Oak by Katharine Towers Layli Long Soldier Due out 18/1/18

Due out 18/1/18

Ramona Herdman

and gave it cool

and like all great ensembles

 by which she presents compelling arguments with astonishing feats of alliteration

Oak by Katharine Towers Layli Long Soldier Due out 18/1/18Oaks are some of our oldest companions, and have been rooted in human imagination and language for millennia. Their great, slow lives have always demanded our careful consideration (indeed Virginia Woolfs Orlando took 300 years over their own quercian epic). Katharine Towers new sequence of poems accompanies the oak from acorn to grave, and into its afterlife; playful, lyric and lucid, Oak is also shot through with an ecocritical awareness that