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

Katie Griffiths grew up in Ottawa, Canada, in a family originally from Northern Ireland. She is author of The Attitudes (Nine Arches Press), the prize-winning pamphlet My Shrink is Pregnant (Live Canon), and was also published in Primers Volume One (Nine Arches Press). In 2024 she won the Gregory O'Donoghue International Poetry Prize with 'Before I stillbirthed the birch', a poem also chosen for the 50th anniversary edition of the Pushcart Prize Anthology. She was awarded second prize in 2018's National Poetry Competition with 'Do not indulge indigo'. A member of Red Door Poets, Katie is also a singer-songwriter, formerly in the band A Woman in Goggles and at present part of the harmony group Fells and Such. She regularly mentors, leads poetry workshops and, in the Riverhouse Barn Arts Centre in Walton-on-Thames, currently runs monthly sessions of live poetry readings.

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.