Katie Griffiths' debut poetry collection, The Attitudes is a search for trust and faith - in the body, in the mind, in all those things we seek to hold on to but cannot. Here, we intimately encounter mortality and tread the balance between visceral wisdom and the intellect, between fragile, fallible bodies, and the mind's hold over them, between the bright spaces and the haunted ones.

In poems that are bold, effervescent, frequently playful, Griffiths approaches serious subjects - eating disorders, ageing, grieving - with a precise and inventive lyricism. The Attitudes compiles multitudes, with layer upon layer of counterpoints, juxtaposing and exploring the unresolvable, all the while seeking to move towards a place of deeper reflection and stillness away from the noise and distraction of the daily business of being alive. An astute and accomplished book which transforms

About the Author
Katie Griffiths grew up in Ottawa, Canada, in a family originally from Northern Ireland. In 2019 she was awarded second prize in the National Poetry Competition with 'Do not indulge indigo' and had the pleasure of reading her own Spanish translation of the poem at the Cosmopoetica festival in Cordoba, Spain. Her pamphlet My Shrink is Pregnant (illustrated by Anna Steinberg) was a winner in the Live Canon pamphlet competition. In 2016 she was published in Primers Volume One by Nine Arches Press. A member of Malika's Poetry Kitchen and Red Door Poets, Katie is also singer-songwriter in the band A Woman in Goggles.


Book Information
ISBN 9781913437114
Author Katie Griffiths
Format Paperback
Page Count 72
Imprint Nine Arches Press
Publisher Nine Arches Press