The Tree House

An essential new collection from one of Picador''s leading poets 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.