The Worrying Rose by Katharine Towers Skylark Publications and then it allows the

and then it allows the words themselves to glide up and out in all their hushed and controlled beauty' - Colm Tóibín

including interviews with the author and the illustrator

this important collection reveals unsung people and events from our past to recognize the intrinsic impact they've had on Britain today

lived experience and language

for the elemental

The Worrying Rose by Katharine Towers Skylark Publications and then it allows theThreaded 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 Virginia Woolf, Errollyn Wallen and Maggi Hambling