Book description
For 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.
Kathleen Jamie, one of the Britain's foremost poets, was born in
Scotland in 1962. She has published four collections of poetry --
Black Spiders (1982), The Way We Live (1987), The Queen of Sheba
(1994) and Jizzen (published by Picador 1999) -- and a travel book,
The Golden Peak: travels in Northern Pakistan (1992). She has received
various honours, including the Somerset Maugham (1994) and Geoffrey
Faber Memorial (1996, 2000) awards, and the Forward Prize for Best
Individual Poem (1996). She lives in north Fife, Scotland, with her
young family.
