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Growlery
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- Book Synopsis
- Highly commended for the Forward Prizes 2021 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.
- About The Author
- 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.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781784109899
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Carcanet Poetry, (27 August 2020)
- Number of Pages
- 64
- Weight
- 96 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 216 x 135 x 6 mm
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