{"id":2006,"date":"2022-01-28T19:34:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T00:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/?p=2006"},"modified":"2022-01-28T19:34:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T00:34:23","slug":"scotlands-new-makar-kathleen-jamie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/?p=2006","title":{"rendered":"Scotland&#8217;s New Makar: Kathleen Jamie"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>As we begin Scotland\u2019s Year of Stories in 2022, ASF spotlights Scotland\u2019s new Makar &#8211; Kathleen Jamie.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jamie is the fourth poet to receive this honor that was established in 2004 by the Scottish Parliament. She is a poet and an essayist, and will take on the role of promoting poetry throughout Scotland in her role at the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2007 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/First_Minister_and_Kathleen_Jamie_New_Scots_Makar-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"Kathleen Jamie Nicola Sturgeon \" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" \/><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In August, Nicola Sturgeon, welcomed Kathleen Jamie into the role, which she is succeeding Jackie Kay in.\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unlike her predecessors, Jamie was appointed only a three year term rather than a five year term, a decision made by the Scottish Government because of \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">demands the role places on the Makar\u2019s time and other work, and to help encourage greater diversity, variety and interest in the role going forward.\u201d<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The role, alongside promoting poetry and its legacy and cultural significance especially during a year such as the Year of Stories, also includes noting events of significance through poetry.\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She was born in Currie, Midlothian and was first published at age 20. She attended Edinburgh University and has written for radio and newspapers alongside her multiple poetry collections.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2008 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/kathleenjamie-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Kathleen Jamie\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her writing often centers around nature, travel, and culture.\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI am honoured and delighted to be appointed as Scotland\u2019s new Makar. The post confirms a weel-kent truth: that poetry abides at the heart of Scottish culture, in all our languages, old and new. It\u2019s mysterious, undefinable and bold. It runs deep and sparkles at once\u201d<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3>\n<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we begin Scotland\u2019s Year of Stories in 2022, ASF spotlights Scotland\u2019s new Makar &#8211; Kathleen Jamie.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[314,206,204,3,627,266],"tags":[79,879,153,881,880,882,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2009,"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions\/2009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}