Synopsis
Oaks 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 Woolf’s 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...
Details
25 November 202180 pages
9781529078435Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Inventive, capacious and full of the surprises witnessed only by the truly observant, Oak is an arboreous atlas for our ageSasha Dugdale, author of Deformations
In Oak, the poet's life is equal to the tree's, and the two meet in delicate reflection on the page. Like the acorn it begins with, this poem is a plucky epicRachel Genn, author of What You Could Have Won
Oak is the most beautiful thing. A long poem at once fragmentary and whole, with all the sophistication of folklore and all the play of true poetry. Katherine Towers is one of the most original and gifted poets now writing. Her brilliant book is something no other could do, “an outburst of words” so old and English and fresh.Conor O'Callaghan, author of Nothing on Earth
