The Floating Man

Katharine Towers

The Floating Man

Katharine Towers has won the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize 2011 for her first collection, The Floating Man.

 

paul chaisty
paul chaisty commented
Thursday 5th Apr 2012 03:40
Dear Katharine i came across your book, very warmest congratulations Paul Chaisty
Sarah Blake
 

Picador poets Katharine Towers and Rachael Boast are reading at Bristol's Arnolfini on Friday 16th September along with esteemed poet Douglas Dunn. Click through for full details.



Katharine Towers has been shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry for her collection The Floating Man

JaneAspinall
JaneAspinall commented
Friday 25th Mar 2011 12:52
Good Luck Kathy ! I love the book. I go back to it and love its sounds and the gentle way it gets under my skin. I see you are on the Wordsworth Trust reading list - well deserved - looking forward to seeing and hearing more of your work. Have you read Kei Miller ? I heard him last night - he is fab. Fingers crossed for the prize for you. Jane Aspinall
Sarah Blake
 

The poems were written over a period of about five years. I listened to lots of music and we moved to a house in the middle of nowhere. I think you can tell that from reading the poems. But that's enough about me.

Sam Humphreys
 

Katharine Towers shares some of the ideas behind a poem from her collection The Floating Man.

Stephen Iliffe
Stephen Iliffe commented
Wednesday 8th Dec 2010 12:06
Dear Katharine, I also came across your work for the first time while travelling on the Circle Line London Undeground; I was so uplifted by The Way We Are that I quickly took a photo of it before getting off at Edgeware Road. Back home, I ordered the book and look forward to reading more. I also edited the photo to express what Poems on the Underground means to me as a commuter. You can see it here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stepheniliffe/5235211113/ Best wishes, Stephen
Stephen Iliffe
Stephen Iliffe commented
Tuesday 7th Dec 2010 11:47
Dear Katharine, I also came across your work for the first time while travelling on the Circle Line London Undeground; I was so uplifted by The Way We Are that I quickly took a photo of it before getting off at Edgeware Road. Back home, I ordered the book and look forward to reading more. I also edited the photo to express what Poems on the Underground means to me as a commuter. You can see it here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stepheniliffe/5235211113/ Best wishes, Stephen