Katharine Towers

Katharine Towers was born in London and read Modern Languages at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. Her first collection, The Floating Man (Picador Press, 2010), won the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for Poetry, and was shortlisted for both the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and the Ted Hughes Award, as well as being longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. Her second, The Remedies (Picador, 2016) was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Katharine’s poems have appeared in The Guardian, The Poetry Review, Poetry London and The North. She was Poet in Residence at the Cloud Appreciation Society. She lives in the Peak District with her husband and two daughters. Publications since she was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize include The Violin Forest (HappenStance Press, 2019), let him bring a shrubbe (The Maker’s Press, 2023) and her third full collection Oak (Picador, 2021).

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