{"id":918,"date":"2024-11-25T19:53:18","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T19:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/person\/katharine-towers\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T14:53:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T13:53:32","slug":"katharine-towers","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/katharine-towers\/","title":{"rendered":"Katharine Towers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katharine Towers was born in London and read Modern Languages at St Hilda\u2019s College, Oxford. Her first collection, <em>The Floating Man<\/em> (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 <em>Guardian<\/em> First Book Award. Her second, <em>The Remedies <\/em>(Picador, 2016) was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Katharine\u2019s poems have appeared in <em>The Guardian<\/em>, <em>The <\/em><em>Poetry Review<\/em>, <em>Poetry London<\/em> and <em>The North<\/em>. 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 <em>The Violin Forest<\/em> (HappenStance Press, 2019), <em>let him bring a shrubbe<\/em> (The Maker\u2019s Press, 2023) and her third full collection <em>Oak<\/em> (Picador, 2021).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.katharinetowers.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.katharinetowers.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katharine Towers was born in London and read Modern Languages at St Hilda\u2019s 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":919,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-918","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}