to pay attention to context and... |
Textual Production | Ruth Fainlight | Asked about contemporary poets who interest her, RF
named two Americans (Gjertrud Schnackenberg
and Anne Carson
), and in England (which she was defining rather loosely) Penelope Shuttle
and Sarah Maguire
, followed by... |
Textual Production | Antonia Fraser | Its revised edition, 2002, is strong in moderns like Kathleen Jamie
and Carol Ann Duffy
as well as in the fifteenth century onwards, |
Timeline
26 November 1998
Poems written, read, and discussed by Kathleen Jamie
, Jackie Kay
, and two male poets were issued as number one in the audio-cassette series Poetry Quartets.
26 September 2009
The Guardian newspaper carried a number of poems and short prose pieces commissioned in support of the 10:10 initiative to reduce carbon emissions.