Katrina Naomi is een dichteres die de ingewikkelde verbanden tussen mens en natuur onderzoekt, vaak met onverwachte en suggestieve beelden. Haar werk wordt gekenmerkt door een sterk visueel element en een diepgaande verkenning van menselijke emoties. Naomi richt haar schrijven op thema's die resoneren met het hedendaagse leven, terwijl ze inspiratie put uit geschiedenis en kunst, en zo poëzie creëert die zowel actueel als tijdloos aanvoelt. Haar gedichten zijn verschenen in vooraanstaande Britse radio- en televisieprogramma's en in gerespecteerde literaire tijdschriften.
Katrina Naomi’s poetry collection, Wild Persistence , written after a move from London to Cornwall, considers distance and closeness, and questions how to live. She dissects ‘dualism’ and arrival, sex and dance, a trip to Japan. There is a strong section of poems about the aftermath of an attempted rape. Her voice is convincing and contemporary.
Verve Poetry Press are thrilled that the wonderful Katrina Naomi has asked us to publish the poems that came out of her recent Arts Council supported writing trip to Japan. And a wonderful group of poems they are, that at once depict Japan, its traditions, its customs with great enthusiasm but also a healthy dose of heart-on-sleave puzzlement. Katrina doesn't pretend she is an expert. She is very much an English poet abroad. Also included are Katrina's translations of Haiku by two Japanese masters which have previously been published in MPT magazine. Altogether, this is Katrina trying something new, but with the quality, the wonderful way with words, the earnest grappling with the perceived world that characterises all her work.
'The Way the Crocodile Taught Me', is Katrina Naomi's vibrant, heartfelt and tragi-comic collection of poetry. She reveals a childhood fraught with family dislocation, upsets and even occasional violence, and finds, through her art, moments of grace, humour and redemption.