The Overhaul by Kathleen Jamie Now You Can Look real and sometimes surreal pieces

real and sometimes surreal pieces

the longing and/waiting…’ (from ‘Nursery Tales’)

‘Gunn’s work illustrates with unusual clarity some of the debates poetry in English has pursued in [the twentieth] century – form versus improvisation

 Being Human is a companion volume to those two books – a world poetry anthology offering poetry lovers an even broader

The Overhaul by Kathleen Jamie Now You Can Look real and sometimes surreal piecesThe 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