num_pages: 64
description: Winner of the 2012 Costa Poetry Award the latest collection by Kathleen Jamie the leading Scottish poet of her generation (The Sunday Times)See when it all unravelsthe entire projectreduced to threads of moss fleeing a norwester;dyou ever imagine chasing just one strand letting it lead youto an unsung cleft in a rock a place you could take todig yourself inbut what are the chances of that? Of the birdsfew remain all winter; half a dozen wadersmediate between sea and shore that space confirmeddont laughby your own work. from MaterialsThe Overhaul continues Kathleen Jamies lyric inquiry 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 poetry is earthy and rigorous her language at once elemental and tender. The Overhaul is a midlife book of repair restitution and ultimately hopeof the wisest and most worldly kind.
language: English
title: The Overhaul: Poems
publisher: Graywolf Press