The Tree House

Product Details

ISBN: 9780330433327
Publisher: Picador
Publication Date: 17 September 2004
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Pages: 49 p.

About the Book

An essential new collection from one of Picador's leading poetsFor several years now, Kathleen Jamie's work has addressed two principal concerns: how we negotiate with the natural world, and how we should define our conduct within family and society. In The Tree House Jamie argues - as Burns did before her - for an engagement of the whole being through a kind of practical earthly spirituality. These often startling encounters with animals, birds, and other humans propose a way of living which recognises the earth as home to many different consciousnesses -- and a means of authentic engagement with 'this, the only world'. Together they form one of the most powerful poetic statements of recent years.