New quotes unveiled on the Parliament’s Canongate Wall
Quotes from Makars Liz Lochhead, Jackie Kay and Kathleen Jamie

https://www.parliament.scot/about/news/news-listing/new-quotes-unveiled-on-canongate-wall

#Poetry #ScottishParliament #Edinburgh #LizLochhead #JackieKay #KathleenJamie #CanongateWall

New quotes unveiled on Canongate Wall

Don't miss the chance to catch #ScotsMakar - #KathleenJamie at #MotherwellLib. The National Poet for Scotland is visiting the library on Monday 25 March, 6.30pm.

Book a place online for free here: https://bit.ly/3VbaaBb

Kathleen Jamie in Conversation | Motherwell Library | North Lanarkshire Libraries

Motherwell Library is hosting an incredibly special event with Kathleen Jamie, Makar (National Poet of Scotland) and acclaimed writer of the 'Findings’ trilogy. The Findings Trilogy consists of F...

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Scotland’s arts sector is struggling, with many groups living on a shoestring: the title of an excellent poem by Kathleen Jamie which highlights the thin line between companies surviving and dying. I looked at the issues and the problem seems to be: People want the arts to thrive, but nobody wants to pay for it! #CreativeScotland #IonaFyfe #KathleenJamie #BusinessandCultureScotland #ChrisBrookmyre https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/lifestyle/6209458/scotland-culture-cuts-spending-government/
Scotland's cultural life is much too important to be left to politicians of any party

Serious cuts to Creative Scotland's funding budget have enraged even people who normally support the Scottish Government.

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I'm getting a lot of comfort from #poetry – apparently I've collected a lot over the years! - & right now, w everything so uncertain, I'm holding on to this from #Scottish #poet Kathleen Jamie's #TheStorm:

"Be brave: by the weird-song in the dark you'll find your way."

Originally I only had this excerpt; I didn't know the context, who #KathleenJamie was, or anything else – but it was one of those #ThingsIKnowToBeTrue the moment I read it.

Be brave, lovely peeps. Keep going. 💪

Good morning!

I find as the world roils around us, core beliefs and comforts stay the same, just sometimes they are harder to hear, to find, and to hold on to.

I will be away for the next little while, to be present as Summer wanes and Autumn waxes, listening for my weird-song, and finding my way.

Back soon. In the meantime, be encouraged, be brave, and #KeepGoing 💪​

This is The #Storm by #KathleenJamie, published in The Bonniest Companie, 2015

#TravellingLight #Poetry #WeirdSongs

vendredi d’août
pluie diluvienne
sur la montagne limousine
à l’abri
au rayon livres
de la ressourcerie
découverte majeure
Kathleen Jamie

Strates #KathleenJamie
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Strates

Un livre foudroyant qui transporte en pleine lumière de l’Alaska, dans les vents violents de l’île de Westray puis dans l’intimité de la narratrice, avec retenue.  Les textes qui le composent sont autant d’histoires autobiographiques qui forment un réservoir de récits lumineux où Kathleen Jamie observe la nature, les êtres et le passé. Avec aménité, elle parle d’une vie où les voyages ne relèvent pas du tourisme et où la vie simple n’est pas une vie de privation.  Strates s’ouvre sur le récit de ses aventures au moment où son horizon s’élargit à la suite du départ de ses enfants. Elle participe ainsi à de longues fouilles archéologiques chez les Yupiks en Alaska puis sur l’île de Westray en Écosse. La découverte de ces vestiges met à nu le rapport des habitants à leurs ancêtres et les surprenantes analogies entre les vies de deux générations humaines, que tout sépare pourtant: temps et espace-temps.  Kathleen Jamie explore également, dans ces essais, son passé au sein de récits intimes et troublants, notamment celui d’un séjour de jeunesse en Chine en 1989, au moment de la révolte étudiante et de la répression du soulèvement des Tibétains de Lhassa.

Taken this day, 2022, closer snap of Nicola Sturgeon on stage at the Paisley Book Festival, interviewing Scots Makar Kathleen Jamie https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/51918222816/in/photostream/

#Books #Paisley #Scotland #photography #PaisleyBookFestival #BookFestival #poetry #NicolaSturgeon #KathleenJamie #Makar

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Taken this day, 2022, Nicola Sturgeon in conversation with Scots Makar, Kathleen Jamie at the Paisley Book Festival https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/51918841240/

#Books #Paisley #Scotland #photography #PaisleyBookFestival #BookFestival #poetry #NicolaSturgeon #KathleenJamie #Makar

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BIRD CHERRY by ROSHNI GALLAGHER

Scotland's Makar, Kathleen Jamie, reads Bird Cherry, a poem by Roshni Gallagher, one of the co-winners of the 2022 Edwin Morgan Poetry Prize.

#poetry #scottishpoetry #edwinmorgan #kathleenjamie

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Kathleen Jamie reads Roshni Gallagher's poem Bird Cherry

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