{"title":"Books by Katharine Towers","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781509813056","title":"The Remedies","description":"\u003cp\u003eKatharine Towers' second collection is a book of small wonders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom a house drowning in roses to crickets on an August day, from Nerval's lobster to the surrealism of flower remedies, these poems explore the fragility of our relationship with the natural world. Towers also shows us what that relationship can aspire to be: each poem attunes us to another aspect of that world, and shows what strange connections might be revealed when we properly attend to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Remedies \u003c\/i\u003eis a lyric, unforgettable collection which offers just the spiritual assuagement its title promises, and shows Towers emerging as a major poetic talent.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56302579351925,"sku":"9781509813056","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781509813056_115fab26-f8a4-440f-bcd3-eb232010755c.jpg?v=1786021701"},{"product_id":"9781529078428","title":"Oak","description":"Oaks are some of our oldest companions, and have been rooted in human imagination and language for millennia. Their great, slow lives have always demanded our careful consideration (indeed Virginia Woolf’s \u003ci\u003eOrlando\u003c\/i\u003e took 300 years over their own quercian epic). Katharine Towers’ new sequence of poems accompanies the oak from acorn to grave, and into its afterlife; playful, lyric and lucid, \u003ci\u003eOak\u003c\/i\u003e is also shot through with an ecocritical awareness that renders it utterly contemporary. Towers’ precise eye and gift for sharp comparison allows us to enter into the life of the tree, and the birds and insects and plants it hosts; it shows how its seven ages echo and rhyme with our own, and how, by implication, we may also be tied to the same cycle of death and renewal. \u003ci\u003eOak\u003c\/i\u003e wins its power through an extraordinary act of imaginative voicing, and accomplishes the most important work of the nature poem: to take the reader out of themselves, and into the larger world they also inhabit.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56312569266549,"sku":"9781529078428","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781529078428_028a54a5-fab0-4712-a249-76d2686a229c.jpg?v=1786022429"},{"product_id":"9781035087945","title":"The Worrying Rose","description":"\u003cp\u003eKatharine Towers has long been widely acclaimed for the intricate musicality of her poems and for their almost spiritual attentiveness to the natural world. In \u003ci\u003eThe Worrying Rose\u003c\/i\u003e, her fourth collection, Towers invokes the radical act of being still in a world that seems to be dizzyingly out of control. Unfolding from Samuel Barber’s \u003ci\u003eHermit Songs\u003c\/i\u003e cycle – influenced in turn by the anonymous writings of early Irish scribes and anchorites – \u003ci\u003eThe Worrying Rose\u003c\/i\u003e distils Towers’ thinking about women, creativity and solitude: nuns and female hermits sit alongside the pioneering genius of Ada Lovelace, while the voices of such writers and artists as Nan Shepherd and Maggi Hambling are harnessed to explore the creative state of being alone. Just as the speaker in one of these poems goes ‘into the woods and closes the door’, readers of Katharine Towers’ exquisitely phrased and meditative collection will find themselves in a song-filled, resonant space.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Worrying Rose \u003c\/i\u003eexemplifies Katharine Towers’ extraordinary musical intelligence, and attests to an almost spiritual attentiveness to the natural world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘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’ \u003c\/b\u003e– \u003cb\u003eConor O’Callaghan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368479306101,"sku":"9781035087945","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781035087945_08576c8a-38b9-46d2-8f2d-822fd375b5d0.jpg?v=1786017086"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-katharine-towers.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}