Book description
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.
