The Worrying Rose
$27.82
- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
16 June 2026
Summary
Threaded through The Worrying Rose, Katharine Towers’ quiet and meditative fourth collection, are poems referencing Samuel Barber’s Hermit Songs cycle, songs for voice and piano which in turn arose from anonymous texts by early Irish scribes and anchorites. These poems distil Towers’ thinking about women, creativity and solitude: there are nuns and female hermits, alongside writers and artists such as Nan Shepherd and Maggi Hambling whose voices are harnessed by Towers in he…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035087945 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1035087944 |
| Author: | Katharine Towers |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 16 June 2026 |
| Weight: | 146g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 155mm x 8mm |
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Katharine Towers writes with a marvellously gentle wit and a metrical intelligence … Quite how she manages the balancing act between entertainment and something that comes close to a prayer, that catches in your throat, is beyond me * The Observer *Katharine Towers is one of the most original and gifted poets now writing. Her brilliant book is something no other could do, “an outburst of words” so old and English and fresh * Conor O’Callaghan *
About The Author
Katharine Towers
Katharine Towers was born in London and now lives in Derbyshire with her family. She is the author of The Worrying Rose, The Floating Man, winner of the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize, and The Remedies, shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and an Observer Poetry Book of the Month. Her third collection, Oak, was a Poetry Book of the Month in The Guardian. Towers’ pamphlet let him bring a shrubbe explores the life and work of the twentieth-century English composer Gerald Finzi.
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