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Growlery Katherine Horrex

Growlery By Katherine Horrex

Growlery by Katherine Horrex


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Summary

In this debut collection from an exciting new voice and contributor to Carcanet's New Poetries VII, Horrex explores Brexit, austerity, social housing, and our mental health crisis.

Growlery Summary

Growlery by Katherine Horrex

Shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2021. Growlery conjures a place haunted by flooded villages, broken ankles, ovarian health and factories. It dwells on a world of civic tensions, in the twilit zone between city and country, the human and the natural. Here, Brexit is a city with streets 'worn into themselves like grafted skin', corpse flowers bloom in America, and urban foundations crumble into cisterns. Horrex - whose poems found an enthusiastic readership via Carcanet's New Poetries series - unpicks the illusion that order upholds society and reveals the true ramshackle complexion of things. Her debut collection reimagines the 'growlery' of Dickens' Bleak House by looking at the concept of internal space in a twenty-first century which is both connected and disjointed.

Growlery Reviews

'Horrex has an imagination that's both wayward and precise, matched by the way she uses words: every line feels unpredictable yet somehow inevitable. None of her poems sound like anyone else's: things open up when she writes about them. This is more than a matter of skill - it's about the rigour with which this poet sees her feelings and her ideas through into language.' - Patrick McGuinness; 'Katherine Horrex's is unmistakeably the voice of now: uneasy, ironic, apocalyptic.' - Caitriona O'Reilly

About Katherine Horrex

Katherine Horrex has worked as a processing clerk in a bank, a mail sorter, a book reviewer, an assistant editor, and a proof reader of forms filled out by mystery shoppers. She now runs a small business making and selling ceramics, online and at markets. Her poems have appeared in PN Review, Poetry London, the TLS, and others. Growlery is her first collection.

Additional information

GOR010957355
9781784109899
1784109894
Growlery by Katherine Horrex
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Carcanet Press Ltd
20200827
64
Short-listed for The Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2021
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