{"product_id":"the-worrying-rose-paperback","title":"The Worrying Rose - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKatharine Towers\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKatharine Towers was born in London and now lives in Derbyshire with her family. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Worrying Rose\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Floating Man\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize, and \u003ci\u003eThe Remedies\u003c\/i\u003e, shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and an \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e Poetry Book of the Month. Her third collection, \u003ci\u003eOak\u003c\/i\u003e, was a Poetry Book of the Month in \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e. Towers' pamphlet \u003ci\u003elet him bring a shrubbe\u003c\/i\u003e explores the life and work of the twentieth-century English composer Gerald Finzi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 7.7 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54090527932723,"sku":"9781035087945","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/gkiXa4E0ZZ9781035087945.webp?v=1789606286","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-worrying-rose-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}