Growlery
“Growlery” by Katherine Horrex is a poetry collection published by Carcanet Press, Limited in 2020, featuring 54 pages in English. This debut work conjures a vivid landscape marked by themes of flooded villages, broken ankles, and the complexities of ovarian health, all set against a backdrop of civic tensions. Horrex explores the nuanced interplay between urban and rural environments, as well as the relationship between humanity and nature, presenting a world where Brexit transforms into a city with streets that seem to wear their history like grafted skin.
Readers will find that “Growlery” delves into the disarray of contemporary life, revealing the fragility of societal order through evocative imagery and poignant reflections. The collection draws inspiration from Dickens’ concept of the ‘growlery,’ reinterpreting it to examine internal spaces in a modern context that feels both interconnected and fragmented. Horrex’s work invites contemplation on the ramshackle nature of existence, as urban foundations give way to deeper truths, making this collection a significant contribution to contemporary poetry.
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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.
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