The Worrying Rose by Katharine Towers #Sappho This little book offers everyone

This little book offers everyone one of the oldest of all remedies for stress: the reading of poetry

and not shying away from the effects of (in)humanity on our environment

‘McIlfatrick-Ksenofontov’s translations capture the barely capturable essence of Doris Kareva’s poems which

its prose origins in The Citizen and continuation in Then Hallucinations

A house can be a home

The Worrying Rose by Katharine Towers #Sappho This little book offers everyoneThreaded 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