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.