The Tree House - Picador Poetry Author:Kathleen Jamie For several years now, Kathleen Jamies 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 arguesas Burns did before herfor an engagement of the whole being through a kind of practical earthly spirituality. These often startlin... more »g encounters with animals, birds, and other humans propose a way of living which recognises the earth as home to many different consciousnessesand a means of authentic engagement with this, the only world. Together they form one of the most powerful poetic statements of recent years.« less