Towers, Katharine
Oak
- ISBN 13:
- 9781529078428
- author:
- Towers, Katharine
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Picador
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2022
- Pages:
- 112
- Dimensions:
- 19.7 x 15.3 x 1 centimetres (0.1
- Genre:
- Poetry, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Toys,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Oaks have been our companions for millennia, their slow lives demanding careful consideration. In her new sequence of poems, Katharine Towers accompanies the oak from acorn to grave, and into its afterlife.
Playful, lyric and lucid, Oak is shot through with an ecocritical awareness that renders it utterly contemporary. Towers' precise eye allows us to enter into the life of the tree, and the birds and insects and plants it hosts; we see how its seven ages echo and rhyme with our own.
Through imaginative voicing, Oak accomplishes the most important work of the nature poem: to take the reader out of themselves, and into the larger world they also inhabit.
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