Award-winning poet, and teacher.
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ABOUT
Andrew Jamison was born in County Down in 1986. He was educated at Down High School before studying at Queen Mary University of London and the University of St Andrews. He lives near Oxford with his wife and two children, where he works as an English teacher while completing a doctorate at the University of Reading.
He was awarded the Cambridge University Long Vacation Scholarship as an undergraduate, and won the Templar pamphlet award in 2011 for The Bus from Belfast. Selected as a UK Young Artist, he took part at the 2011 International Biennale in Rome. His Arts Council of Northern Ireland awards include a New York Residency (2011) and the ACES award. He was Poet in Residence at the Bristol Poetry Institute in 2013.
Happy Hour, his first collection, was published in 2012 and Stay in 2017. September 2023 sees the publication of Andrew Jamison’s third collection, Swans We Cannot See.
His poetry has been published widely in UK and Irish literary journals, and anthologies such as Poetry Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry London, The Moth, Modern Poetry in Translation, The Salt Book of Younger Poets and Best British Poetry 2013.
In 2024, Andrew started The Poet's Workshop, offering online poetry courses, mentoring and manuscript assessment. Alongside this he offers Private Tuition for 11-18 year olds looking for help with entrance exams, public exams, or their reading and writing in general.
Follow the links for more information or email info@andrewjamison.co.uk to contact Andrew directly.
REVIEWS
Andrew Jamison has the ability to write poems of significant grace.
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SÉAN HEWITT on 'STAY',
POETRY IRELAND REVIEW
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Jamison’s new poems often balance a solitary, adult present moment against a more social, culturally communal other world.
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Full of craft, humour and delight, there is much below the surface in this thoughtful collection.
STEPHEN SEXTON on
'SWANS WE CANNOT SEE',
THE IRISH TIMES
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The material is left to its own devices, and the greatest surprise of all is the lavish lyricism that ensues .
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‘Thinking About the Point of Things’ is a tour de force of personal, public and political dimensions.’
BEN WILKINSON on
'HAPPY HOUR',
THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENENT
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Jamison is a vibrant new voice on the Irish poetry scene... [This is] a debut which boasts both formal dexterity and an engagingly idiosyncratic way of looking at the world.
JOHN McAULIFFE on 'STAY',
THE IRISH TIMES
JUSTIN QUINN on 'HAPPY HOUR',
TOWER POETRY
KATHLEEN McCRACKEN on 'HAPPY HOUR',
THE YELLOW NIB
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As well as being a prize-winning poet, Andrew is a highly experienced English teacher and private tutor who is passionate about passing on his love of the subject and inspring learners of all abilities to reach their potential.
Whether you need to: achieve a better grade or simply get a pass; gain or regain confidence in English through 1-to-1 learning; rekindle a love of English that has died out from a restrictive school curriculum; reach new heights in your essay writing; be pushed further in your pursuit of a place at a prestigious school or Oxbridge, he’d be delighted to hear from you.
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