When Kathleen Jamie was appointed Scotland’s Makar by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon at a special ceremony at the Scottish Poetry Library in August, Jamie read from her poem The Wishing Tree, which begins: I stand neither in the wilderness nor fairyland but in the fold of a green hill the tilt from one parish into another. The Makar’s appointment process involved a … [Read more...] about Kathleen Jamie: the poetry of natural resistance