The Worrying Rose by Katharine Towers #Sappho its prose origins in The

its prose origins in The Citizen and continuation in Then Hallucinations

They often unpick fleeting moments

'An intoxicating mixture of poetry and prose

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

her verses are a playful yet poignant meditation on identity

The Worrying Rose by Katharine Towers #Sappho its prose origins in 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