The Overhaul by Kathleen Jamie PBS autumn recommendations The Observer

The Observer

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New and Selected Poems does not replace the earlier collections

’ – Nicholas Crane

The Overhaul by Kathleen Jamie PBS autumn recommendations The ObserverThe Overhaul is Kathleen Jamies first collection since the award winning The Tree House, and it broadens her poetic range considerably. The Overhaul continues Jamies 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