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Battery Rocks
Battery Rocks is a meditation on nature, risk, swimming and the sea. Battery Rocks is the winner of the Arthur Welton Award from the Society of Authors and it contains the poem 'in the kelp forest', which won the Keats-Shelley Prize for Poetry. Battery Rocks was recently featured on BBC Radio 4's Open Country.
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Published July 8, 2024
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Katrina Naomi
16 books15 followersKatrina Naomi is a poet and performer. She is the winner of the Keats-Shelley Prize for Poetry.
'Battery Rocks' has won the Arthur Welton Award from the Society of Authors. Battery Rocks was published in July 2024. It is a meditation on nature, risk, swimming and the sea. The new collection includes 'in the kelp forest', which won the Keats-Shelley Prize. Battery Rocks recently featured on BBC Radio 4's Open Country.
Katrina's third full collection, 'Wild Persistence' (Seren, 2020) received an Authors' Foundation Award. Katrina's poetry has appeared on Poems on the Underground, BBC Radio 4's 'Front Row' and 'Poetry Please', and on BBC TV 'Spotlight'.
'Same But Different', Katrina's poetic collaboration with Helen Mort (Hazel Press 2021), won a Saboteur Award.
Typhoon Etiquette', a Japanese-themed pamphlet was published by Verve Poetry Press in 2019, after an Arts Council travel award.
Katrina's second collection, 'The Way the Crocodile Taught Me', (Seren, 2016) was chosen as one of Foyles Bookshop's #FoylesFive for poetry. Her poem 'The Bicycle' was highly commended in the 2017 Forward Prize for Poetry.
In 2018, Katrina was commissioned by the BBC to write a poem 'Countrywoman' for National Poetry Day.
Katrina has been poet-in-residence at the Arnolfini International Centre for the Arts in Bristol, at Gladstone's Library in N Wales, and at the Leach Pottery in St Ives. She was the first writer-in-residence at the Bronte Parsonage Museum in Yorkshire.
Katrina's poetry has appeared in ‘The TLS’, ‘The Poetry Review’, ‘The Spectator’ and 'Modern Poetry in Translation'.
Her 2015 pamphlet 'Hooligans', (Rack Press), was inspired by the Suffragettes, and written while she was writer-in-Residence at the Gladstone's Library.
She received a PhD in Creative Writing from Goldsmiths in 2014. In 2015 she became a post-doctoral researcher at Goldsmiths and was made a Hawthornden Fellow.
Katrina’s first full collection, 'The Girl with the Cactus Handshake', (Templar Poetry, 2009) was shortlisted for the London New Poetry Award. Katrina won the Templar Poetry Competition with her pamphlet 'Lunch at the Elephant & Castle' (2008).
She is a tutor for Arvon, the Poetry School and Ty Newydd and runs poetry surgeries for the Poetry Society.
Katrina lives in Cornwall.
'Battery Rocks' has won the Arthur Welton Award from the Society of Authors. Battery Rocks was published in July 2024. It is a meditation on nature, risk, swimming and the sea. The new collection includes 'in the kelp forest', which won the Keats-Shelley Prize. Battery Rocks recently featured on BBC Radio 4's Open Country.
Katrina's third full collection, 'Wild Persistence' (Seren, 2020) received an Authors' Foundation Award. Katrina's poetry has appeared on Poems on the Underground, BBC Radio 4's 'Front Row' and 'Poetry Please', and on BBC TV 'Spotlight'.
'Same But Different', Katrina's poetic collaboration with Helen Mort (Hazel Press 2021), won a Saboteur Award.
Typhoon Etiquette', a Japanese-themed pamphlet was published by Verve Poetry Press in 2019, after an Arts Council travel award.
Katrina's second collection, 'The Way the Crocodile Taught Me', (Seren, 2016) was chosen as one of Foyles Bookshop's #FoylesFive for poetry. Her poem 'The Bicycle' was highly commended in the 2017 Forward Prize for Poetry.
In 2018, Katrina was commissioned by the BBC to write a poem 'Countrywoman' for National Poetry Day.
Katrina has been poet-in-residence at the Arnolfini International Centre for the Arts in Bristol, at Gladstone's Library in N Wales, and at the Leach Pottery in St Ives. She was the first writer-in-residence at the Bronte Parsonage Museum in Yorkshire.
Katrina's poetry has appeared in ‘The TLS’, ‘The Poetry Review’, ‘The Spectator’ and 'Modern Poetry in Translation'.
Her 2015 pamphlet 'Hooligans', (Rack Press), was inspired by the Suffragettes, and written while she was writer-in-Residence at the Gladstone's Library.
She received a PhD in Creative Writing from Goldsmiths in 2014. In 2015 she became a post-doctoral researcher at Goldsmiths and was made a Hawthornden Fellow.
Katrina’s first full collection, 'The Girl with the Cactus Handshake', (Templar Poetry, 2009) was shortlisted for the London New Poetry Award. Katrina won the Templar Poetry Competition with her pamphlet 'Lunch at the Elephant & Castle' (2008).
She is a tutor for Arvon, the Poetry School and Ty Newydd and runs poetry surgeries for the Poetry Society.
Katrina lives in Cornwall.
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July 24, 2024
But sunrise, I'll be waiting for you, having
shifted my day around your tides;
my primitivism seduced - loving
how you run, spuming, towards me.
I've really savoured this book—it feels much deeper, more multi-layered than Naomi's earlier work. It rewards slow reading, the poems reveal themselves over time and are full of surprises. I've loved immersing myself in the waves, Cornish language, poetry and words. The golden shovels are phenomenal!!
shifted my day around your tides;
my primitivism seduced - loving
how you run, spuming, towards me.
I've really savoured this book—it feels much deeper, more multi-layered than Naomi's earlier work. It rewards slow reading, the poems reveal themselves over time and are full of surprises. I've loved immersing myself in the waves, Cornish language, poetry and words. The golden shovels are phenomenal!!
December 25, 2024
I read this in Cornwall, with the poet's seas in my sightline, the poet's littoral so different to my own, but so deeply, wildly wondrous. Battery Rocks will always be a core part of how I welcomed Cornwall into my heart, its poems as bright and unflagging and maritime as a flag hoisted high above old wreckages.
November 22, 2024
Another stunning collection from one of my favourite poets.
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