The Attitudes – Book Launch
Thursday 22nd April 2021
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 minds hold over them, between the bright spaces and the haunted ones.
”Katie Griffiths brings a mercurial inventiveness to the serious concerns at her poetry's core - belief, selfhood and the soul. Applying pressure to language, tilting it, these poems frequently astonish. They empower us and invite us to live more enquiringly."
Moniza Alvi
”All precision-tooled images, sleek lines, and fleets of fancies, fond and less so, Katie Griffiths’s The Attitudes is a book to cherish. From top to toe, it has sword-tip-sharp insight, muscular grace, and an invigorating sense of wonder, underpinned by an effortless musicality. These poems strike a pose, daring you not to fall in love with them."
Rishi Dastidar
English