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The Overhaul

The Overhaul

by KathleenJamie (Author)

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    Paperback 2012

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Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 64
 Edition: Main Market
 Publisher: Picador
Published: 11 Oct 2012
ISBN 10: 144720204X
ISBN 13: 9781447202042
Book Overview: The Overhaul is Kathleen Jamie's first collection since the award-winning The Tree House.Winner of the Costa Poetry Award 2012
 Prizes: Winner of Costa Poetry Award 2012. Shortlisted for Scottish Book of the Year Award 2013 and T S Eliot Prize 2013.

Media Reviews
' 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
Author Bio
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. Her most recent collection, The Overhaul, was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2012 and won the Costa Poetry Award 2012. Kathleen Jamie's non-fiction books include the highly regarded Findings and Sightlines. She is Chair of Creative Writing at Stirling University, and lives with her family in Fife.