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ISBN: 978-1-916760-48-6

Price: £11.99

Publication date: 17^th September 2026

Format: Paperback / eBook

Territories: World

Extent: 72pp

DCF: Poetry Collections

Cover artwork by Anna Steinberg

Mindset Mindrise pirouettes through questions about the reach, foibles and sanctity of the human mind at a time when its capacities are being outsourced into AI technologies of increasing sophistication. Katie Griffiths’ second collection invokes different flavours of thinking; tech bros are set alongside the domestic feminine, rational points of view rub against unrestricted imagination and poems flirt with the possibility that we are ceding the territory of the mind.

Praise for Mindset Mindrise

‘In the intimate dance between artificial and human intelligence, Mindset Mindrise shows us what happens when Tech starts to take the lead. Deftly stepping between the confessional and the elegiac, Katie Griffiths finally gives poetry a cool, coherent and inspiring role in the most important debate of our time: the discussion around consciousness itself.’ - Mark Fiddes

‘In this enthralling and expansive collection, Katie Griffiths divines our capacity to resist the insidious, seductive promise of AI. Acknowledging its complicated attraction, she mounts a fierce defence of our embodied minds in viscerally precise language, irrepressibly inventive and alive to etymology and translation. Her poems ‘make an incision and voilà // the brain opens like a museum.’ An invitation to consider how to protect the borders of the self, and a call to arms, Mindset Mindrise is essential reading.’ – Fiona Larkin

‘In this Inferno for our times, a Twenty-First Century psyche in meltdown finds itself unwillingly and sometimes unwittingly collaborating with the machine in a dystopian present. Through a succession of tightly crafted philosophical explorations, thought and feeling are distorted and refracted through language. Despairing, frenzied, interrogative and furious by turns, these poems nevertheless demonstrate redemption and even hope through their poetic diction in a rounded, risk-taking form of self-expression that is stubbornly and uniquely human.’- Jacqueline Saphra

‘The perfect book for our times. Thought-provoking and mordantly witty, Mindset Mindrise explores how humanity's use of AI might threaten our intelligence, reasoning and creativity. From poignant messages directed at the technology to philosophical debates between the narrator and TechBro, Katie Griffiths dazzles with inventive vocabulary and stunning imagery. Yet she offers no easy answers: which mind will set — or rise?’ - Michelle Penn

About the author:

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.