Prof. Steve Murdoch - The Swedish Defence University, Stockholm 

Kathleen Jamie

Kathleen Jamie’s 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'. The Bonniest Companie appeared in 2015, and won the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award.

The Keeliehawk – Poems in Scots appeared in 2024. In the same year she published Cairn, a collection of fragments and micro-essays. 

From 2021-24, Kathleen served as Scotland’s Makar, or National Poet.