Oak by Katharine Towers Swimming Pool The Sarajevo rose of the

The Sarajevo rose of the book’s title – a mortar crater filled with red resin

He was by then very near to mental collapse

and feelings

fact as well as speculation

myth and magic

Oak by Katharine Towers Swimming Pool The Sarajevo rose of theOaks 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 Woolfs 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 lucid, Oak is also shot through with an ecocritical awareness that