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    Scotland’s outgoing national poet will leave ‘powerful legacy’, says Swinney

    By Ryan McDougall,

    2024-08-16

    Kathleen Jamie has written poems for the Cop26 summit, the opening of Parliament and about the life of Queen Elizabeth II.

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