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Growlery

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ISBN: 978 1 784109 89 9
Categories: 21st Century, British, First Collections, Women
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry
Published: August 2020
216 x 135 mm
64 pages
Publisher: Carcanet Press

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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.

Katherine Horrex was born in the UK and currently lives in Manchester, where she completed a Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Manchester. Growlery is her debut collection. ... read more

'One of the most striking characteristics of Katherine Horrex's poems is the eccentric angle from which their carefully calibrated observations are made: cinematic both in their intimacies and in their occasionally disorienting, zoomed-out distances. She has a visual artist's alert eye for the material detritus of contemporary life and a hand deft enough not to force the inevitable political and environmental conclusions down her readers' throats. The subjects of her poems (inter alia, a millennialâs experience of suburban desertification; Chinese sculpture; the post-industrial landscapes of the north of England; a gynaecological scan; Brexit) may be startlingly contemporary but she approaches them the way an anthropologist of the future might, with the same hallucinatory descriptive clarity and eerie estrangement. If, as Pound asserted, poetry is 'news that stays news' then Katherine Horrex's is unmistakeably the voice of now: uneasy, ironic, apocalyptic.'
Caitriona O'Reilly

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Growlery Katherine Horrex RRP: GBP 10.99 Not Yet Published This title is available to pre-order from Amazon. Paperback ISBN: 978 1 784109 89 9 Categories: 21st Century, British, First Collections, Women Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Published: August 2020 216 x 135 mm 64 pages Publisher: Carcanet Press Spend GBP 15 or more and receive a free Carcanet tote bag. Available internationally while stocks last. Find out more. Description Author Reviews 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. Katherine Horrex was born in the UK and currently lives in Manchester, where she completed a Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Manchester. Growlery is her debut collection. ... read more 'One of the most striking characteristics of Katherine Horrex's poems is the eccentric angle from which their carefully calibrated observations are made: cinematic both in their intimacies and in their occasionally disorienting, zoomed-out distances. She has a visual artist's alert eye for the material detritus of contemporary life and a hand deft enough not to force the inevitable political and environmental conclusions down her readers' throats. The subjects of her poems (inter alia, a millennialâs experience of suburban desertification; Chinese sculpture; the post-industrial landscapes of the north of England; a gynaecological scan; Brexit) may be startlingly contemporary but she approaches them the way an anthropologist of the future might, with the same hallucinatory descriptive clarity and eerie estrangement. If, as Pound asserted, poetry is 'news that stays news' then Katherine Horrex's is unmistakeably the voice of now: uneasy, ironic, apocalyptic.' Caitriona O'Reilly	Share this... Quick Links Jubilee Bundles Carcanet Celebrates 50 Years! Anvil Press Poetry Aspects of Portugal Audio Books Carcanet Classics Carcanet Fiction Carcanet Film Carcanet Poetry FyfieldBooks Lintott Press Little Island Press Lives and Letters OxfordPoets PN Review Sheep Meadow Press The Carcanet Blog Gregory O'Brien: Painting a Poem During the Covid-19 Crisis read more Squid Squad: An Interview read more Songs We Learn From Trees: Chris Beckett read more Carcanet and Covid-19 read more PN Review 252: Editorial read more Happy International Women's Day 2020! read more
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