Katharine Towers is a British poet. She has published one poetry

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and three poetry collections. Towers is the recipient of numerous awards, including the

Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney (; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Centre for Poetry Prize for her first poetry collection, ''The Floating Man'', and was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize for her second collection, ''The Remedies'.

Biography

Katharine Towers was born in

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in 1961. She studied

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at St. Hilda's College, Oxford. In 2007, she obtained an MA in

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. Towers's

, ''Slow Time'', was published in 2005, by Mews Press. Her first poetry collection, ''The Floating Man'', Picador Books, was published in 2010. Towers won the

Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney (; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Centre for Poetry Prize for her work. ''The Floating Man'' was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry in 2010 and the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize in 2011 Towers's second poetry collection, ''The Remedies'', Picador Books, was published in 2016. It was shortlisted for the

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in 2016. Towers's work has been published in various magazines and anthologies, including ''The Guardian'' and ''The Forward Book of Poetry 2017''. Towers was the poet in residence at the

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in 2016. She lives in the

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with her husband and two children.

Selected publications

*''The Floating Man'', Picador Books, (2010) *''The Remedies '', Picador Books, (2016) * The Violin Forest appenStance

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* Oak

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(imprint) Picador Books, (2021)

Awards

* (2016) Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize for ''The Remedies'' * (2011) Awarded the

Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney (; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Centre for Poetry Prize for ''The Floating Man * (2011) Shortlisted for the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize for ''The Floating Man''. * (2010) Shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry for ''The Floating Man''.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Towers, Katharine 1961 births Living people Alumni of Newcastle University Alumni of St Hilda's College, Oxford 21st-century British women writers 21st-century British poets Poets from London