We do not need a list if we consider poets the ‘unacknowledged legislators of the world’. This blog takes an encounter with the reading of a rather wonderful current poet, Kathleen Jamie at the Hexham literary Feastival, to try and explain what I mean, if (as is my wont) obscurely and, in another way, darkly. … More Why give a list? ‘Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world’. Arguing the case using Kathleen Jamie’s new work. ‘Cairn’ (2024).