The Overhaul by Kathleen Jamie

The Overhaul by Kathleen Jamie

The Overhaul is Kathleen Jamie’s first collection since the award-winning The Tree House, and it broadens her poetic range considerably. The Overhaul continues Jamie’s lyric enquiry into the aspects of the world our rushing lives elide, and even threaten. Whether she is addressing birds or rivers, or the need to accept loss, or sometimes, the desire to escape our own lives, her work is earthy and rigorous, her language at once elemental and tender.

As an essayist, she has frequently queried our human presence in the world with the question ‘How are we to live?’ Here, this is answered more personally than ever. The Overhaul is a mid-life book of repair, restitution, and ultimately hope – of the wisest and most worldly kind.

' a perfect match for the primal Scottish landscapes she evokes and against which she explores human relationships. . beautifully cadenced . . . utterly convincing . . . unquestionably a fine poet . . . she achieves a beautifully balanced classical simplicity.' The North magazine

Kathleen Jamie was born in the west of Scotland in 1962. Her poetry collection The Tree House (Picador 2004), won both the Forward Prize and the Scottish Book of the Year Award. Mr and Mrs Scotland are Dead was shortlisted for the 2003 International Griffin Prize. Kathleen Jamie’s non-fiction books include the highly regarded Findings and Sightlines. She teaches at Stirling University and lives with her family in Fife.

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ISBN 13	9781447202042
ISBN 10	144720204X
Title	The Overhaul
Author	Kathleen Jamie
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pan Macmillan
Year published	2012-10-11
Number of pages	64
Prizes	Winner of Costa Poetry Award 2013 (UK), Short-listed for Scottish Book Awards Poetry Award 2013 (UK), Short-listed for T. S. Eliot Prize 2013 (UK)
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