The Attitudes

Katie Griffiths

• Editorial: Nine Arches Press
• Año: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781913437121
• Categoría: Letteratura
• Categoría: Poesia

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

Índice

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Epigraph
• And in our idleness we compare hands
• Dough must not not enter the body
• The Attitudes
• Moonbather
• Divine non-intervention
• Eternal Life: The Case for Plastic
• Minor chords - their place in the pecking order
• God’s view of smoking
• Nine sort-of truths*
• #PowerToPardonMyself
• you are bible and not much thumbed
• Scargazer
• In these weeks after you have died
• The Priest and I Watch the Solar Eclipse Through the Safety of a Kitchen Colander
• Purgatory
• Door, my tribe
• I kiss the hinges of the door (just in case)
• Relative Values - Me and Consciousness
• Mes saints sans cafetières
• Dough must not not enter the body
• Earthmonger
• to know you are female does not help
• A Voltage of Ghosts
• god is my feeder my bearer of trays
• The winter inside my mother
• snow is mutiny
• My best canvas
• Up Yours, Wittenberg!
• She withholds her babies
• Soulscammer
• Dough must not not enter the body
• How the body holds
• One out of every eight visitors attends the wrong hospital deathbed
• Minus five minutes. Big Bang (sleeves rolled up) at the negotiating table
• Tambourine
• Waterstabber
• #PowerToPardonMyself 2
• Dough must not not enter the body
• ‘The light descends from nowhere’
• The tenants of faith
• Do not indulge indigo
• How to manifest anything you want - Storyboard 12
• Prayer workshop
• I once sat plum inside a ghost
• Dough must not not enter the body
• Our Lady of Deplorable Lapses
• How old and sure the vapours are
• That ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing
• Rose window
• The Platitudes
• Dough must not not enter the body
• guardian angle
• Baddendum
• Biography
• S’Index
• Additional notes on characters
• Notes
• Acknowledgements
• About the author