Kathleen Jamie was born in Renfrewshire in 1962. Her most recent poetry collection, The Tree House, was the winner of the 2004 Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection and was the 2005 Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year. She is Lecturer in Creative Writing at St Andrew's University.
The poems below were recorded at 'The Friendship of Poets' symposium in November 2006.
The Bond by Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, translated by Medbh McGuckian
© Kathleen Jamie and the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry 2006.