Kathleen Jamie is one of Britain's leading poets and this book is a selection from her early collections. She is the winner of several awards, including the Somerset Maugham award.

Features the nature and landscapes of Scotland as well as an incisive sense of our domestic realities.

'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 threaten.

In her extraordinary new collection, Kathleen Jamie examines her native Scotland a country at once wild and contained, rural and urban and her place within it. In the author's own words: "2014 was a year of tremendous energy in my native Scotland, and knowing I wanted to embrace that energy and participate in my own way, I resolved to write a poem a week, and follow the cycle of the year." The poems also venture into childhood and family memory and look to ahead to the future. "The Bonniest Companie "is visionary response to a year shaped and charged by both local and global forces, and will...

A timely career retrospective including material from Kathleen Jamie's earlier collections and featuring writing on her recurrent themes of nature, language, and human and animal consciousness.

Collective Winner of the 2019 Highland Book Prize Under the ravishing light of an Alaskan sky, objects are spilling from the thawing tundra linking a Yup'ik village to its hunter-gatherer past. In the shifting sand dunes of a Scottish shoreline, impressively preserved hearths and homes of Neolithic farmers are uncovered. In a grandmother's disordered mind, memories surface of a long-ago mining accident and a 'mither who was kind'. For this luminous new essay collection, acclaimed author Kathleen Jamie visits archaeological sites and mines her own memories - of her grandparents, of...