Lochnagar, by Kathleen Jamie – Scotland’s Makar on the passing of Queen Elizabeth II

Scotland’s Makar (national poet) Kathleen Jamie has written a new poem on the passing of Queen Elizabeth II at Balmoral.

Kathleen Jamie

Of the poem, Jamie said, “A makar’s role is to bring poetry into the heart of our national life. With an extraordinary national event as we are having now, I felt that it was incumbent on me to make a poem for the occasion.”

"I chose to do this in an old-fashioned form to represent the virtues that many people found in the Queen, of constancy and tradition.”