The Tree House

About this book

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 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 recognizes 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.