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Poetic exploration of life's overlooked beauty.
Kathleen Jamie's "The Overhaul" might just be the literary pause you need. Her poetry delves into the subtleties of life that we often miss in our daily hustle. With tender language and an elemental touch, Jamie invites you into a world where birds, rivers, and personal introspection all play a part in understanding how to live meaningfully. If you're seeking a collection that offers a sense of hope and repair, this could be a nourishing read for your soul.
- Costa Book Award for Poetry (2012)
- T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry Nominee (2012)
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The Overhaul
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ISBN: 9781447202042
Authors:
Kathleen Jamie
Publisher: Picador
Date of Publication: 2012-10-11
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.92
(rated by 322 readers)
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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.
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Poetic exploration of life's overlooked beauty.
Kathleen Jamie's "The Overhaul" might just be the literary pause you need. Her poetry delves into the subtleties of life that we often miss in our daily hustle. With tender language and an elemental touch, Jamie invites you into a world where birds, rivers, and personal introspection all play a part in understanding how to live meaningfully. If you're seeking a collection that offers a sense of hope and repair, this could be a nourishing read for your soul.
- Costa Book Award for Poetry (2012)
- T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry Nominee (2012)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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