About Kathleen Jamie's Work

For several years now, Kathleen Jamie's work has addressed two principal concerns: how we negotiate with the natural world, and how we should define our conduct within family and society.

In The Tree House, Jamie argues — as Burns did before her — for an engagement of the whole being through a kind of practical earthly spirituality.

These often startling encounters with animals, birds, and other humans propose a way of living which recognises the earth as home to many different consciousnesses — and a means of authentic engagement with this, the only world. Together they form one of the most powerful poetic statements of recent years.