The Worrying Rose by Katharine Towers Skylark Publications to an apartment in New

to an apartment in New York

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

as well as how our world can so often feel parched of simple kindnesses

for the elemental

including interviews with the author and the illustrator

The Worrying Rose by Katharine Towers Skylark Publications to an apartment in NewThreaded 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