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Floating Man
Katharine Towers
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Description for Floating Man
Paperback. Longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 1. Weight in Grams: 90.
Appropriately for a book haunted by music, Katharine Towers’ poems exhibit an almost pianistic sense of timing, touch and tone. In The Floating Man, Towers writes about weight and weightlessness, presence and absence, the body in space, and our oblique relationship with the natural world, always with a wonderful sense of compositional balance; she is expert at registering the huge emotional shifts effected by the smallest things, whether the scent of apples, the slant of the light, or the grace-notes of memory. Music expresses the things we cannot say, but Towers recruits its power to bring the beyond-words into the ... Read more
Appropriately for a book haunted by music, Katharine Towers’ poems exhibit an almost pianistic sense of timing, touch and tone. In The Floating Man, Towers writes about weight and weightlessness, presence and absence, the body in space, and our oblique relationship with the natural world, always with a wonderful sense of compositional balance; she is expert at registering the huge emotional shifts effected by the smallest things, whether the scent of apples, the slant of the light, or the grace-notes of memory. Music expresses the things we cannot say, but Towers recruits its power to bring the beyond-words into the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Picador
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780330511599
SKU
V9780330511599
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99-50
About Katharine Towers
Katharine Towers was born in London in 1961 and read Modern Languages at St. Hilda’s College, Oxford. She has an MA in Writing from Newcastle University. Her pamphlet ‘Slow Time’ was published by Mews Press in 2005 and her poems have appeared in publications including Mslexia and The North. She lives in the Peak District with her husband and two ... Read more
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