Kathleen Jamie

The Overhaul

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Produktbeschreibung

The Overhaul is Kathleen Jamieà â â s first collection since the award-winning The Tree House. Winner of the Costa Poetry Award 2012

Produktdetails

• Picador Poetry
• Verlag: Macmillan Publishers International
• Main Market Ed.
• Seitenzahl: 64
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahren
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 88g
• ISBN-13: 9781447202042
• ISBN-10: 144720204X
• Artikelnr.: 35931968

Autorenporträt

Kathleen Jamie was born in the west of Scotland in 1962. Her poetry collection The Tree House (Picador, 2004), won both the Forward Prize and the Scottish Book of the Year Award. Mr and Mrs Scotland are Dead was shortlisted for the 2003 International Griffin Prize. Her most recent collection, The Overhaul, was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2012 and won the Costa Poetry Award 2012. Kathleen Jamie's non-fiction books include the highly regarded Findings and Sightlines. She is Chair of Creative Writing at Stirling University, and lives with her family in Fife.

Rezensionen

' a perfect match for the primal Scottish landscapes she evokes and against which she explores human relationships . . . beautifully cadenced . . . utterly convincing . . . unquestionably a fine poet . . . she achieves a beautifully balanced classical simplicity.' The North magazine