Oak by Katharine Towers Swimming Pool that changes perspective with each

that changes perspective with each fresh look

of the best and most passionate aspirations' – David Constantine

These ten much-loved poems are gathered together for the first time in this compendium to make a perfect gift for old friends celebrating a decade’s tradition or those experiencing the magic of Duffy’s festive verse for the first time

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The Sarajevo rose of the book’s title – a mortar crater filled with red resin

Oak by Katharine Towers Swimming Pool that changes perspective with eachOaks 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