Kathleen Jamie said she was "delighted" to be the overall winner
A Stirling University's professor's "visionary and profound" poetry collection has been named the 2016 Saltire Society Book of the Year.
Kathleen Jamie's The Bonniest Companie contains 51 poems written during the course of 2014.
The awards recognise literary and academic excellence across six categories.
The poet won her individual category before being announced as the competition's overall winner.
Prof Jamie was awarded £6,000 for the prize in addition to £2,000 for winning the society's Scottish poetry book of the year.
The judges described the poems as "utterly relaxed and matter of fact yet profound in their implications".
The awards, which are supported by Creative Scotland, were announced at a ceremony at the Central Hall in Edinburgh.
Difficult decision
Prof Jamie said she was "delighted, but a bit embarrassed" to win the award.
She said: "It was a terrifically strong shortlist, any of us could have won.
"Scotland makes very good poets - a fact that's still not acknowledged as it ought to be.
"I'm grateful to the judges. It couldn't have been an easy decision."
The Saltire Society's executive director, Jim Tough said: "We are proud to have seen these awards grow to embrace every aspect of literary Scotland; the emerging and the established, the academic and the poetic, fiction, non- fiction and publishing.
"Excellence is the common thread, built on the integrity and freely given commitment of our expert panels."
The full list of winners:
Kathleen Jamie, The Bonniest Companie
Sebastiaan Verweij, The Literary Culture of Early Modern Scotland: Manuscript Production and Transmission, 1560-1625
James Hunter, Set Adrift Upon the World
Chitra Ramaswamy, Expecting
Isabel Buchanan, Trials
John Kay, Other People's Money
Graeme Macrae Burnet, His Bloody Project
2016 Saltire Publisher of the Year Award - Floris Books
